Android 4.1, the jelly bean as it is nicknamed is by far the smoothest and fastest version of Android
Jelly bean has improved on the simple yet beautiful Android 4.0.
New features on Android 4.1, Jelly bean
- Fast and Smooth
Everything with this new OS feels like fluid, fast and smooth. It is as simple as turning pages to move between homescreens, access apps. Its touch responses and reactions are more reactive and uniform. Jelly bean boosts your device’s CPU instantly when the screen is touched and makes the Android device more responsive.
- Expandable and actionable notifications
The notifications are now expandable, customizable and they expand and collapse. You can now, without actually going into the app perform various app related actions from the notification of the app itself. This implies more work with less clicks.
- Widgets
With jelly bean you can personalize your home screen more easily. When widgets are placed on the screen everything else is moves away to make room on the screen. The widgets are re sizeable. Application launching and returning back home is much smoother and faster now.
- Camera
With just a swipe over the camera, it switches to film strip view, where you can quickly view the clicked photos and also delete the ones you do not like with just a swipe. Photo sharing is as fast as the breeze.
- Smarter key board
Text input options have been improved in the Jelly bean. As usual it supports regular touch based typing but also has an alternative, the improved voice base typing. 18 extra language are supported, better dictionary and predictive text is available on the stock keyboard.
- Accessibility
The new jelly bean improves accessibility of Android phones to various potential buyers which includes blind users. With the Jelly bean’s voice and gesture based interactions it is very easy for the visually challenged people to access the Android phones. Jelly bean devices can connect through Bluetooth with third party Braille devices.
- Android beam
With Android beam, photo, video sharing can be done with a small tap. Users can share images, videos, contacts, apps, directions etc between NFC devices and NFC-ready handsets will be able to instantly pair with Bluetooth devices, again, by simply tapping them together.
- Google Search
The search experience has improved in Android with Jelly bean. The new search offers a voice search, Google Now and new user interface.
A new look for Search-Using the power of “Knowledge graph” Jelly bean offers search results in a richer way.
Voice Search-Now you can just speak for your search query or just ask a question and Android lest you search your query with your voice and it is of great convenience to get the answers fast. It is powered by the “Knowledge graph”, answers to you. It answers precisely, provided it knows it.
Google Now-Google now gives you information about the weather, traffic updates, train timings, sports scores etc. All this happens automatically and throughout the day. In short it keeps you posted.
These are all the outstanding features of the Android’s latest OS Jelly bean. and for more updates.
