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Android 4.1 Jelly Bean It's here, the next version of Android. So who will get it first? The Nexus 7 Tablet ships with Jelly Bean on board and Galaxy Nexus, the Motorola Xoom, and the Nexus S wil get it from mid july via over the air update. What's NEW? Fast & Smooth with Project Butter With buttery graphics and silky transitions. We put Android under a microscope, making everything feel fast, fluid, and smooth. Moving between home screens and switching between apps is effortless, like turning pages in a book. More reactive and uniform touch responses mean you can almost feel the pixels beneath as your finger moves across the screen. Jelly Bean makes your Android device even more responsive by boosting your device’s CPU instantly when you touch the screen, and turns it down when you don’t need it to improve battery life. To ensure a consistent framerate, Android 4.1 extends vsync timing across all drawing and animation done by the Android framework. Everything runs in lockstep against a 16 millisecond vsync heartbeat — application rendering, touch events, screen composition, and display refresh — so frames don’t get ahead or behind. Android 4.1 also adds triple buffering in the graphics pipeline, for more consistent rendering that makes everything feel smoother, from scrolling to paging and animations. Android 4.1 reduces touch latency not only by synchronizing touch to vsync timing, but also by actually anticipating where your finger will be at the time of the screen refresh. This results in a more reactive and uniform touch response. In addition, after periods of inactivity, Android applies a CPU input boost at the next touch event, to make sure there’s no latency. Project Butter VIDEO Simple, beautiful and beyond smart - Expandable, actionable notifications. Android has always put you in control when it comes to staying notified and connected. Now you can take action directly from the notifications shade. Late for a meeting? Email everyone to let them know. Missed a call? Call them back in an instant. And because they’re expandable, you can get an even deeper look into the things that matter most, like multiple emails or photos on Google+. Notifications have long been a unique and popular feature on Android. Developers can use them to place important or time-based information in front of users in the notification bar, outside of the app’s normal UI. Android 4.1 brings a major update to the Android notifications framework. Apps can now display larger, richer notifications to users that can be expanded and collapsed with a pinch. Notifications support new types of content, including photos, have configurable priority, and can even include multiple actions. Widgets work like magic. With Jelly Bean it’s now even easier to personalize your home screen. As you place widgets on the screen, everything else automatically moves to make room. When they’re too big, widgets resize on their own. Interacting with your favorite apps and customizing your home screen has never been easier. Seamlessly take and share photos. Android 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich, made snapping photos super fast; Jelly Bean brings that same speed to the next step: viewing. Just swipe over from camera to filmstrip view to instantly view the photos you just took, and quickly swipe away the ones you don’t like. Now sharing--and bragging--are a breeze. A smarter keyboard. Android’s dictionaries are now more accurate, more relevant. The language model in Jelly Bean adapts over time, and the keyboard even guesses what the next word will be before you’ve started typing it. With improved text-to-speech capabilities, voice typing on Android is even better; it works even when you don’t have a data connection, so you can type with your voice everywhere you go. Accessibility. With Jelly Bean, blind users can use 'Gesture Mode' to reliably navigate the UI using touch and swipe gestures in combination with speech output. Jelly Bean also adds support for accessibility plugins to enable external Braille input and output devices via USB and Bluetooth. Android Beam. With Android Beam on Jelly Bean you can now easily share your photos and videos with just a simple tap, in addition to sharing contacts, web pages, YouTube videos, directions, and apps. Just touch two NFC-enabled Android devices back-to-back, then tap to beam whatever's on the screen to your friend. Instantly pair your Android phone or tablet to Bluetooth devices like headsets or speakers that support the Simple Secure Pairing standard by just tapping them together - no more syncing or searching required. The new Google experience on Android The best of Google just got better on Android. The search experience in Jelly Bean has a new look-and-feel, and has faster and more natural Voice Search. And Google Now brings you just the right information, before you even ask. Google Now brings you just the right information at just the right time. Google Now tells you today’s weather before you start your day, how much traffic to expect before you leave for work, when the next train will arrive as you’re standing on the platform, or your favorite team's score while they’re playing. And the best part? All of this happens automatically. Cards appear throughout the day at the moment you need them. Google Now VIDEO A new look for Search. Android has search at its core. With Jelly Bean, a redesigned experience uses the power of the Knowledge Graph to show you search results in a richer way. It’s easier to quickly get answers and explore and browse search results. Voice Search. Sometimes you’d rather just speak your search query. Or just ask a question. Android lets you search the web with your voice, and it’s convenient for getting quick answers on the fly. It speaks back to you and is powered by the Knowledge Graph, bringing you a precise answer if it knows it, and precisely ranked search results, so you can always find out more. USB Audio USB audio output support allows hardware vendors to build hardware such as audio docks that interface with Android devices. Multichannel audio Android 4.1 supports multichannel audio on devices that have hardware multichannel audio out through the HDMI port. Multichannel audio lets you deliver rich media experiences to users for applications such as games, music apps, and video players. For devices that do not have the supported hardware, Android automatically downmixes the audio to the number of channels that are supported by the device (usually stereo). Android 4.1 also adds built-in support for encoding/decoding AAC 5.1 audio. App Encryption Starting with Android 4.1, Google Play will help protect application assets by encrypting all paid apps with a device-specific key before they are delivered and stored on a device. This is probably to stop piracy of paid apps. Most probably say goodbye to sharing a paid app in jellybean. Smart App Updates Smart app updates is a new feature of Google Play that introduces a better way of delivering app updates to devices. When developers publish an update, Google Play now delivers only the bits that have changed to devices, rather than the entire APK. This makes the updates much lighter-weight in most cases, so they are faster to download, save the device’s battery, and conserve bandwidth usage on users’ mobile data plan. On average, a smart app update is about 1/3 the size of a full APK update.

