As every year, the Google I / O, which is held in San Francisco, is the high mass of the world of Android. Here she opens tonight, or rather "this morning" at the time California, with an opening conference could not be more expected. Jelly Bean, tablet: Here are all the new features announced by Google!
"We still have some surprises to present", this was the beginning of the conference for developers Google, which attracted 6,000 people to the opening conference of the Google I / O. After a brief figures (100 million activations announced Android devices in 2011, Google passes millionscette 400 000 years, one million every day against 400,000, more than 200 to 300% in countries such as France) , new places for the most anticipated of the day: Android Jelly Bean and Google Nexus 7.
Android 4.1 Jelly Bean
Jelly Bean, which is not numbered but stamped 5.0 4.1, meets the "Project Butter", which wanted to make the Android OS a more fluid, more intuitive, faster. It has been solved many problems whose response touch screens, but also brought a little more speed in the 3D effects, with a display at 30 fps. Past these general considerations, which are recent additions to Android Jelly Bean? Before turning to the features include the release date of this OS version: available now for developers, it will be downloadable in the middle of July on three terminals, namely Google Nexus S, Galaxy Nexus and Motorola Xoom - the acquisition of Motorola Mobility by Google is obviously been there.
Android Jelly Bean
The home screen: welcomes resizable widgets, icons around which are organized automatically, or if the screen space is insufficient, such widgets to move themselves to a smaller format . Icons can be removed more quickly than Ice Cream Sandwich, by dragging them up - a movement in the spotlight with Android Jelly Bean.
The keyboard: Google has improved the predictive text dictionary, which will make several proposals for the terms you use most often. At the voice input, including demonstrations, in English, however, have proved particularly successful on the San Francisco scene, an off-line operation makes its appearance; remember that far, Wi-Fi or 3G needed. Google announces support the passage of 18 new languages.
The photo application: Here, as on the side of manufacturers of smartphones, Google has chosen to focus its efforts towards improving the speed of capture. We can discover a new animation between the photo, which can drag to the right once you took them. When the gallery opened, a pinch (pinch) will toggle a photo full screen a film scroll sideways. It is then possible to delete photos of a gesture by dragging them up.
Android Beam: More than one million Android NFC devices are delivered every week, remember Google. With Jelly Beam, it will be possible to send photos or videos clashing (tap) two well-equipped smartphones, and similarly for pairing Bluetooth devices. This new feature will be a little shade to Samsung, with its S Beam, was so far the only market to offer a little more than a sharing URL between terminals, but only between Galaxy S III.
Notifications: The notification bar will include a greater amount of information, and this in a slightly more accurate than in current versions of Android. Notifications are with Jelly Bean, customizable, and include a photo of contacts to call or send you messages. We appreciate the opportunity to recall a contact directly from a missed call notification, but also to send quick responses to emails (in the manner of these predefined SMS that can send when you can not take voice communication). In the social sphere, it is possible to add a photo to a Google +, but also Liker or comment on a check-in Foursquare, always directly from the notification bar. Presentation side, we notice that the first notification, ie one that is displayed at the top of the screen, and larger than the others, for readability. Nevertheless, it is possible to develop other notifications by dragging them down, which, for example an informative notification of application, permit the display of headlines and photo thumbnails. The first notifications are larger.
Searching the Internet: A feature that Google wanted to completely rethink. We thus find a new interface with a "Knowledge Graph" showing the results a little differently than traditional Google pages. Voice Search, a cousin of Siri, can conduct research with a voice phone that you answer in sentence form, while personalizing the page of search results. If you ask a smartphone Jelly Bean who was Prime Minister of Japan, he will answer with a sentence, but also by showing you a picture and short biography of the character. To switch to the usual Google search results, simply do clisser the map on the side.
Now Google is in turn intended to find the right information at the right time. The search system uses your Internet search history, your history or location of your calendar. In terms of traffic - and notice the resemblance flagrant recent additions announced in Nokia Drive for Windows 8 - the smartphone can estimate the most suitable route to get from one point to another depending on you route and usually of road traffic conditions. Public Transit can find schedules of public transport, Flight, to obtain the exchange rate and currency of the country where it becomes. Really useful, Next Appointment (next appointment) will send a notification to alert you that it is time to leave and he will tell you the path to get to your appointment, you will provide hours of public transport and a map of places. All these features included in Google Now are accessible from the search bar, but also by sliding the finger up from the bottom of the screen.
