The presence of Android Jelly Bean from Google has been attracted the Android users of its new features and performance. This really exciting when we know that some features may be a little similar to what belong to Apple, including the siri, which is an digital assistant application to help us to do our daily activities.
Indeed, this Jelly Bean has been announced officially as the Google itself makes a statue of its Android. Furthermore, even though Jelly Bean is open source this also means Google can’t make money off it, at least not directly.
Moreover, the company does not control software updates, which is why we currently have a pretty fragmented Android ecosystem and that can be annoying at times for end-users and developers. Since OEMs and carriers are in charge of software updates and since they’d rather sell new devices instead of updating the old, we’re not surprised to see Ice Cream Sandwich, Google’s Android 4.0 update that was released in late 2012, only available on around 7% of available Android devices.
We can only hope that Jelly Bean will have a much better faith than its predecessor, and that it will soon be available on current ICS handsets. What’s worth noting is that Jelly Bean seems to be rather an incremental update (Android 4.1) instead of a major refresh (Android 5.0), which must mean that most devices that are running ICS or are upgradeable to ICS would also support Jelly Bean later down the road.
According to a conference that was held on San Fransisco, United States, here are the main new features of Android 4.1 Jelly Bean:
Better performance: “Project Butter” describes a new Google initiative to offer Android users a faster, more responsive OS starting with Jelly Bean by optimizing hardware usage, improving overall user experience and prolonging battery life.
Home screen and widgets: in Jelly Bean users will be able to better customize their home screens as the OS will help them neatly place widgets by making the most of the available space on cluttered screens.
Text input: Google revealed it has updated both its touch-based and its voice-based typing (dictation) features in Jelly Bean. The stock keyboard comes with a refined dictionary and predictive text support, while the dictation feature is also available offline.
Accessibility: Jelly Bean will offer several gesture- and voice-based features that make Android more accessible to visually challenged users.
Camera: the camera app has been slightly updated to offer faster image access.
Android Beam: the app now supports NFC-based picture and video sharing with other NFC-enabled devices as well as NFC-based connectivity with Bluetooth devices
Notifications: the app has been updated to better serve the needs of mobile device buyers. The new Notifications area now lets users do more things right inside the Notifications screen without having to switch to the app that pushes notifications in order to perform certain app-specific tasks.
Google Now: one of the main features of Jelly Bean, Google Search has been redesigned from the ground up. The search offers a new user interface, advanced voice-based search and a Google Now feature. Instead of displaying regular web results, Google Search now displays cards with information and images, both for typed and voice-based queries, although regular Google Search results are also available. The search engine has been upgraded to employ the Knowledge Graph technology, which understands what the users are actually looking for. Finally, Google Now takes into account all the data Google has about you to offer tailored, automatic responses based on Search and triggered by daily activities.
Maps: while Google did not mention Google Maps during the Jelly Bean section of its first keynote, we’ll remind you that the company held a special media event ahead WWDC 2012 to demo its next Google Maps update which will offer 3D maps and Google Maps offline support.
Google Play: over 600,000 apps that work automatically on most Android devices without the need of further customization.
Other features: not all the Jelly Bean features have been demoed on stage and we expect to learn more as we move forward.
Currently the main device that will be planted with this Jelly Bean is the tablet Galaxy Nexus 7 that will be made by Asus. But, it can already be tasted on HTC One X using Android 4.1 Jelly Bean even there some issues from the developers.
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