Months of speculation and rumors that culminated this week may be remembered as one of the most ambitious in the history of Google.
Jelly Bean ("mush" in English and the name of the version 4.1 of Android) is generally considered one of the main changes the software giant's operating system, causing a million based on company data and devices reached activated every day. With a nod to Apple, as the inclusion of an advanced voice search and the advent of Google now, a system that virtually all aspects of life online via the following phone, the update will come in July for the selected device users, while the rest of the industry, the rest of the year. While each company to add specific tools to your next updates based modeling of the system, these are the main available to users of the platform, regardless of brand or computer.
Google now
Google created a stir earlier this year with a new policy on the protection of personal data that all information would be gathered under one account, although some have talked about their future use. One of them is integrated into this new version under the name Google Now, a function that combines all the data on location, calendar, email, and even music.
Basically, it collects usage records of all Google online services to a number of suggestions to offer. So you can automatically recommend a restaurant hardly go out of it, based on similar local visits. You can also automatically display information such as time and again in the case of change of city and country, and give even the fastest way to a scheduled event in Google Calendar to achieve. Under the setup menu, users can now choose to use Google, it can be disabled at any time.
Applications
As a key component of the operating system, some embedded applications also major changes in this version. For example, the mobile version of Google Chrome browser is now the standard software for browsing websites, and the map application now automatically saved in the popular routes, so review them again, even without Internet access, ideal for areas with poor reception. But perhaps one of the main innovations is the new update of applications, and will not download the entire application each time it seems a new version, but that will detect changes and is only one set of files are updated with the new version, saving download time and offering a shorter plant. A new enhanced security, also precludes the possibility of applications pirates, who in many cases, malicious software that can steal user data to install.
Voice Control
As part of a more aggressive campaign to compete with Apple, especially Siri, your virtual assistant, Google did this time a special emphasis on the voice control functions, which previously formed a small role in your operating system. For example, access to the browser by voice, before relegated to dictate keywords, now allows for intelligent search. If the previous versions could only "time, Paris," now will be available directly on the phone with a simple "How's the weather in Paris". The results not only show on the screen with a mix of data from different sites (such as images and figures), but also be 'read' by the phone like Siri. Another improvement is the dictate of the text, which will now use your voice to e-mails, text messages and write documents without access to the Internet, before required for this function.
Smoother interface
As part of an internal project team to develop Android, Google paid special attention to the phone interface, which is now designed to quickly and efficiently respond to touch gestures on the screen to improve. The animations of certain functions of menus, as these securities in the open, close an application or navigate through applications, have also been improved for easier browsing.
In addition, a new process control system slows down to conserve battery power when not in use, the restoration of full capacity after igniting the screen. So every time the phone is required to be ready to open function is needed as soon as possible. Even the movements of the fingers on the screen is recorded by the system, so you can predict what the next step and can load the application you need.
Messages interactive
System messages, including alerts for all installed applications, such as mentions on social networks, email or the weather of the day, have also been improved to be more interactive and does not require specific applications for each time you open new. Before relegated to a few lines of information, can now photos, whole paragraphs and buttons. For example, in the case of receipt of the notification of a check-in on Foursquare with a contact, this can comment directly from the service without having to open your application. For applications which do not receive content preferably allows the user to independently block by a simple menu. This will be "muted" temporarily or permanently a large number of applications that generate notifications.
Better Connectivity
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Ice Cream Sandwich, the latest revision of the operating system, and support for connectivity via NFC (RF nearby), this is the first release designed to further exploit the capacity, which is included in most models high -end, but uses far were limited to functions such as transfer of data between two phones (excluding Galaxy SIII) or payments through Google Wallet, a service available only in U.S. Now Jelly bean use this technology to share content with a phone that the system supports only by giving a contact with the team. Just enough to bring together the teams to begin sending files without using keys or special applications. This means not only work with phones, but also with other devices on the technology to share or have direct access to multimedia content.
When will it arrive?
According to the official announcement from Google, the first teams to receive it in mid-July, the line appliances Galaxy Nexus, made by the company in cooperation with the Korean Samsung, in addition to the Xoom, Motorola's tablet launched in 2011. Other devices that will receive the update as its technical features are the SIII and HTC Galaxy One X, both came a few days ago the domestic market. While the new versions take longer for the changes that each company contributes to the teams, the most advanced users of some equipment (such as Nexus and SIII) can access versions of "clean" operating system on the network, ie that not include brand-specific tools.
So you can install the operating system for the official release, although in some cases, teams are updated manually, are not subject to the original warranty. Prefer to automatically receive this new version works through an installation OTA (Over-the-Air), which means that the phone will notify you and automatically download the update, if available.
