Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0) is the latest version of Android platform for phones, tablets and other devices. It introduces the features people love most about Android like customizable home screens, easy multitasking, rich notifications, re-sizable widgets and adds powerful new ways of communication and sharing.
Refined User Interface Focused on enhancing the power of Android, Android 4.0 makes common actions more visible and lets you navigate with simple and intuitive gestures. Refined animations and feedback make interactions more interesting. A new typeface optimized for high-resolution screens improves readability and brings a modern feel to the user interface.
A spell-checker lets you find errors and fix them faster.
Virtual buttons in the System Bar let you navigate easily to Back, Home and Recent Apps. Multitasking is one of the powerful feature of Android and in Android 4.0 it’s much more easy and visible. Also, text input and spell-checking is much more improved and made intuitive in Android 4.0. A new powerful voice input engine offers a continuous “open microphone” experience and streaming voice recognition. It also adds new controls for managing network data usage which was not available until now. It was available only via third-party application. Improved accessibility enhances Android 4.0 for blind or visually impaired users.
Communication and sharing
Your social groups, profiles and contacts are linked together and integrated for easy accessibility. The new People app offers richer profile information, including a large profile picture, phone numbers, addresses and accounts, status updates, events, and a new button for connecting on integrated social networks. In the phone app, a new visual voice-mail features integrates incoming messages, voice transcriptions, and audio files from one or more providers. Third-party applications can integrate with the Phone app to add your own voice messages, transcriptions, and more to the visual voice-mail inbox.
The camera includes many new features like editing and sharing after capturing images. The gallery app is redesigned too offering image editing features. A new feature called Live Effects is a collection of graphical transformations that add interest and fun to videos captured in the Camera app. For example, you can change the background behind them to any stock or custom image, for just the right setting when shooting video.
Powerful web browsing
The Android Browser offers a rich experience which is as convenient as a desktop browser. It lets you instantly sync and manage Google Chrome bookmarks from all of your accounts, jump to your favorite content faster, and even save it for reading later in case there’s no network available.
Innovation – Introducing new capabilities
Android is continuously driving innovation forward, pushing the boundaries of communication and sharing with new capabilities and interactions.
Android Beam for NFC-based sharing
Android Beam is an innovative, convenient feature for sharing across two NFC-enabled devices, It lets people instantly exchange favorite apps, contacts, music, videos — almost anything. It’s incredibly simple and convenient to use — there’s no menu to open, application to launch, or pairing needed. Just touch one Android-powered phone to another, then tap to send.
Face Unlock
Android 4.0 introduces a completely new approach to securing a device, making each person’s device even more personal — Face Unlock is a new screen-lock option that lets you unlock your device with your face. It takes advantage of the device front-facing camera and state-of-the-art facial recognition technology to register a face during setup and then to recognize it again when unlocking the device.
Wi-Fi Direct and Bluetooth HDP
Support for Wi-Fi Direct lets you connect directly to nearby peer devices over Wi-Fi, for more reliable, higher-speed communication. Android 4.0 also introduces built-in support for connecting to Bluetooth Health Device Profile (HDP) devices. With support from third-party apps, you can connect to wireless medical devices and sensors in hospitals, fitness centers, homes, and elsewhere.
Well, we have highlighted some features of Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0). Hope you get some idea about this new Android platform. The full set of features of Ice Cream Sandwich is beyond the scope of this blog post.
Take A look Of Android 4.0 as a Video Introduction Below.
If any one of you is using Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich), please share your experiences via comments below.
Refined User Interface Focused on enhancing the power of Android, Android 4.0 makes common actions more visible and lets you navigate with simple and intuitive gestures. Refined animations and feedback make interactions more interesting. A new typeface optimized for high-resolution screens improves readability and brings a modern feel to the user interface.
A spell-checker lets you find errors and fix them faster.A powerful voice input engine lets you dictate continuously.
Data usage controls let you monitor total usage by network type and application and then set limits if needed.
Your social groups, profiles and contacts are linked together and integrated for easy accessibility. The new People app offers richer profile information, including a large profile picture, phone numbers, addresses and accounts, status updates, events, and a new button for connecting on integrated social networks. In the phone app, a new visual voice-mail features integrates incoming messages, voice transcriptions, and audio files from one or more providers. Third-party applications can integrate with the Phone app to add your own voice messages, transcriptions, and more to the visual voice-mail inbox.
The camera includes many new features like editing and sharing after capturing images. The gallery app is redesigned too offering image editing features. A new feature called Live Effects is a collection of graphical transformations that add interest and fun to videos captured in the Camera app. For example, you can change the background behind them to any stock or custom image, for just the right setting when shooting video.
Powerful web browsing
The Android Browser offers a rich experience which is as convenient as a desktop browser. It lets you instantly sync and manage Google Chrome bookmarks from all of your accounts, jump to your favorite content faster, and even save it for reading later in case there’s no network available.
Benchmark comparisons of Android Browser.
Android is continuously driving innovation forward, pushing the boundaries of communication and sharing with new capabilities and interactions.
Android Beam for NFC-based sharing
Android Beam is an innovative, convenient feature for sharing across two NFC-enabled devices, It lets people instantly exchange favorite apps, contacts, music, videos — almost anything. It’s incredibly simple and convenient to use — there’s no menu to open, application to launch, or pairing needed. Just touch one Android-powered phone to another, then tap to send.
Face recognition lets you unlock your phone with your face.
Android 4.0 introduces a completely new approach to securing a device, making each person’s device even more personal — Face Unlock is a new screen-lock option that lets you unlock your device with your face. It takes advantage of the device front-facing camera and state-of-the-art facial recognition technology to register a face during setup and then to recognize it again when unlocking the device.
Wi-Fi Direct and Bluetooth HDP
Support for Wi-Fi Direct lets you connect directly to nearby peer devices over Wi-Fi, for more reliable, higher-speed communication. Android 4.0 also introduces built-in support for connecting to Bluetooth Health Device Profile (HDP) devices. With support from third-party apps, you can connect to wireless medical devices and sensors in hospitals, fitness centers, homes, and elsewhere.
Well, we have highlighted some features of Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0). Hope you get some idea about this new Android platform. The full set of features of Ice Cream Sandwich is beyond the scope of this blog post.
Take A look Of Android 4.0 as a Video Introduction Below.
If any one of you is using Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich), please share your experiences via comments below.
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