Google revealed a new version of Android and the new ' google phone '

Data Usage section in the settings menu.

company. Google. at the launch in Hong Kong has introduced a new version of the Android operating system with a serial number 4. 0. Its main feature was the ability to work on different types of devices - smartphones and tablets. The first device that will use Android 4. 0, will be a smartphone Galaxy Nexus, announced at the same event. His Google- manufactured by Samsung.

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The code name for Android 4. 0 - Ice Cream Sandwich - selected in accordance with the traditions of Google: they, like the previous code names, stands for dessert ( ice cream cake, sandwiched between two biscuits ) and preserves the continuity of the alphabet (Gingerbread - Honeycomb - Ice Cream Sandwich).

For the first time on the Ice Cream Sandwich was told in early May at a conference I / O. On it was mentioned in passing, as the highlight of the program was three Android. 1, but the most important detail of Google bosses revealed: Operating System will be universal, ie can be used on two different types of devices - smartphones and tablets. A similar strategy adheres to Google 's main rival in the mobile market - the company Apple, which develops the operating system iOS.

I can not say that the interface Ice Cream Sandwich is radically different from previous versions, but nevertheless the difference is noticeable to the naked eye. First, the new OS Honeycomb has inherited the ability to dispense with the hardware buttons. They were replaced by soft buttons. Three of them - ' Back ', ' Home ' and ' Running Applications ', and the Galaxy Nexus screenshots are located on the strip at the bottom of the screen.

Secondly, the presentation of the operating system Google announced a desire to be ' closer to the people ' and save the image of Android OSes for ' nerd '. ( Around the same time with the presentation of Ice Cream Sandwich in San Francisco held an annual Web 2. 0 Summit. It Microsoft chairman Steve Ballmer (Steve Ballmer) boasted that the Windows Phone can be used by anyone, and Android - only computer scientists ). In this regard, the Android 4. 0 have been several changes designed to make the OS easier and more intuitive.

Conventionally, these changes can be divided into two categories. First - it is solely decorative innovations, such as a new system font called Roboto or display avatars in front of the new SMS notifications. The second - the functional changes. So, the screenshots in the Ice Cream Sandwich can be done by holding the power button and volume down. In the setup menu appears Data Usage, which will monitor how much traffic ' eat ' different applications (the tendency to Android smartphones secretly from master to go to the internet and download the dozen or so megabytes of data - one of the major scourges of the platform).

Many innovations in the Ice Cream Sandwich were obviously borrowed from competing platforms. Yes, no doubt, the decision to make access to the camera button on the startup screen and has a reasonable right to exist in any mobile OS. But then, say, from the screen with a list of running applications in the Ice Cream Sandwich and breathes Windows Phone 7 as an opportunity to create a folder ' nataskivaya ' one application icon to another, has always been considered an attribute of iOS.


The changes undergone and the camera application. First, the Android device will now be able to glue a few shots in a panorama. Second, the camera settings, several ' hipsterskih ' filters that allow to take pictures in the spirit of Instagram. Finally ( for this application the camera is not the case, but nevertheless ), the Ice Cream Sandwich typed feature Face Unlock - it allows the device to recognize its owner 's face. Rather than set a password for unlocking phones, is now sufficient to bring the front of the camera phones to a loved one.

With Face Unlock, by the way, the presentation left a little embarrassing - and let the machine oboznalsya into the wrong person, so be careful.

As usual, Google does not name the list of devices on which you can install Android 4. 0. We only know that the update will be released for the Nexus S devices and Motorola RAZR ( no, not for the cult clamshell comes from the middle of the zero, and for a new smart phone, candy bar ). Other manufacturers such as HTC, while only thinking of the fact whether they want to see the Ice Cream Sandwich on their devices.

So far the only device that works on Android 4. 0 - is presented in conjunction with the new OSes Galaxy Nexus.

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In the early days of Android ' Google Phone ' call everything on the OS smartphones. Then it became clear that such devices are too many, and the title of ' google phone ' passed to the device from the line of Nexus, which are created with the direct participation Google.

New Nexus was the third ' guglofonov '. The first two - Nexus One and Nexus S - produced for Google HTC and Samsung. Choosing a manufacturer for a new machine, Google stopped again on the Samsung ( probably because of all the manufacturers to Android devices have achieved the greatest success of this company - it now holds the title of the second largest smartphone manufacturer after Apple ). Samsung custom Google complied - and along with his name dragged into its proprietary word Galaxy. So, the new ' google phone ' called Galaxy Nexus.

Galaxy Nexus paradox is that, on the one hand, it meets all the current trends smartfonostroeniya, on the other hand, is not very typical for Samsung devices. The latter fact, however, you can easily find an explanation - bitter experience of patent wrangling with Apple, the South Korean company said that specifically tried to make the device so that it was impossible for him to find fault.

Galaxy Nexus is equipped with an impressive display with a diagonal of 4.65 inches. There are no hardware buttons on the front panel there are no. The smartphone uses a dual-core processor with a frequency of 1.2 GHz and has a gigabyte of RAM and 16 or 32 gigabytes of internal. The thickness of the shell is slightly less than 9 mm, weight - 135 grams.

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Screen Resolution Galaxy Nexus - 1280 by 720 pixels. It is made of Super AMOLED technology. If you look at the device profile, it is clear that the screen is slightly curved.

In the smartphone two built-in camera. First, pyatimegapikselnaya, located on the rear panel and can shoot video at 1080p. Second, on the front panel has a resolution of 1.3 megapixels.

Galaxy Nexus is equipped with NFC chip. First, it allows him to communicate with other similar smartphones, which are nearby. To do this, Ice Cream Sandwich provides a service called Android Beam. Second, the chip will use the NFC phone to pay for purchases - such an opportunity has recently launched service from Google Google Wallet.

The price of the unit is not disclosed, but it is known that deliveries will begin in November. It was reported that the Galaxy Nexus will be available in Asia, North America and Europe. In Samsung Electronics' Tape. py ' assurances that Russia would like to sell the unit.

Svetlana Chistyakova.