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Meet Tactus - The Touchscreen That Pops into Physical Buttons on Demand, Then Flattens Back Source It's been everyone's dream ever since touchscreens got popular in smartphones and tablets in the last few years - to have physical buttons that pop when you have to type or dial a number, then flatten back leaving you with just the touchscreen when they are not needed. It's been a fantasy so far, one reserved for sci-fi movies and concept handsets, where everything goes. Not if you ask Tactus, however - the company has developed a way to replace the top layer of existing touchscreens with a Tactile Layer that incorporates popping buttons, which can morph back into an even surface. The layer doesn't add extra thickness to existing touchscreens, Tactus argues, and the buttons shape, size and layout can be customized for each particular case. The keys are application-controlled and utterly transparent, so when you are finished typing letters and numbers, or killing zombies and racing Porsches, the buttons just sink back into a flat shape. Magical stuff indeed, and one we hope gets perfected for use in our smartphones and tablets as soon as possible. The trademark "Tactile Layer" was already demonstrated at the SID expo the other day on an Android tablet as well. Watch a video explaining the science behind the Tactus magic below.

Google Nexus 7 Tablet Leaks Out: Internal Training Document Confirms All Your Hopes Source Source Ladies and gents, the Google Nexus 7 is just days away from its launch, it will be made by Asus and it will look just as you see on the picture below. At least according to a training document Gizmodo Australia obtained days before the 7-inch quad-core tablet’s launch. And that document - even though the picture from it looks real - could turn out to be a fake one, so keep that healthy shade of doubt until the official announcement. The official unveiling should happen in just two days at the 2012 Google I/O kicking off June 27th in San Francisco, so stay tuned - after Apple played its WWDC card and Microsoft went all Windows Phone at its dev summit, you don’t want to miss Google’s response now, do you? If true, though, the Nexus 7, as it’s referred to in the training document, will get a release date in July, and will pack a powerful quad-core Tegra 3 chip. Also, it will run on Android Jelly Bean, the next big redefinition of Android that could bump up the version number to Android 4.1 or Android 5. First, let’s look at the technical details, as they appear in that precious leaked document: 7-inch 1280×800 IPS display with 178-degree viewing angle Android 4.1 Jelly Bean 1.3GHz quad-core Tegra 3 chip nVidia GeForce 12-core GPU 1GB of RAM 8GB or 16GB of internal storage 1.2MP front-facing camera, no rear camera 9-hour battery life Wi-Fi a/b/g/n NFC with Google Wallet The best thing about the Nexus 7 tablet? Its price will be a kicker - the 8 gig version will set you back $199, while the 16 gig model will cost $249. The second best thing? Google is allegedly taking over the software updates on this, so you should expect getting the next version of Android with little or no delay.

Nexus Q Introduced At Google IO 2012. Price US $ 299. Source Nexus Q streams your favorite entertainment directly from the cloud to your living room. Just use the Google Play and YouTube apps on your Android phone or tablet to surf an ocean of music, TV, movies and music, and Nexus Q will play it all on the biggest speakers and screen in the house. There are no downloads, no syncing, no running out of space. Just the stuff you love -- at home and out loud. Google has officially announced the Nexus Q, an audio and video streaming appliance for users at home. It's a cloud-oriented device, designed to pull media from the Google Play Store as well as YouTube. The Q delivers the media to your television or a set of external speakers — it features a 25-watt amplifier as well — and is powered by the same chipset as the Galaxy Nexus. It features ethernet, Bluetooth, and NFC connectivity, and owners will be able to use their Android devices to control the streamer. Optical audio and micro-HDMI output are included, and the device also features banana-style connectors for connecting speakers. Multiple Qs can be controlled from a given Android device, turning it into a multi-room solution, but the big selling point here is the social aspect. Different users can add music from their own Google Play music collection to the Q's queue, turning it into a clever option for parties or group events (Bowers & Wilkins offers similar collaborative functionality with its Air Zeppelin app for iOS). 32 LEDs ring the sphere-shaped device, and change color and rhythm depending on the music that's playing (the entire top of the device is a rotating volume control, while a capacitive touch sensor allows for quick and easy muting). The same can be done with Play Store video content as well, with all media streaming from from the cloud and simply being controlled by a user's Android phone or tablet. Introducing Nexus Q How Nexus Q Works

