JELLY BEAN is the latest Android
Verson (4.1)...
It launched around july2012 last
week..
Which Phones Will Get
Android 4.1?
Nevertheless, some Android devices will have
Jelly Bean out of the gate. Google-branded phones--the Nexus S and Galaxy
Nexus--will have it, as will the company's new tablet, the Nexus 7, made
by Asus.
Motorola's Xoom
tablet will have the new version of the OS, too. Although the company
hasn't made any statements about when Jelly Bean might arrive on its
smartphones, like its Razr model, odds are that now that the company's mobile
division is part of Google, it will be adopting Jelly Bean sooner rather than
later. Google's $12.5 billion purchase of Motorola's mobile
business was completed in May.
Samsung, which makes
the Nexus phones for Google, will likely be quick to bring Jelly Bean to some
of its phone models, especially its hot, new Galaxy S III. In a statement
to Pocket-lint, the Korean handset maker said it will "soon"
announce its devices deemed suitable for Jelly Bean.
As for handset makers HTC, Sony
Mobile (formerly Sony Ericsson), and LG, Pocket-lint predicts that Jelly Bean
will not arrive on their hardware any time soon. LG acknowledged to the website
that it's too busy trying to implement Ice Cream Sandwich (Android
4.0) to focus much on Jelly Bean....
FEATURES...
Android 4.1 Jelly Bean is going to be quick and
saves battery
As
Dave Burke, Engineering Director puts it, Android Jelly Bean is going to be
"buttery smooth". Android 4.1 has been updated to be "fast,
fluid and smooth", using Project Butter.
We
could get into technical details of Triple Buffering (GPU/CPU and Display in
sync), improved frame rates (60fps across the devices) and touch anticipation,
but in essence: this translates into a faster, smoother user experience.
Using
Touch Input Boost, Android 4.1 boosts the CPU so that loading times are faster,
and therefore uses less battery power.
Updates
to Google Play also mean that now app updates are smarter. Rather
than downloading and installing the whole installation file, apps only install
changed elements, making them on average 66% smaller.
Android 4.1 Jelly Bean looks and plays nice
As
the heart of the Android experience, it would be unfair if the homescreen had
been ignored. Thankfully, it hasn't. Moving widgets between different
homescreens is now more intuitive, with apps and widgets moving out of the way
to accommodate. Apps also move around when resizing widgets.
As
with every Android iteration, there comes another keyboard. Android 4.1 brings
over a new adaptive keyboard that learns your typing and can predict the next
word before you've typed it.
Jelly
Bean also brings a new Arabic font, and 18 new languages including Persian,
Hindi and Thai. Support for blind users is also improved, with gesture support,
and Bluetooth supported for external Braille devices
Previously
being the preserve of those with fast data connections, Google have shrunk the
data for the Voice package so it fits on your individual Android devices too.
It currently only supports US English, but local packages are in the works.
Android 4.1 Jelly Bean loves NFC
Android
Beam now comes with the ability to send photos and videos to other NFC enabled
devices, and allows instant pairing with NFC enabled Bluetooth devices.
Google
is obvioulsy impressed with this functionality, although we're not sure how
that handling of videos and photos is going to be handled - we saw hide nor
hair of Wi-Fi Direct compatibility on the Google Nexus 7, so it seems media
will be sent via Bluetooth.
This
means much slower download speeds - odd given the Samsung Galaxy
S3 can manage the same NFC trick but do it all at a miuch higher transfer
rate.
Jelly Bean Notifications are far more interactive
Notifications
now provide more information, as well as becoming actionable. This means that a
missed call notification allows you to immediately call back, calendar apps
allow you to email everyone going or you can like/+1 other notifications right
from your notification bar.
They
also become expandable, with the top notification automatically being larger
and showing more information, or by swiping down the screen with two fingers to
enlarge something specific.
Google's
recently launched Knowledge Graph feature on standard Google search has become
mobile. A new clean simple UI provides "cards" of information showing
you quick info, such as weather forecasts. Swiping away the cards brings up a
full web search.
Using
the improved voice typing feature (part of the new Google Now line-up in the
browser), voice searching is quicker and more intuitive. Asking who the Prime
minister of Japan is brings up a card, and speaks to you telling you its
Yoshihiko Noda. Alternatively you can ask it to show pictures, starting an
image search.
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