Android 4.0 Ice cream Sandwich Is now Official: will Be offered In November together with Galaxy Nexus

After announcing Galaxy Nexus, Google lastly made Android 4.0 Ice cream Sandwich official. The stated OS is particularly developed to run on this type of powerful hardware. Also, Samsung is confirming that Ice cream Sandwich’s native resolution is 1280×720, 16:9 element ratio. The Galaxy Nexus as well as Android 4.0 will be offered in November this year.

Matias Duarte introduced Ice cream Sandwich for the very first time. ICS was established with 3 principals in mind; Android is enchanting, Android is easy, as well as Android is powerful. keeping that said, let’s see some enhancements in Ice cream Sandwich that were touched on in the event.

Basics

Android 4.0 Ice cream Sandwich gets numerous fundamental updates as a phone OS. very first off is the influence of Honeycomb throughout the new operating system. The new typeface for Android is called ‘Roboto’ as well as was particularly developed for the new OS. The lockscreen resembles that of the Nexus S with an updated lock ring. Gestures are utilized commonly throughout the new operation system as well as can be seen when managing notifications in the notification bar as well as recent apps menu. Within those you can flick notifications out if they aren’t essential as well as likewise flick to close applications that you no longer requirement running. You can likewise see notifications from the lockscreen, although I don’t believe I would discover that helpful for privacy concerns. Cut, copy, as well as paste has likewise been improved throughout ICS. One major, fundamental function that we lastly get to see is native screen capture. just hold down power as well as volume down to catch what ever is on your screen!

Google Apps

GMail gets a major update with the ‘action bar’ at the bottom of the app. This removes the requirement to open a different menu to carry out particular tasks, like batch deleting or archiving. This action bar is seen throughout Ice cream Sandwich in other applications. The video camera as well as gallery got some much needed interest this time around around. The video camera app now has a one second lag, implying that taking photos is lightening fast. The Gallery app can now kind by people or place as well as includes different editing tools. You can apply an range of hipster impacts as well as edit photo angle directly on the phone. Google likewise declares that Maps as well as Google+ were likewise updated in Ice cream Sandwich.

Core OS

Some major core additions that got added were in the type of the lockscreen safety and security as well as data usage management. You can now have Android acknowledge you through the front dealing with video camera to unlock your screen. This function is quite neat however did not work well in the event stream. Also, you can now handle data usage within Android from a settings menu. You can see present usage, projected usage, as well as handle usage down to the applications themselves. Google updated Android’s Voice Command manage to begin up quicker as well as be much more accurate. It still seems extremely fundamental as well as its certainly no Siri. Multitasking has likewise got a facelift, which now provides just recently opened apps in a cards-view.

Overview

Ice cream Sandwich looks solid however this is coming from viewing a presentation over a online feed. To truly make a determination, I will requirement to get my hands on it. up until then, I can’t state that I am thoroughly impressed. The reason for my final thought comes from Android just slowing down after a couple of months of usage. I do like the concept of establishing ICS for the hardware as well as I hope that extends past the Galaxy Nexus. only time will tell as well as I hope Google can thrill me.

Full listing list of features as well as screenshots of Android 4.0 Ice cream Sandwich can be discovered on the official Android designers site here.

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