The coolest live product demo you will ever see: Project Glass at Google I/O Source We have seen some pretty awesome live product demos but never seen something like this. EVER. Last night, Google’s Sergey Brin orchestrated the most breathtaking product demo that probably no one has even dreamed about pulling off, leave alone daring to attempt it. Brin’s stunt involved a team of skydivers, rapplers, bikers and just about everything you could ever imagine but it wasn’t gimmicky at all! Read on to find out what he did as well as watch the entire stunt. The demo started with a group of skydivers who were hovering a mile above Moscone Center where Google I/O is taking place. Sergey initiates a group Hangout and the skydivers are able to participate and literally show their point of view from Google Glasses they are wearing. They jump off the blimp and land on the roof of Moscone Center with their Glasses transmitting everything they can see even during the dive. They deliver a package (you can see Brin holding it in the photograph above) to a pair of bikers, who deliver it to a couple of rapplers who rapple down the exterior walls of Moscone Center. Finally the package is delivered to Brin. Mind you, all of them are wearing a Google Glass and their visuals are being shown on the big screen when they have the package! Now be prepared to get your mind blown! Project Glass: Live Demo At Google I/O

Motorola are not easy phone may will agree, i have Motorola Droid Razr with 2.6.6 which was in OMH card mode and wanted to shift to NV item as i was upgrading it to ICS official via droid utility 1.7 posted else where in this forum. I was trying for long 2-3 days to get it working in NV mode via CDMA whsp 2.8.5 but it failed all the time. Problem with moto sets is there is no direct COM port and then you have to use HW VSP (virtual serial port) to connect to it. for this the set has to be kept in windows PC mode for proper handshake and then too many times cdma wksp fails to read / write many times and it keeps on asking SPC. One more thing after ICS there is no Windows PC mode in Moto USB menu so there was no option to connect it to CDMA wksp or QPST i was going to net i and found solution so sharing it with you all. the main advantage is you don't need HW VSP for this (tried tested with RAZR must work with other also- can't say) and with this CDMA / QPST connected like charm without any hitch. Method: Get your Windows Droid driver - for moto and instal it connect phone in PC put your phone in “AP Fastboot” see below Let’s put your Droid Razr into Fastboot mode. You can do this by holding down Volume Up, Volume Down, and Power buttons together. Hold them down together for about 5 seconds until your phone resets (your screen will flicker and turn off), then quickly let go of the Power button then hold it down again. (See video tutorial if you don’t get it.) http://droidrazrroot...-2-3-66-12-173/ Now is the main part once in AP F mode there is a option BP tools at last - select it It will install all the drivers needed and bingo it will show in your Device manager along with the com port - thats it you don't need HW VSP at all and all your commands will work like a charm. PS: Please list if it worked in any other moto Thanks to Parin and Kapil Ji for their help at all times

Google Play now allows you to remotely uninstall and update app from play.google.com Very coooooooooool........ http://howto.cnet.com/8301-11310_39-57462148-285/you-can-now-update-uninstall-android-apps-via-google-play-site/

Many are available on Ebay >> http://www.ebay.in/s...d=p3286.c0.m282 But all sellers seem to have jacked up prices upwards of 28K which was 25K+ earlier. May be because of ongoing Ebay 10% Coupon.. Should also be available in your city at famous places where grey market imported phones are sold. Yes it's GSM phone with SIM.

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Price wise, now it makes more sense to go for Galaxy Nexus instead of S2 because you'll get latest android 4.1 Jelly Bean OTA update mid july on it. Though not officially available in india, it's available for around 24-25K in grey market online and offline. Hardware wise, Galaxy Nexus is quite a capable device and pure google jelly bean experience should be awesome. Google is selling it in US through play store and has cut the price from US $399 to US$ 349 yesterday.

BP Tools is supported by Motorola Droid Bionic Motorola Droid 3 Motorola Droid 4 Motorola Droid Razr Motorola Droid Razr Max Some new bootloader on Droid X2 & Photon also support this

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ON MIUI i have tested UIM & SIM Both are working Fine Except Data on CDMA Have tested Other Custom Roms are there too on which Data is working on GSM as well as CDMA