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posted by cmn32480 on Saturday September 24 2016, @02:39PM   Printer-friendly
from the it's-all-beta-until-it-gets-cancelled dept.

Over a year after releasing a neglected Wi-Fi router, Google is preparing to release a brand new router called Google Wi-Fi:

OnHub-schmonhub: two sources are now telling us that Google will introduce an own-brand Wi-Fi router called Google Wifi, and that the device will cost $129. A source that has proved reliable in the past has told us that the device will be launched alongside Google's Pixel phones, Google Home, and the 4K 'Chromecast Ultra' on October 4th.

Chromecast Ultra could be a good device for installing Kodi on, although it will cost more than previous generations ($69 vs. $35). The device will reportedly have support for high dynamic range (HDR) video.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 24 2016, @05:23PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 24 2016, @05:23PM (#405983)

    At first, I fell for the "come join us, invitation only!" gmail campaign. Cheapest trick in the book: made me feel special,and I thought I was getting disentangled from Microsoft-like monopolies. If only I knew the things to be shoved down the throat.

    Then, I fell for Chrome. Thankfully I sandboxed it and ran a sniffer and got disillusioned fast about how often it phones home and what it is about.

    After that, it was all about smartphones but I was already suspicious of Android. My brother gave me one that had some software preinstalled, and I booted it up without a SIM card to see what was it about. I watched a dozen google apps squirm, others begging, others "warning me" that I *MUST* place a SIM and connect to the network, all prompting me for this and that. I still do not use a smartphone, thankfully I do not need it and hope that I never will.

    And now, Google "offers" a router? The key component to household privacy? Sorry but I must say, go fuck yourself, Google all-seeing eye. No, I do not buy the story of a bunch of garage enterpreneurs that "happened to fill the niche of the market". Do you realize how many resources you need to crawl the net daily? Shove yourself up your own ass, Google, and stay there. You are not wanted.