Alexandre Boero05 January 2022 at 7:008 p.m.

Google takes advantage of these 2022 to reveal its new features, with the desire to help its many users more easily pass from one device to another, through the prism of Android.

Based on the observation that the number of connected objects present in each household has doubled in the space of two years, Google has realized that the owners of these devices have various types, often of different brands.Many of these objects are supported by Android, such as smartphones, laptops, headphones, speakers, connected speakers, watches, tablets, televisions, but also cars.On the sidelines of these 2022, where Google shines by its physical absence because of the Omicron variant, the company presents new solutions "so that your Android devices and beyond work together".Let's see what the American giant is talking to us about.

Google wants to help you configure and quickly connect all your devices

In the coming months, Google will allow its users to associate their headphones with Google TV or any other device running Android TV OS.At a shorter term, "in the coming weeks", the Mountain View firm tells us, you can associate intelligent devices compatible with Matter with your network, but also associate them with Google Home and other related applications.Matter is Google's new home automation standard, which should take off this year.It will ensure real interoperability between products from different brands.

Regarding Fast Pair, the Google standard that connects an Android device to any connectable audio device in Bluetooth, there too there will be new.In the coming weeks, the protocol will cross a CAP, since it will be possible to associate your audio device without difficulty (for example your headphones) with your Chromebook, which will automatically detect it and be associated with one click.In case you buy a Chromebook in the year, you can quickly configure it with your Android smartphone and access the information already saved via your Google identifier.

Configuration rapide du Chromebook via son smartphone Android © Google

New on the locking and unlocking of devices, now simpler

More convenience and peace of mind: these are Google's objectives.If today it is possible to unlock your Chromebook with your Android phone, it will also be possible, in the coming months, to extend this feature to your Wear OS connected watch.So this means that using your watch, you can instantly unlock your smartphone, your Chromebook or your Android tablet and access it.

L'accès au smartphone à l'aide de sa montre Wear OS devient facile © Google

We were talking to you earlier vehicles, and Google just announces a partnership with BMW.During the year, owners of a German brand vehicle will be able to use their Samsung or Pixel smartphone compatible to lock, unlock and even start the automobile.These actions will be made possible thanks to the ultra wideband technology (UWB), which will even make them do without having to get your smartphone out of your pocket.

What is even crazier is that Google will give these same owners the possibility of sharing their digital car key with close to confidence, who can move or borrow the vehicle if necessary.On this aspect, Google’s goal is now to extend the number of compatible Android smartphones and vehicles.

Jump from one device to another according to your uses, effortlessly

Always with the aim of better connecting the devices between them and facilitating the passage from one to the other for the user, Google develops a technology for the Bluetooth compatible headphones which will automatically switch the audio according toThe device you listen to, from Chromebook to Android.If, for example, you watch a film with headphones from your Android tablet and you receive a call on your smartphone, the program will instantly set up as soon as you answer the call, and the sound of headphones orhelmet will switch to your mobile.By hanging up, he will capture the sound of your tablet again.Google is also working in space audio, expected in the coming months.Here, the sound will be adapted according to your head movements.

After sound, content.Google wants to facilitate the movement and management of the latter on any device.This is how in a few weeks, Chromecast technology, which allows you to project videos from your phone or computer on screens or televisions, will be available for more brands.The speakers and bars of its intelligent bose will become compatible this year.

Les enceintes et barres Bose seront bientôt compatibles avec la technologie Chromecast © Google

There will also be new for Phone Hub, which today allows access to the features of your smartphone from the screen of your Chromebook, such as responding to a message from a messaging app.New options will arrive during the year.So, if your phone is out of reach, you can still stay in touch by accessing mobile applications from your Chromebook, without having to reinstall them.

Let's go back to the cars again.In the coming months, it will be possible to turn it on and off it, control the temperature and obtain multiple information about your vehicle on devices compatible with the Google assistant, as on the Volvo Cara.This feature will make your car a real connected object.Other models will follow later, promises the American firm.

Google does not forget Windows and the sharing (simple) files

Finally, it will soon be possible to associate your Android smartphone with your Windows PC to configure Bluetooth accessories, to synchronize text messages and share files using Nearby Sharing, which is a bit of Android Airdrop andwhich avoids connecting to USB-C.Google announces working with Acer, HP and Intel to make it accessible to certain Windows PCs and their users.

Exemple de l'utilisation de Nearby Share entre un mobile et un PC Windows © Google

Let us therefore recall that all the new features unveiled in this article will not happen, at best, that in the coming weeks, even in the coming months for some, on the devices of the Google galaxy.It will therefore be necessary to take his pain in patience.

Source: Google press release