Read more.Much like iOS 6 - a streamlined experience - though in a different way.
Read more.Much like iOS 6 - a streamlined experience - though in a different way.
Have to say a lot of that second video, looks kinda like Metro....
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I'm going to argue both of those statements - first up, the blurb for Now says that it's merely a "reimagining" (ugh!) of existing data, in which case if you can access that info now then all Now's going to bring is easier/faster access. Although all that "predictive" stuff to me says "more data usage".
Secondly, what's the beef with the UI? I've been using ICS for a good while now (first Asus's version, now Samsung's) and it seems pretty intuitive to me. Pretty rapid too - which is definitely a good thing! I'm very sure it's no more difficult to use overall than the latest iOS.
Or - dare I say it - like webOS? Which would go someway to explaining what those webOS developers who left HP to join Google are up to now.
All in all not exactly "exciting" - e.g. any mention of "siri-like features" aren't exactly a plus point as far as I'm concerned. But I like (very much) the idea of the speed increases and reduction in memory foot print.
Just hope Samsung are quick to ship a ROM for the SIII of this, (and it'd be nice if Asus could do a TF101 ROM too - but that's just too much to even hope for).
so combining all these new google features theyve been working on. the cat detction computer, predictive keyboard inputing and google.now. will your android device now just randomly show you cat pictures (which are actually pictures of cups or a dog) and say to you:
"heres a cat, i know you wanted to look at a cat, i'm going to show you what i tell you are cats and i know you want to type 'show me cats' constantly, ooh look at the pretty cat."
and because of the google.butter guessing where your fingers are, you cant turn any of these things off because your android device doesnt think you want to.
just to summarise. cats are evil.
seriously though.
are all these new improvements going to have a noticeable effect on battery life?
e.g. a device that lasted 7 hours on 4.0 now only lasts 6 hours with all the predictive features turned on?
wonder when it will come to existing ICS devices... i want it.
I would also like to point out that THIS is how updates should be labelled. a few features added with a decimal point in the name rather than just throwing a whole new number its way. A complete overhaul would be the point where you say this is version 5.
I honestly hope they keep doing it that way as it just seems more professional and less deceiving to me.
I have this on my Galaxy Nexus now, courtesy of a few propellerheads over at XDA. The simplest way to get now it is to install ROM Manager, I spent an hour or so messing about with CWM and Fastboot to get this thing going.
Anyway, the result is pretty impressive. The Google Now voice search is comparable to Siri, the 'cards' that it shows you look to be really useful, for example if you have a calendar entry with a location then it will alert you if the traffic his heavy and you might need extra travelling time.
The UI is smoother, the Project Butter seems to have worked well. There are small updates to the Google apps that are quite nice (though these aren't strictly JB features).
I was seriously thinking if getting an iPhone 5 in the Autumn but now it's not so clear cut. I have an iPad and wanted the nice integration, like with the Podcasts app where it syncs your listening position. There is life in the Galaxy Nexus yet...
Still waiting for 4.0 on my Desire HD! Will probably never see this!
Biggest news was the pricing of their nexus tablet running 4.1:
Just £159 for a quad core Tegra 3 cpu, 1GB ram and 1280x800 IPS 7" display and 8GB storage.
https://play.google.com/store/device...id=nexus_7_8gb
[edit] thread here
http://forums.hexus.net/hexus-news/2...elly-bean.html
Last edited by mikerr; 28-06-2012 at 10:14 PM.
I have it on my Galaxy Nexus, the Google Now stuff is useful in the UK - a real world example for you...
I was away from home on a camping trip, Google Now placed a notification in the notification area to warn me about heavy traffic on the way home. It correctly guessed my home location (it asked me to confirm), then proceeded to tell me which road had the bad traffic...
^ yea I really like those feature.
Stuck it on the phone last night, doing good so far. The voice instructions worked well for me, but not when my mate gave commands.
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