If you won’t be able to make it to San Francisco on the 19th and 20th of May for the Google I/O, don’t worry, YouTube has your back. The I/O will be streamed live from YouTube for the duration of the two-day conference.
YouTube will only be live-streaming the keynotes of the Google I/O, and leave the developers alone to learn what they can while the conference goes on. But that’s no loss, the keynotes will provide just about all the information you’re probably going to want to know about Google’s future plans.
Let’s hope there’s another Oprah moment this year; they gave every attendant a free Google Ion (HTC Magic) at last year’s show. Though Google has already sent out either Motorola Droids or Nexus Ones to paid attendees, I can only hope that they will announce a possible Nexus One follow-up, and give them out to the rest of us.
The Google I/O conference should be full of all sorts of good stuff this year. We’ll likely see Android 2.2 (Froyo) to some extent, and there should be some mention of Flash 10.1 for Android as well. Another thing that we weren’t necessarily expecting until a couple of weeks ago is Google TV. There are rumors of Sony announcing an Android-powered TV that runs on Intel’s Atom processor. If we don’t end up seeing a full-blown TV set, we may see an Android-powered set-top box instead.
I’m obviously most excited for the next version of Android, and to see what Adobe has done with Flash for mobile handsets. Still, a Google TV sounds pretty cool too.
All we can do is wait right now to see what the I/O has to offer us. While it may be just a little less than two weeks away, we’re certainly getting a little anxious to see what Google has in store for us! YouTube has your back, but we will be live-blogging the keynotes, so you don’t have to sit through all the boring stuff. Make sure to keep checking back on the IntoMobile frontpage for our Google I/O live event coverage!
[Via: AndroidGuys]