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K1 is notable for being the primary mobile SoC to incorporate a “desktop-class”
GPU. The Tango pill follows on from the Tango good phone that Google showed off
back. The K1-powered pill, once it arrives later this year, can set you back a
grand total of $1024 — however that’s a little value to pay money for a mobile
walk-around device with advanced 3D sensing and mapping capabilities.
Tango
is basically a sensible phone with intrinsic forward-facing Kinect, and some
alternative fancy sensors also. These sensors collect an enormous quantity of
information, that Google will then do some crazy things with — like making a
close 3D map of your home, mistreatment laptop vision to guide you to a
particular location within a market or any other place.
