rajanmehta 4,056 Report post Posted June 28, 2012 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. 6 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Genius 817 Report post Posted June 28, 2012 Wah bhai Android - there are not more than 10 ICS official handset and now a new Jelly is out - by the time jelly is there in 10 new will come Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
amtrag 20 Report post Posted June 28, 2012 USB audio out means using external usb DAC with an android device would soon be a reality. Wow. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
phonegeek 588 Report post Posted June 28, 2012 Google Now is amazing !!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lover_boy 2 Report post Posted June 28, 2012 great info thanks Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
phonegeek 588 Report post Posted June 28, 2012 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/ 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
KumaarShah 143 Report post Posted June 28, 2012 Smart App Updates will be the most welcome feature as we waste a lot of data updating apps every month. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
phonegeek 588 Report post Posted June 28, 2012 (edited) Google Now page is live now. Edited June 28, 2012 by phonegeek Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Saurav 22 Report post Posted June 28, 2012 will Google Now support Indian Data for Punjab Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sougatadc 358 Report post Posted June 28, 2012 Google Nexus 7 running on Android 4.1 launched for Rs 11,000 The tablet can be ordered now on Google Play in US, UK, Canada and Australia. Google on Wednesday launched its Nexus 7 tablet, at its Google I/O conference in San Francisco for $199 (Rs 11,000) that will run on the Android 4.1(Jelly Bean). Nexus 7 tablet is made by the Taiwanese company Asus rather than the firm's own Motorola hardware unit. The tablet can now be ordered on Google Play in US, UK, Canada and Australia. Also, along with the order consumers will a $25 credit to spend in Google Play for free movies and magazines. It will start shipping mid-July Andy Rubin, senior vice president of mobile and digital content posted in Google's official Blog. Nexus 7 comes with powerful specifications including a 1.3 Ghz quad core Tegra 3 processor, a GeForce 12 core graphics processor, and 1 GB of RAM, 1280 x 800 pixel IPS displays, Near Field communication chip and up to nine hours of video playback. It also features Google's Chrome browser at its default option, the first Android device to do so.The operating system of Nexus 7, Jelly Bean (Android 4.1) includes an intelligent keyboard that predicts words as you type them, support for offline voice typing, 18 new input languages, and accessibility improvements. Source Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
yogeshpote 20 Report post Posted June 28, 2012 i am already on Jelly bean on my Nexus (GSM) got the image from XDA and its buttery smooth i must say. if anyone wishes to get the hands warm may pls follow the link http://www.redmondpie.com/download-and-install-android-4.1-jelly-bean-on-galaxy-nexus-gsm-how-to-tutorial/ 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
yogeshpote 20 Report post Posted June 28, 2012 Android Jelly Bean 4.1 on my Google Nexus...! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rajanmehta 4,056 Report post Posted June 29, 2012 Siri in iOS 6 vs Google Voice Search in Android 4.1 Jelly Bean (VIDEO) Just watch how faster, accurate & beautiful the NEW Voice search is in Jelly bean! Flash won't be supported in Android 4.1, new installs to be disabled on August 15th Source In the wake of Android 4.1 Jelly Bean's announcement this week, Adobe has issued a note saying that it hasn't been developing and testing Flash against it and there won't be any "certified implementations" offered — in other words, the age of Flash on smartphones is effectively drawing to a close. If you still want to install Flash on your phone, now is the time to do it: Adobe says that it will be disabling fresh installs from Google Play on August 15th, meaning you'll only be able to update after that point if you already have it installed. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tanveer 59 Report post Posted June 29, 2012 Thinking of getting nexus from US Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
yogeshpote 20 Report post Posted June 30, 2012 @tanveer now GN is for $349 on GPlay site. Or else get it from grey market for 23k. Sent from my GT-I9300 using Tapatalk 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tanveer 59 Report post Posted July 1, 2012 Sorry I meant nexus 7. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
yogeshpote 20 Report post Posted July 3, 2012 @tanveer Its in pre booking on google site for 199. Should be available in india my end of July in grey market (got info from my heera panna vendor) Sent from my GT-I9300 using Tapatalk 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
KapilAgrawal 340 Report post Posted July 3, 2012 $349 for Google Nexus HSPA+ with Jelly Beans Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
manujgupta 5 Report post Posted July 3, 2012 Please provide the link from where can I buy google nexus Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
digitalnirvana 646 Report post Posted July 3, 2012 It is on USA Google play store as mentioned earlier in this thread. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
n_iceman 97 Report post Posted July 4, 2012 Please provide the link from where can I buy google nexus http://www.ebay.com/itm/Nexus-7-Google-Play-8-GB-Tablet-Android-4-1-Jelly-Bean-ASUS-Quad-Core-Processor-/170869487064?pt=US_Tablets&hash=item27c89d75d8#ht_8979wt_948 @ $300 (including shipping) expected to ship on July 20th Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
manujgupta 5 Report post Posted July 4, 2012 Please provide the link from where can I buy google nexus http://www.ebay.com/...8#ht_8979wt_948 @ $300 (including shipping) expected to ship on July 20th @n_iceman: Thanks for the pointer. But I was looking for the GSM handset and not the tablet. Please provide a link if available. Thanks again Manuj Gupta Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
digitalnirvana 646 Report post Posted July 5, 2012 Please provide the link from where can I buy google nexus http://www.ebay.com/...8#ht_8979wt_948 @ $300 (including shipping) expected to ship on July 20th @n_iceman: Thanks for the pointer. But I was looking for the GSM handset and not the tablet. Please provide a link if available. Thanks again Manuj Gupta The galaxy nexus has been put on backorder on Google play USA store because it is currently banned from sale due to Apple's injunction over Samsung. Whoever got it for $349 are going to make a killing selling it at higher prices on XDA/EBay.com etc. Please try checking there. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rajanmehta 4,056 Report post Posted July 6, 2012 Take this news with a spoon of salt... But NEWS it is! Looks somewhat believable because intel chose Karbonn for Zolo, the first Intel Atom Processor Android in the world. And Karbonn has been able to deliver it. So who knows, they may be having the capability to pull this off! Karbonn Planning To Launch Jelly Bean Tablet, Smartphone in September Source Indian manufacturer Karbonn seem to be jumping on the Jelly Bean train pretty fast. The company revealed in media interaction earlier today that it plans to release an Android 4.1 smartphone and a tablet in September this year. According to information released by the company on these upcoming Jelly Bean devices, the smartphone will be dubbed as A25 and will feature a 4.5-inch display. On the other hand, the tablet will be known as ST4 and it will have a 9.7-inch display with Gorilla Glass protection. Company has also stated that it plans to price the tablet around INR 11,000. While we are sceptical about the timeline and whether the company will be able to deliver Jelly Bean devices this fast or it is just trying to cash in the Jelly Bean hype to get some media coverage. If it is indeed able to launch the devices, it would certainly be a big feat for manufacturer, which is still trying to get in the groove of smartphone/tablet arena. Google is expected to release the Android 4.1 source code in mid-July and then only manufacturers like Karbonn will be able to get the work started on their Jelly Bean devices. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tanveer 59 Report post Posted July 6, 2012 karbonn kamal catch Share this post Link to post Share on other sites