Ice Cream Sandwich Android 4.0: Google provides more comforts on smartphones
These are how Ice Cream Sandwich Android 4.0: Google provides more comforts on smartphones with many apps features and functions
Google introduces the new “Android 4.0″ operating system “Ice Cream Sandwich” with even greater ease of use and features like “Face Unlock” – a mobile phone unlocking by facial recognition.
Release date of the new Smartphone Operating System
Together with the new Google Samsung Galaxy Nexus Prime revealed at a press conference in Hong Kong (October 19) the next generation of its smartphone operating system: Android 4.0, codenamed “Ice Cream Sandwich“. The first reviews from the experts: The Google software combines good ideas from competitors, and complement them with meaningful self-development.
The surface / Interface
The look of Android 4.0 is based on the Honeycomb operating system that Google brought out especially at the beginning of the year for Tablet PCs. These three controls are for “Back”, “Home” and “multitasking” that form on-screen icons as the final image down. Widgets can be customized in size, create new folders with a few typing commands.
More multimedia features
The photo mode is accessible on the fly via the lock screen. For photo enthusiasts Android 4.0 brings a fairly extensive editing software for videos and photos. The photographed images and clips are to be created much easier it is to pass on to others. In addition, the operating system has a panorama function for the cell phone camera in his luggage.
Speech and text recognition
Not quite as refined as Siri, but practical tip for lazy users: SMS messages, emails and other text messages can dictate to the phone. After tapping on the microphone icon, the phone activates the voice recognition. Who would you prefer typed benefited from improved on-screen keyboard, the touch registers accurately. A new spell checker ensures more comfortable texts.
Android Beam
By Android Beam replace data in seconds from: It is sufficient, two NFC-enabled (short for Near Field Communication) SIM briefly hold together. Other inputs by the user are not necessary.
Manage data volume
A connection overview shows information about the traffic that is originated by surfing and downloading. The user can create a limit or terminate services.
For smart phones, tablet PCs and Google TV
Ice Cream Sandwich is the fusion of the present lines of development and serves as a common operating system for smartphones, tablet PCs and Google TV devices. Despite performance-enhancing improvements of the system the developers want to keep the hardware requirements low. According to Google practically every cell phone that was shipped with Android 2.3, be upgradeable to the new version 4.
Impact on the app market
The programming interface in the system, Google has also been unified, so that the work easier for app developers in the future: The adaptation of an application to the particular system version is no longer necessary. This is likely to affect future diversity in the “Android Market”.
