{"id":750168,"date":"2013-05-07T22:32:05","date_gmt":"2013-05-08T02:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talkandroid.com\/?p=160908"},"modified":"2013-05-07T22:32:05","modified_gmt":"2013-05-08T02:32:05","slug":"google-glass-explorer-edition-receives-xe5-software-update-with-many-important-new-features","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/750168","title":{"rendered":"Google Glass Explorer Edition receives XE5 software update with many important new features"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a  href=\"http:\/\/www.talkandroid.com\/160908-google-glass-explorer-edition-receives-xe5-software-update-with-many-important-new-features\/google-glass-update-xe5\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-160927\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-160927\" alt=\"Google-Glass-update-XE5\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.talkandroid.com\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Google-Glass-update-XE5-630x339.png?resize=630%2C339\" width=\"630\" height=\"339\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a  href=\"http:\/\/www.talkandroid.com\/tag\/google-glass\/\">Google Glass <\/a>isn&#8217;t commercially available yet and <a  href=\"http:\/\/www.talkandroid.com\/160591-snl-has-some-fun-at-the-expense-of-google-glass\/\">was mocked by SNL a few days ago<\/a>, but the new product is receiving a substantial new software update. Named XE5, the new software adds a few important features, including Google+ notifications, crash reporting, and international calling. If you are lucky enough to have a headset, you need to have your device plugged into a charger in order to update.<\/p>\n<p>You can find the changelog after the break.<br \/>\n<span id=\"more-160908\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Among the new features in XE5:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Change to sync policy: require power + wifi for background uploads<\/li>\n<li>Crash reporting<\/li>\n<li>Incoming G+ notifications (direct shares, comments, +mentions), including ability to comment and +1<\/li>\n<li>Incoming Hangout notifications<\/li>\n<li>Transcription of queries &amp; messages is now wicked-fast<\/li>\n<li>Long-press to search from anywhere in the UI (no longer just from off)<\/li>\n<li>International number dialing + SMS<\/li>\n<li>Hop animation on disallowed swipes in the UI<\/li>\n<li>New On-Head Detection calibration flow<\/li>\n<li>Show device Serial Number on Device Info card<\/li>\n<li>More reliable estimation of battery charge remaining<\/li>\n<li>New recipient-list mosaic<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Source:\u00a0<a  href=\"http:\/\/redirectingat.com\/?id=3031X597718&xs=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fphandroid.com%2F2013%2F05%2F07%2Fgoogle-glass-xe5-software-update-now-available%2F&sref=rss\">Phandroid<\/a><\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<strong>Come comment on this article: <a  href=\"http:\/\/www.talkandroid.com\/160908-google-glass-explorer-edition-receives-xe5-software-update-with-many-important-new-features\/\">Google Glass Explorer Edition receives XE5 software update with many important new features<\/a><\/strong>\n<br \/>\n<div style=\"text-align:right;\"><small>Visit <a  rel=\"dofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.talkandroid.com\/\">TalkAndroid for Android news<\/a>, <a  rel=\"dofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.talkandroid.com\/guides\/\">Android guides<\/a>, and much more!<\/small><\/div><\/p>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/AndroidNewsGoogleAndroidForums\/~4\/yVTZ28bo6NU\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Glass isn&#8217;t commercially available yet and was mocked by SNL a few days ago, but the new product is receiving a substantial new software update. Named XE5, the new software adds a few important features, including Google+ notifications, crash reporting, and international calling. If you are lucky enough to have a headset, you need [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5398,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-750168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-399u","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5398"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=750168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}