Google Project Fi for Nexus 6 Update: Wifi Experiment to Secretly Choose, Connect "Best" WiFi Networks for You

Google has now entered the network service arena with its Project Fi. The Project Fi aims in creating faster network for a swifter exchange of data and information. However, the Project Fi network is supported only by the Nexus 6.

Unlike the big carriers like the Verizon, AT&T, T-mobile and Sprint, thee Google Fi project is a network that makes use of the best available network, whether it may be a Wi Fi connection or one of the two available LTE network partners, T-mobile or Sprint.

The Project Fi connects the Nexus 6 to the fastest available open Wi Fi network. The transition from Wi Fi network to a cell network is supposed to be seamless when the Wi Fi signal gets weak. If the strongest connection is a cellular network, Project Fi will automatically detect and connect the user to the fastest network in your area, starting with 4G LTE, then 3G, and 2G. Thus, Project Fi chooses the best available connection in the user's surrounding.

According to Project Fi website, "Project Fi automatically connects you to more than a million free, open Wi Fi hotspots we've verified as fast and reliable. Your data is secured through encryption when we connect you to open Wi Fi hotspots. It's like your data has a private tunnel to drive though".

Project Fi also supports Wi Fi calling which helps to expand the user's network.

It is to be noted that, Project Fi is supported by only Nexus 6. Project Fi helps the users to share their phone number with all the devices that support Google Hangouts. Hangouts facilitate the users to make or receive calls or send and receive texts on devices other than the smart phone like laptops, computer and even on the tablets.

Looking at the plan of the Project Fi network, it is priced at $20 per month for unlimited domestic talk and text, unlimited international messages, low cost international calls, and also Wi Fi tethering. Data charges are fixed at $10 per GB of data, or in other words $0.01 per MB.

One of the notable features of Project Fi is that the users will have to pay only for the amount of data consumed and not in terms of data packages. The users pay only for what they use.

Project Fi is currently an Early Access Program. The Early Access Program can be used on the Nexus 6 only upon an invite.