The Android: The New Android 4.0 Stuning Features

The Android: The New Android 4.0 Stuning Features: Introducing Android 4.0 Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) is the latest version of the Android platform for phones, tablets, and more. ...

The New Android 4.0 Stuning Features

Introducing Android 4.0

Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) is the latest version of the Android platform for phones, tablets, and more. It builds on the things people love most about Android — easy multitasking, rich notifications, customizable home screens, re sizable widgets, and deep interactivity — and adds powerful new ways of communicating and sharing.

Simple, Beautiful, Useful Refined, evolved UI which you never imagined before

Refined animations and feedback throughout the system make interactions engaging and interesting. An entirely new typeface optimized for high-resolution screens improves readability and brings a polished, modern feel to the user interface. Set of virtual buttons which helps to navigate from Home Screen to Apps and back to Home Screen from Apps.

Multitasking is a key strength of Android and it's made even easier and more visual on Android 4.0. The Recent Apps button lets you jump instantly from one task to another using the list in the System Bar. The list pops up to show thumbnail images of apps used recently — tapping a thumbnail switches to the app.

Home screen folders and favorites tray

The Fastest way to interact with the Apps Now New home screen folders offer a new way for you to group your apps and shortcuts logically, just by dragging one onto another. Also, in All Apps launcher, you can now simply drag an app to get information about it or immediately uninstall it, or disable a pre-installed app. On this smaller Screen device now you can easily manage favorites tray for quick access.

Resizable widgets

Home screens in Android 4.0 are designed to be content-rich and customizable. You can do much more than add shortcuts — you can embed live application content directly through interactive widgets. Widgets let you check email, flip through a calendar, play music, check social streams, and more — right from the home screen, without having to launch apps. Widgets are resizable, so you can expand them to show more content or shrink them to save space.

New lock screen actions and Amazing unlocking procedure

The lock screens now let you do more without unlocking. From the slide lock screen, you can jump directly to the camera for a picture or pull down the notifications window to check for messages. When listening to music, you can even manage music tracks and see album art.

Now unlock your phone by

• Facing your Android Phone with help of Face Recognition
• Backup Unlock Procedure by using PIN to unlock your Android phone

Quick responses for incoming calls

When an incoming call arrives, you can now quickly respond by text message, without needing to pick up the call or unlock the device. On the incoming call screen, you simply slide a control to see a list of text responses and then tap to send and end the call. You can add your own responses and manage the list from the Settings app.

Swipe to dismiss notifications, tasks, and browser tabs

Now Android 4.0 makes managing notifications, recent apps, and browser tabs even easier. You can now dismiss individual notifications, apps from the Recent Apps list, and browser tabs with a simple swipe of a finger.

Improved text input and spell-checking

The soft keyboard in Android 4.0 makes text input even faster and more accurate. Error correction and word suggestion are improved through a new set of default dictionaries and more accurate heuristics for handling cases such as double-typed characters, skipped letters, and omitted spaces. Word suggestion is also improved and the suggestion strip is simplified to show only three words at a time.

• Spell Checker
• Language Support

Powerful voice input engine

A powerful new voice input engine that offers a continuous "open microphone" experience and streaming voice recognition. The new voice input engine lets you dictate the text you want, for as long as you want, using the language you want. You can speak continously for a prolonged time, even pausing for intervals if needed, and dictate punctuation to create correct sentences. As the voice input engine enters text, it underlines possible dictation errors in gray. After dictating, you can tap the underlined words to quickly replace them from a list of suggestions.

Control over network data

An amazing check and balance on your Mobile data and network usage for

• Extensive use of network data for streaming content
• Synchronizing data
• Downloading apps, and more.

In the Settings app, colorful charts show the total data usage on each network type (mobile or Wi-Fi), as well as amount of data used by each running application. Based on your data plan, you can optionally set warning levels or hard limits on data usage or disable mobile data altogether.

Designed for accessibility

A variety of new features greatly enhance the accessibility of Android 4.0 for

•   Blind or visually impaired users
• Can easily update the standard apps
• Script support to the browser for favorite web content and navigating sites.
•   For improved readability, you can also increase the default font size used across the system.

Communication and sharing

People and profiles

Throughout the system, your social groups, profiles, and contacts are linked together .At the center is a new People app that 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.

 Unified calendar, visual voicemail

Now easily u can

• Mange your meetings, work, social agendas.
•  Setup your Reminders
•  Calendars are color-coded more interactive.
•  Third-party applications can integrate with the Phone app to add your own voice messages, transcriptions, and more to the visual voicemail inbox.

Rich and versatile camera capabilities

The Camera app includes many new features that let you capture special moments with great photos and videos. After capturing images, you can edit and share them easily with friends.

Redesigned Gallery app with photo editor

•  Powerful photo editor
• Share photos and videos
• Managing photos collections.
• Large thumbnail for your photos.
• Photo Geo Tagging.

Live Effects for transforming video

Now Android 4.0 gives you access to

Graphical transformations

Also available for video is Silly Faces, a set of morphing effects that use state-of-the-art face recognition and GPU filters to transform facial features on live video transformation 

Sharing with screenshots

You can now share what's on your screens more easily by taking screenshots. Hardware buttons let them snap a screenshot and store it locally. Afterward, you can view, edit, and share the screen shot in Gallery or a similar app.

Cloud-connected experience

Android has always been cloud-connected, letting you browse the web and sync photos, apps, games, email, and contacts — wherever you are and across all of your devices. Android 4.0 adds new browsing and email capabilities to let you take even more with them and keep communication organized.

Powerful web browsing

The Android Browser offers an experience that’s as rich and 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
• Desktop Version of all websites
• Tab Browsing
• Offline reading of Web Pages.
• Zooming the Web Pages and many more.

Improved email

·         In Android 4.0, email is easier to

• Send, read, and manage emails.
• Compose your emails.
• Improved auto-completion of recipients.
• Support for  enterprise Email Setup like EAS v14.

Innovation

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

·         Incredibly simple and convenient to use

·         Just touch one Android-powered phone to another, then tap to send.

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.

Through third-party apps, you can connect to compatible devices to take advantage of new features such as instant sharing of files, photos, or other media; streaming video or audio from another device; or connecting to compatible printers or other devices.

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.