Google announces Android 4.1 Jelly Bean

By paliknight - 06-27-2012, 11:00 AM - Boxden > BX Tech


		The next major version of Android is here. Carrying the name Jelly Bean, Android 4.1 isn’t as huge a leap forward as Ice Cream Sandwich was but still brings plenty of new stuff to the table. Firstly, Jelly Bean focuses on performance. More specifically, improving UI responsiveness. Google has dedicated a whole project codenamed Butter to improving Android performance. By making the vsync of the screen at a constant 60 frames per second, it makes the UI smooth as, you've guessed it, butter. It even goes as far as to anticipating where your finger is and start drawing from that point to make the UI appear even smoother. Google showed two Galaxy Nexus smartphones, one running Ice Cream Sandwich and the other Jelly Bean and showed the huge difference that project butter makes. It's really quite impressive. The keyboard typing is also improved, making it more predictive and adding more brains to the dictionary. On top of that, it’s made the Voice Typing work offline. On the demo it worked pretty well by fixing a misheard word (from Known to Though. Accessibility has also been improved adding new gestures and external support for Brail input.

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06-27-2012, 11:20 AM

This is a very nice incremental update. I was not expecting Google to make Android even smoother than ICS, at least not in this update. A constant 60fps is very smooth. GSIII with Jellybean FTW!

06-27-2012, 11:33 AM

Originally Posted by xeduran

This is a very nice incremental update. I was not expecting Google to make Android even smoother than ICS, at least not in this update. A constant 60fps is very smooth. GSIII with Jellybean FTW!

agreed, but good luck seeing it on anything but the international nexus anytime soon.

06-27-2012, 11:36 AM

I hope sprint doesn't take their sweet time with releasing this. I got an LG viper and they said it WILL get this update. I don't like this basic[..] OS. I need a jelly bean in my life.....

06-27-2012, 11:46 AM

Originally Posted by paliknight

agreed, but good luck seeing it on anything but the international nexus anytime soon.

Well I install custom roms anyway so I do not need to wait for Samsung. CM10 FTW!

06-27-2012, 11:57 AM

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Damn didn't android release ICS not too long ago?? Now they're already on foot pushing Jelly bean??? Boy Google is like Jordan's kicks with these fast[..] releases!!

06-27-2012, 12:14 PM

Originally Posted by Sivraj

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Damn didn't android release ICS not too long ago?? Now they're already on foot pushing Jelly bean??? Boy Google is like Jordan's kicks with these fast[..] releases!!

Google is not messing around. What I do like about Google is that even though they have a huge lead as far as Android devices in the market, they continue to improve their OS. Not just some stupid features being added, actual performance improvements.

Now if only phone manufacturers would learn to upgrade their phones quicker. Thankfully Samsung only has one new phone out now, GSIII. HTC needs to go to this model as well. Upgrading one phone is much easier than several carrier specific phones. CDMA users may still be left behind a bit though.

06-27-2012, 12:38 PM

Originally Posted by xeduran

Google is not messing around. What I do like about Google is that even though they have a huge lead as far as Android devices in the market, they continue to improve their OS. Not just some stupid features being added, actual performance improvements.

Now if only phone manufacturers would learn to upgrade their phones quicker. Thankfully Samsung only has one new phone out now, GSIII. HTC needs to go to this model as well. Upgrading one phone is much easier than several carrier specific phones. CDMA users may still be left behind a bit though.

Do you think somebody will come out with a touch and type based phone with Jelly bean?? If so I will consider [pic]...

06-27-2012, 01:28 PM

Even smoother than ICS?

[pic] iPhone type smoothness? [pic] Thank you, based Google. ICS was already smooth as !!.. smoother than that is icing.

01:43 PM

This is how you do an update. Revamped notifications, 60fps smoothness, Google Now, better voice search, better homescreen management, new Google Beam content, better predictive text, and offline speech to text. There is more I'm missing. But I didn't expect all of this in a .1 incremental upgrade. Meanwhile, the competition is just now getting up to speed with ICS in a full 1.0 jump. [pic]

Google should have played this to start their show:

[pic] YouTube

06-27-2012, 02:48 PM

Originally Posted by Sivraj

Do you think somebody will come out with a touch and type based phone with Jelly bean?? If so I will consider [pic]...

Maybe the next Droid phone. HTC has pretty much stated that they are not releasing any more touch and type phones. Samsung does not seem to be releasing any as well. Unfortunately that market is becoming extinct in Android phones.

06-27-2012, 03:01 PM

Hopefully SIII's will get this as soon as it drops.

06-27-2012, 03:05 PM

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06-27-2012, 03:06 PM

Im at work till late tonight... did they say when the update is gonna drop

06-27-2012, 03:24 PM

Originally Posted by fat_boyy21

Im at work till late tonight... did they say when the update is gonna drop

The SDK is available now for developers. Jelly Bean will come out for the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, Samsung Nexus S and the Motorola Xoom Mid-July

06-27-2012, 03:59 PM

Google not !!ing around. I will wait to see how this panes out and see if Apple makes major leaps with iphone 5 (which I doubt), if all is good I will be getting a new phone end of year.

06-27-2012, 04:54 PM

looks nice as always

06-27-2012, 04:55 PM

Originally Posted by P-Hill

Even smoother than ICS?

[pic] iPhone type smoothness? [pic] Thank you, based Google. ICS was already smooth as !!.. smoother than that is icing.

You don't think ICS is iOS-esque smoothness breh?

Originally Posted by e G o Maniac

Classic. [pic]

06-27-2012, 06:16 PM

Google>>>>

06-27-2012, 06:16 PM

Wow and this is why I love Google [pic]
I hope they get jelly bean asap for my gs3

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