Play Google
No surprise when Google discusses cloud, because the current store of Android already runs on this system, with 600 000 applications and games, to 20 billion apps installed in total. As for paid applications, the Mountain View giant announces new partnerships with international operators. But what interests us most, what's new in the applications themselves, including the ability for developers to encrypt applications with Jelly Bean.
The Smart App Updates in turn will simplify the lives of developers, users as well as operators, which a little less data will be consumed: it will indeed need to download that part of the application that was update, and that alone. Good news, it will also work on Gingerbread.
Smart App Updates
Also in content, Google Play improves, since it is now possible to move up a gear in movies. It will be possible to buy movies instead of just rent them, just as you will be offered to buy episodes or seasons of series (launching today on Google Play). Magazines from Google also play either for numbers set to unity, or for subscriptions. Remains to be seen if this will be confined to the Americas, where if France will quickly right
Tablet: Google Nexus 7
Unsurprisingly particular, all information concerning having been delivered in advance of the conference, Google introduced its Nexus 7, its first tablet house. Designed as planned in partnership with Asus, the Nexus 7 has a 7 inch screen with a resolution of 1280 x 800 pixels, or a HD panel, but also a quad-core processor Nvidia Tegra 3 coupled to a 12-core GPU. Next photo, you will find a sensor on the front but not at the back, and whose resolution is unclear. All the connectivity of the moment will be on hand, with WiFi, Bluetooth and even the NFC. Google claims a battery life of 9 hours of HD video playback, and a weight of 340 grams. However, lips are sealed on the issue of internal memory, including rumors previously evoked two versions, one in 8 GB and 16 GB in the other state at, as the presence or absence of a microSD slot.
Google Nexus 7
Oriented multimedia, needless to say, the Google Nexus 7 should be sufficiently armed forces quad-core processor, to run all games of the moment. Google made to play, it will find its library on the home screen, maximize the experience of reading eBooks, playing with a full-screen, but also the virtual tour in Google Maps, which also will support the use of maps offline. Musically, What's This Song will, like Shazam to identify a song. Currents and Google allow the translation of news feeds in various languages.
Nexus to this last point 7: the tablet, as expected, will be the first device to ship Google Chrome as default browser.
Google Nexus 7
As for its price, here it is. The Google Nexus 7 will be priced at $ 199, with some bonus to the key, namely the film Transformers 3 offered $ 25 credit on Google Play and three magazines. The impatient regret that if pre-orders are open from this day for delivery from mid-July, it only affects the United States, Canada, UK and Australia. The rest of the market will follow, without further clarification at this time.
Google Nexus Q
Patty or not from Google, its Nexus Q has surfaced just before the opening keynote of Google I / O, but who cares, the developers being kind of guests, they feigned surprise brilliantly. For those who missed the information, the Nexus Q, in our view beautiful design object of spherical shape, and adorned with a black strip of light depending on the contents sent to it, is an accessory dedicated to streaming audio and video . As an amplifier (2 x 25W), it may be connected to speakers or a television screen. Its connectors are there to ensure compatibility with just about everything:
- WiFi
- Ethernet
- Bluetooth
- Micro HDMI
- NFC
- Micro USB
- Optical output
Google Nexus Q
Running Android Ice Cream Sandwich, 923 grams of mini computer with a diameter of 116 mm has a hardware interesting because, like a Galaxy Nexus, it loads a processor OMAP 4460 dual-core supported by a GB RAM and 16 GB of flash memory. Intended for home use, it can read the content in this cloud, that is from Google or Google Movies Movies, and only present in the cloud. It can be controlled by several smartphones and tablets, to distribute the sound or image through a house. It is even possible to share her music in the NFC in colliding with a mobile terminal.
Google Nexus Q
As the tablet of Google, the Nexus Q will be delivered from mid-July in the USA. Count still to this object as a technological design as $ 299.
