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Google I|O 2012

Using a high speed camera, they compared the performance of IceCreamSandwich to JellyBean side by side. The JB device began animations quicker and did them faster. Video is available on Google’s web site.


Other JellyBean improvements:

  • Dropping widgets on the home screen moves other widgets out of the way.

  • Widgets are automatically resized to fit, and you can discard them by tossing them off the screen.

  • A better dictionary and predictive typing.

  • Offline voice typing using on-device voice recognition (US English first, more later).

  • Added Arabic font, plus Persian, Indian, and Thai.

  • For accessibility, they added gesture mode which lets you use gestures in combination with speech. Also they can do braille support.

  • Improved camera app lets you review existing photos with a swipe. Pinch gives you a film strip view. Toss photo away to delete it.

  • New Android Beam features: share photo or video by tapping.

  • Notifications are more customizable, lets you take calls, see all your GMail, email guests if you’re late. See photos shared on G+, like things on FourSquare, control music, etc., all within the notification area. Use gestures to expand/compact notifications.

  • Search redesigned from the ground up: New UI, Voice Search, and Google Now.

  • Voice search is much faster and answers you based on the power of the knowledge graph. This is essentially Google’s version of Siri.

  • Google Now figures out what you’re doing now and offers suggestions. For example if you’re near a bus stop, GN tells you when the next bus will arrive. It’ll show you restaurants around you as you walk down the street, and tell you when to depart to make events. Updates of your favorite teams (it knows which teams you like based on prior searches).

  • To get into Google Now you click the search box or swipe up from the bottom of your screen. Cards will get smarter and more accurate as you use them, and they’ll be adding more cards over time.


JellyBean will come out as an OTA update in July for Galaxy Nexus and Xoom. The Preview SDK is available right now from d.android.com.

ZD NET Live from Google I/O 2012
 
Anyone with a rooted phone feel like buying a movie or tv show and seeing if it works since rentals don't?
 
Probably gonna pre-order the 16GB Nexus 7. Quick question though, does it have a headphone jack? I can't imagine it won't.
 
samwapp said:
Probably gonna pre-order the 16GB Nexus 7. Quick question though, does it have a headphone jack? I can't imagine it won't.
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It doesn't say. I'd be shocked if it didn't.

Anyone else order and immediately charged? Google said I would not be charged until it shipped but I was in about 2 seconds. I guess that means I'll be getting mine in 2 days. :p
 
I let the whole jelly bean get to my head, I was walking home from work yesterday and had my data shut off and attempted to use voice typing

Does anyone know if the nexus 7 will have a micro sd card reader for additional storage? 8 and even 16 gb seem to be a little small if there is no way to have additional memory
 
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