Thursday, June 28, 2012

Time to have some Jelly Bean!



While were busy sleeping an all last nigh, Google I/O 2012 kicked off and revealed loads of goodies that will come in the near future. Google introduced it's latest sweet treat mobile OS, Android 4.1 Jelly Bean.


In a nutshell, Jelly Bean will offer Android users:

  • Framerate has been increased to 60 FPS
  • Vsync is enabled
  • Triple Buffering is enabled.
  • Text Input improvement
  • Voice Typing no longer requires network connection
  • Improved Voice search - time for Siri to hide?
  • Resizeable Widgets - finally, I have been waiting for so long...
  • Improvement to predictive keyboard
  • 18 new input languages
  • Improved CPU utilization - faster is better!
  • Improved Accessibility for the blind
  • Camera App update - pinch to view in film strip
  • Android Beam update- Video sharing via NFC and NFC pairing by just bumping with NFC enabled device
  • Notifications update - now able to make phone calls, view multiple emails, able to expand apps all within the notification shade overlay
  • Revamped mobile search
  • Google Now - gives you search result information at the right time.
    • eg. map/direction searches gives you directions now with how much time to get there, estimated arrival time, etc.

4.1 update will be pushed to some devices like Galaxy Nexus, Nexus S by mid July 2012, so expect it to hit the rest of the newer devices running on ICS after that.

Just some numbers from Google boasting about Android; 1 million Android users are activated everyday up from 400,000.




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