What happened to Google's Nexus Q?

Several companies have announced Blu-ray players and media streaming boxes for Google's Android-based Google TV TV platform. Sony has its NSZ-GS7 Network Media Player and NSZ-GP9 Blu-ray disc player, Vizio tipped its VBR430 3D Blu-ray player and VAP430 Stream Player -- as well as several Google TV-enabled R Series HDTVs -- and E Fun will provide its Nextbox set-top....

Here’s another quick unboxing video from Google I/O. This time we show you Google’s social streaming media player, the Nexus Q. This is a simple and elegant device that you connect to speakers or directly to your receiver and is controlled by any Android device running the Nexus Q app.

Two years ago, Google’s Vic Gundotra keynoted the company’s 2011 I/O developer conference, and one of the big surprises of the day was the launch of Android@Home, Google’s attempt to corner the home-automation market.

Well this didn’t take long. Just mere days after it was announced, the Nexus Q has already been “modified” to run games. In case you’re not familiar, the Nexus Q is a streaming media player that plays content like music, movies and YouTube videos.

The biggest question mark to come out of Google I/O is the Nexus Q. Trying to describe it to someone is an exercise in awkwardness at the very least. Google desicribes it as a “social streaming media player,” and once you see it working, it kind of makes sense.

Google has made it clear during their I/O Keynote that they are all in on Google+ and are really trying hard to push it to consumers.

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I'm using Ubuntu Server 11.04 on a media server solution at home. This media server streams my music wireless at home through various proctols; DAAP, DLNA etc.

But... I would love to stream my music with the Google Music framework as well - since I have an Android 4.0 based phone wich have Google Music Player pre-installed. But this seems to be a mess on system that is only CLI based.

I was planning to "root" my Google Nexus 7 tablet today.First, I wanted to check for the latest "toolkit" and recommended instructions:http://www.wugfresh.com/dev/nexus-root-toolkit/http://www.geardiary.com/2012/08/16/how … uld-do-it/http://www.androidauthority.com/nexus-7 … ry-108909/http://forums.androidcentral.com/verizo … -12-a.htmlOn the Nexus 7, I can use t

Google has unveiled its ambitious play for the social networking market, Google+ with dominant player Facebook firmly in its sights; and according to one Google watcher the project is key to Google's future.