Google on Thursday gave a quick glimpse of a variety of new features coming to its next-generation operating system, dubbed Android M, during a keynote at Google I/O.

The updates include Android Pay for mobile payments, improved power management and faster charging.

A developer’s preview of M was to be made available later Thursday with the public release coming sometime in the third quarter of 2015.

Google Now will also be updated in Android M to provide better context for voice and text searches that can work almost instantly, officials said. In a demonstration during the keynote, a verbal request to get a musician’s birth name was made from inside the playing of a song instead of having to leave the song to find the information.

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