New features in Android Jelly Bean 4.1
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Verbuzz Inc. announced new features for its Android-based mobile operating system including: Gesture mode for blind users to navigate the UI with speech output, improved performance across apps like the browser, calendar, and camera, as well as new features for notifications, international support, and enhanced integration with Google services like Search, Now, Play, and Maps.
New features in Android Jelly Bean 4.1
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- 2. New Features Gesture Mode: For the blind users to efficiently navigate the UI with speech output. Talkback, a screenreader supports gestures to navigate applications Android Beam: Easily share your photos and videos. Easy pairing with Bluetooth devices like headsets or speakers Audio accessories: Support for USB audio docks Browser – Improved performance, updated JavaScript engine, fast loading, better HTML5 video support, supports vertical text Calendar: More animations and easier navigation between the days, notifications for upcoming events let you email all the guests w/o opening the app with quick response messages, controls enabling consistent experience in using the app
- 3. New Features Camera/ Gallery: More animations, animating with visual feedback on your focus state, quickly review photos w/o leaving the camera app Data Usage: Intelligently enables or disables background data usage on the SSID Face Unlock: Faster, more accurate, improved face matching accuracy by calibration, ‘blink’ to unlock and tests the live person is unlocking instead of a photo
- 4. New Features Internationalization: Added support for bidirectional text and 16 international input languages. Keyboard: Custom keyboard input styles for more than 20 languages with keymaps for QWERTY, QWERTZ, AZERTY, Dvorak, Colemak and Pc styles Messaging/ Talk: New notification styles for the incoming messages and talk Notifications: Image preview notifications, touch-hold a notification to identify the application and uninstall the application if needed Networking: New setting that lets you stay on mobile data rather the nearby Wi-Fi networks with poor connections
- 5. New Features News & Weather: Improve freshness and power consumption People: Retrieves high resolution photos for Google contacts with public Google+ profiles. Reduced duplicates Phone: On missing a call, notification lets you to return the call or send a message with single click. More responsive call log. Visual voicemails can be played with a single click
- 6. New Features Settings: Easily view the accounts that you are signed into on your device. System: Reliable device encryption, override the ‘keep screen awake’ option from developer settings Voice Typing: New embedded speech recognizer lets you use voice typing even w/o an internet connection Widgets: Easy personalization on your home screen, automatic re-sizing when the widgets are big, launching apps and returning back home are smoother and faster Google Search: Faster, long press the headset’s button to activate voice search , spoken answer for voice searches, recognize queries even with poor network
- 7. New Features Google Now: Eye Candy of Jelly Bean 4.1, just the right information at the right time. Weather Card – Weather for your current location and destination Traffic Card – Traffic conditions and alternate routes Transit Card – What buses or trains are next? Places Card – On the go, suggests nearby bars, restaurants and places of interest Flight Card – Flight delays and traffic conditions Sports Card – Live Score, upcoming games, buy tickets Currency Card – On the travel, check the local conversion rate Translation Card – In a foreign country, quickly translate words into local language
- 8. New Features Google + : New magazine layout, create and manage G+ events right from your device, instant sharing of photos through party event, G+ a comment w/o even opening the app Maps: Support offline maps, select an area to cache and access it even when you don’t have a data connection, compass mode for indoor views and accurate street views, quick reviews with Zagat ratings built in, browse Google offers to spot local deals, indoor walking directions Currents: For editions that are in other languages, text can be translated into preferred language
- 9. New Features Google Play: New set of recommendations widget with content from people with similar tastes, things that are popular in your local area. Dynamic library widget with recent movies, books, magazines etc., Smart app updates with better download, battery consumption Google Play Books: Automatic text-to-speech settings enabled for visually impaired
- 10. Source: Google’s official change log for Jelly Beans 4.1 Link : G http://www.android.com/about/jelly-bean/gle’s official change lo