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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