{"id":36016,"date":"2020-07-01T18:44:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T18:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/?p=2630523"},"modified":"2020-07-01T18:44:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T18:44:00","slug":"google-confirms-that-its-airdrop-competitor-is-coming-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/07\/01\/google-confirms-that-its-airdrop-competitor-is-coming-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Google confirms that its AirDrop competitor is coming soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"119\" height=\"40\" src=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/4000-logo.jpg\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;\" link_thumbnail=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1\" title=\"A Pixel 4 XL display the Android 11 logo\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/thumbor\/RnlacSgV8PbW6tglrNU7vT3Hn8E=\/0x0:2040x1360\/1310x873\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/uploads\/chorus_image\/image\/67001201\/dbohn_200608_4059_0008.0.jpg\" width=\"866\" height=\"577\" data-pre-sourced=\"yes\" data-sourced=\"yes\" data-original=\"https:\/\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/thumbor\/RnlacSgV8PbW6tglrNU7vT3Hn8E=\/0x0:2040x1360\/1310x873\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/uploads\/chorus_image\/image\/67001201\/dbohn_200608_4059_0008.0.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/thumbor\/RnlacSgV8PbW6tglrNU7vT3Hn8E=\/0x0:2040x1360\/1310x873\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/uploads\/chorus_image\/image\/67001201\/dbohn_200608_4059_0008.0.jpg\" \/><\/span><small>Dieter Bohn<\/small><\/p>\n<p>After months of rumors, Google has finally confirmed that its &ldquo;Nearby Share&rdquo; feature is on the way. Some Android users are already testing a beta version.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;re currently conducting a beta test of a new Nearby Share feature that we plan to share more information on in the future,&rdquo; Google told&nbsp;<em>Android Police<\/em>. &ldquo;Our goal is to launch the feature with support for Android 6+ devices as well as other platforms.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The feature started showing up in&nbsp;Chrome OS Canary builds&nbsp;earlier this month, indicating that it will work on Chromebooks as well.<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside><q>&ldquo;Our goal is to launch the feature with support for Android 6+ devices.&rdquo;<\/q><\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p>Nearby Share looks to function as an Android version of Apple&rsquo;s AirDrop. You can use it to quickly and wirelessly transfer files between proximate Android phones.&nbsp;<em>Android Police,&nbsp;<\/em>which got a hands-on with the feature, says it works for photos and videos as well as links and tweets.<\/p>\n<p>Per&nbsp;<em>Android Police,&nbsp;<\/em>you can&rsquo;t use Nearby Share to send random things to strangers. A user has to have the function set up and made their phone &ldquo;visible&rdquo; (done easily via a Quick Settings tile) before they can receive content, and they must manually accept a file they&rsquo;re receiving before it opens.<\/p>\n<p>Samsung&nbsp;has been working on a similar feature called Quick Share, which allows you to blast files to as many as five friends at a time. (AirDrop is one to one.) The advantage of Nearby Share, though, is that it should work with Android products across manufacturers, while Quick Share is currently only intended for Samsung devices.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tags\">\n<div><strong>See Campaign: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2020\/6\/30\/21308500\/google-airdrop-competitor-share-android-phones-beta-file-samsung-apple\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2020\/6\/30\/21308500\/google-airdrop-competitor-share-android-phones-beta-file-samsung-apple<\/a><br \/><b>Contact Information:<\/b><br \/>Monica Chin<\/p>\n<p><b>Tags:<\/b><br \/><a href=\"\"><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/news-category\/artificial-intelligence-newswire\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Artificial Intelligence Newswire<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/news-category\/wire\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Wire<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/global-regions\/united-states\/\" rel=\"category tag\">United States<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/language\/english\/\" rel=\"category tag\">English<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" alt=\"image\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"cwdfimg\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>Contact Information:<\/h3>\n<p>Monica Chin<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"119\" height=\"40\" src=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/4000-logo.jpg\" alt=\"\">Dieter Bohn After months of rumors, Google has finally confirmed that its &ldquo;Nearby Share&rdquo; feature is on the way. Some Android users are already testing a beta version. &ldquo;We&rsquo;re currently conducting a beta test of a new Nearby Share feature that we plan to share more information on in the future,&rdquo; Google told&nbsp;Android Police. &ldquo;Our &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/2020\/07\/01\/google-confirms-that-its-airdrop-competitor-is-coming-soon\/\">Continue reading <span>Google confirms that its AirDrop competitor is coming soon<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/07\/01\/google-confirms-that-its-airdrop-competitor-is-coming-soon\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,3,22,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence-newswire","category-english","category-united-states","category-wire"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Google confirms that its AirDrop competitor is coming soon - Business<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/07\/01\/google-confirms-that-its-airdrop-competitor-is-coming-soon\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Google confirms that its AirDrop competitor is coming soon - Business\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Dieter Bohn After months of rumors, Google has finally confirmed that its &ldquo;Nearby Share&rdquo; feature is on the way. 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