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New features in Jelly Beans 4.1 (August 17, 2012)
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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
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
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
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
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
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 destinationTraffic Card – Traffic conditions and alternate routesTransit Card – What buses or trains are next?Places Card – On the go, suggests nearby bars, restaurants and places of interestFlight Card – Flight delays and traffic conditionsSports Card – Live Score, upcoming games, buy ticketsCurrency Card – On the travel, check the local conversion rateTranslation Card – In a foreign country, quickly translate words into local language
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
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
Source: Google’s official change log for Jelly Beans 4.1Link : Ghttp://www.android.com/about/jelly-bean/gle’s official change lo