Android 4.2, Jelly Bean New Version

Android 4.2, Jelly Bean

Android 4.2, Jelly Bean improves on the speed and simplicity of Android 4.1 and includes all new features – Photo Sphere and a completely redesigned camera app, new Gesture Typing keyboard, Google Now with all new cards, and much more.

• Everything in Jelly Bean feels fast, fluid, and smooth. Moving between home screens and switching between apps is effortless, like turning the pages of a book.
• Jelly Bean improves performance throughout the system, including faster orientation changes, quicker switching between recent apps, and smoother and more consistent rendering across the system through vsync and triple buffering.
• Jelly Bean has more reactive and uniform touch responses, and makes your Android device even more responsive by boosting your device’s CPU instantly when you touch the screen, and turns it down when you don’t need it to improve battery life.

Accessibility

• New Triple tap to enter full screen magnification when you enable 'Magnification gestures'.
• New Enable ‘TalkBack’, a screenreader for Android, right from the power menu.
• With Jelly Bean, blind or low vision users can use 'Gesture Mode' to reliably navigate the UI using touch and swipe gestures in combination with speech output.
• With the new accessibility focus feature, you can move a cursor between controls to maintain a target for the next action or a source for the next navigation event. You can double tap anywhere to launch the current item with accessibility focus.
• Text traversal in accessibility now gives you more control – choose to move between pages, paragraphs, lines, words or characters.
• TalkBack now supports gestures to trigger actions, to navigate applications, and traverse text.
• Android now offers full support for braille accessibility services (download BrailleBack on Google Play).

Android Beam

• With Android Beam, introduced in Android 4.1, you can easily share your photos and videos via NFC.
• Instantly pair your Android phone or tablet to Bluetooth® devices like headsets or speakers that support the Simple Secure Pairing standard by just tapping them together.

Google Now

Google Now brings you just the right information at just the right time, helping you manage your day, stay connected and be a local anywhere. And the best part? All of this happens automatically. Cards appear throughout the day at the moment you need them. Learn more.

• New Hotel card: Get one-touch navigation to your hotel when you arrive in a new city.
• New Restaurant reservation card: Be reminded to leave for the restaurant based on live traffic information.
• New Event card: Get reminders about events you purchased a ticket for.
• New Package card: See when your online orders ship.
• New Next appointment card: When you have an appointment, Google Now checks traffic so you can know how long it'll take to get there. You even get a notification for when you should leave.
• New Movies card: See showtimes and ratings for what's playing when you're near a theater. Also be notified when a movie you're interested in arrives at theaters.
• New Concerts card: See when your favorite artists have concerts at nearby venues.
• New Stocks card: Get real-time information about stocks you track.
• New Public alerts card: Receive emergency messages such as storm warnings and earthquake alerts.
• New Developing story & breaking news card: See breaking news and other developing stories that match your interests.
• New Nearby attractions card: See what nearby attractions are popular to visit.
• New Nearby photo spots card: Learn of popular photo spots nearby.
• New Time at home card: When you're in a different time zone, Google Now shows you the time at home so you never feel too far away.
• Flight card: Get real-time flight status and traffic information to the airport.
• Weather card: When you start your day, Google Now shows weather for your current location and work.
• Traffic card: Get traffic conditions and alternate routes before you leave home or work.
• Sports card: You can see live scores and upcoming games and also buy game tickets on the fly.
• Transit card: When you’re near a bus stop or a subway station, this card shows you what buses or trains are next.
• Places card: When you’re on the go, Google Now will suggest nearby bars, restaurants, and places of interest.
• Currency card: When you're traveling, quickly check the local conversion rate.
• Translation card: When you're in a foreign country, you can quickly translate words into the local language.

Google Apps

Calendar

• New Calendar can now be displayed as a widget on phone and tablet lock screens.
• New Calendar now auto completes when entering event titles.
• New New Google Feedback integration lets you give Google feedback and improve Calendar.
• Calendar is more buttery. Content fades in, animations are sprinkled throughout, and swiping/paging between days is smoother.
• Calendar will now display event colors if you've assigned your event a color.
• The 'Today' button on the action bar now shows the current day.
• When viewing an event’s details you can now email all the guests with a single tap.
• Notifications for upcoming events now display more of the event description to let you quickly see relevant details without having to open the app.
• Notifications for upcoming events now let you email all the guests without opening the app, and you can choose a quick response such as "Be there in 10 minutes" or type your own.
• A new option in Calendar settings lets you create your own default quick responses for emailing guests.
• You can now snooze an upcoming event reminder right from the notification.
• Calendar has a new 7” tablet layout.
• When viewing Calendar in portrait orientation on tablets, you can hide or expand controls to give you complete control over how you view your Calendar space.
• Calendar will now remember whether you've chosen to hide or expand controls so you have a consistent experience viewing Calendar whenever you open it.

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