Forget dry-erase markers: Google has a new conference room tool that's a lot cooler -- and networked, too. The Jamboard is the interactive whiteboard the company first announced back in October 2016. Starting today, your company can set it up in its meeting room -- for a cool $5,000. Google has launched a free tablet and phone app for iOS and Android, also called Jamboard, that connects to Google's G Suite office software. The software also lives in Google's purpose-built Jamboard display, but the free companion app does many of the same things. Owning the big Jamboard isn't required, but the big board and the smaller-screen apps can play together.
Jamboard's main function is collaborative brainstorming done via whiteboard scribbling. The app throws together handwriting, freeform sketching, photos, clippings and group-created post-it-style ideas into a live workspace that can be used in the same room and over remote Google Hangouts -- remember, GChat is going bye-bye, and Hangouts is going corporate. The Jamboard's colorful look -- it comes in blue, red or gray -- and optional rolling swivel stand give it a simple look, like a giant kid's tablet or a toy. (It comes with a wall mount, but the stand costs an extra $1,199 now, or $1,399 after September 30.) The two noncharging capacitive styluses and eraser that come with the Jamboard look like giant pieces of chalk and an eraser you'd use in a classroom.
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https://www.cnet.com/products/google-jamboard/preview/
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