Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich

Folders on the main screen and the tape Favorites

New folders on the home screen offers a new way for users to group their apps and shortcuts logically, just by dragging one another.From the All Apps menu, users can now simply drag an app to get information about it or immediately uninstall it, or disable the pre-installed applications.

On the screens of small devices available customizable favorites tray, which is visible from all screens. Users can drag and drop applications, shortcuts, folders, and other priority items in or out of the tray favorites for instant access from any screen.

The ability to adjust the size of the widget

Users can do more than just add shortcuts - they can insert the contents of the application directly through interactive widgets.Widgets allow users to check e-mail, flipping the calendar, play music, check social streams, and more - right from the home screen, without having to startapplications. The size of the widgets can be changed, so that users can expand them to show more content, or reduced them to save space.

New actions with a screen lock

Lock Screen now allows users to do more without unlocking.On the lock screen, users can go directly to the camera or to a drop-down notification window to check for messages. While listening to music, users can even manage music tracks and view album art.

Quick answers to incoming calls

When you receive a call, users can now quickly respond by text message, without having to answer the call or unlock the device.On the incoming call is available a list of text responses, select, send and end calls. Users can add their own answers and manage a list of settings.

Delete notification tasks and browser tabs swipe-way

Android 4.0 It makes managing notifications, recent apps, and browser tabs even easier. Users can now delete individual notifications, apps from the list of recent applications and lists of browser tabs simple flick of a finger.

Improved text input and spell checking

New keyboard in Android 4.0 It makes text input faster and more accurate.Error correction and word prediction when typing improved thanks to a new set of dictionaries and more accurate heuristics for handling cases such as double-typed characters, skipped letters,Missed gap. Offer words also improved and simplified the band suggested words, which will now show only three words.

To correct the misspelled words Android 4.0 Added spell checker that locates and underlines errors and suggests replacement words.One touch users can choose from several options to remove the word or add it to the dictionary.Users can even click on a word to see options for replacing the words are spelled correctly. For specialized features or additional languages, users can now download and install third-party dictionaries, spell checking and other text features.

Powerful voice input engine

Android 4.0 introduces a powerful new voice input engine that offers the possibility of a continuous "open microphone" and streaming voice recognition.The new voice input engine lets users dictate the text as much as they need to, using language that they need.Users can talk continuously for a long time, making even pause intervals if necessary, and dictate punctuation to create correct sentences.Once the dictated text is entered, the engine underlines errors by highlighting them in gray. After nadiktovki, users can take advantage of the underlined words to quickly replace them from the list of options.

Control of network data transmission

Mobile devices can make extensive use of data network streaming content, synchronizing data, download applications, and more. To meet the needs of users, Android 4.0 adds new elements management data through the network.

The application settings, colorful charts show the total data usage on each network type (mobile or Wi-Fi), as well as the amount of data used by each running application.Based on the planned injection of data, users can optionally set warning levels or hard limits on data usage or disable mobile datadata in general. Users can also manage the use of background data, which use individual applications as needed.

Designed for accessibility

Many new features significantly improve the availability of Android 4.0 for the blind and visually impaired users. The most important is the Explore Mode-touch, which allows users to navigate without having to look at the screen.Touching the screen causes audible feedback that identifies your position in the user interface; second touch at the same site enables online content.The new regime is particularly important to support users who use virtual buttons in the system tray, and not the individual physical buttons or trackballs.Furthermore, updated standard applications to offer improved access. The browser supports screen reader, which plays all the visible active content on the screen

Enabling accessibility starts during the first installation - a simple motion on the touch screen during installation (clockwise from the upper left corner) activates allspecial features and loads the installation guide. Once the special features are active, everything visible on the screen can be spoken aloud standard screen reader.

Communication and data exchange
People and profiles

The system-wide social group of users, profiles and contacts are interconnected and integrated for easy access.In the center is a new application People (People), which offers a detailed profile information, including a large profile picture, phone numbers, addresses and accounts, status updates, and a new button to connect to the integrated social networks.

Personal contact information is stored in the user's new profile "I" ("Me"), which makes it easier to share it with applications and people.All contacts are integrated user control displays, access to which is displayed with any integrated account or social network.Whenever the user moves through the system, pressing the profile photo brings up a menu with shortcuts Quick contact telephone numbers, text messages and more.

Single calendar, visual voicemail

To assist in the organization of meetings and events, an updated calendar brings together personal, work, school and social plans.With your permission, other applications can contribute events calendar and the reminders. Calendars are color-coded and users can swipe of a finger left or right to change the date, zoom in or out.

In the phone, in the visual voicemail features are integrated from incoming messages, voice transcriptions, and audio files from one or more suppliers.Third-party applications can integrate with the phone application to add their own voice messages, transcriptions and more for visual voicemail mailbox.

The rich and diverse capabilities of the camera

Camera application includes many new features. After capturing the images, they can easily be edited and sent to friends.

When taking pictures, continuous focus, exposure of zero shutter lag, and reducing the transition time from shot to shot to help capture clear, sharp images.For greater flexibility and convenience while shooting video users can now take pictures with full resolution video by simply clicking on the screen while the video continues to record.

To make it easier to take good pictures with people, built-in resolver individual finds faces in a frame and automatically adjusts the focus. For more control, users can press a finger into the place the focus at any point in the preview image.

To capture large scenes, the camera is a panorama mode, one-movement. In this mode, the user starts recording, and then slowly rotates the camera to capture the desired area. Camera assembles the full range of continuous images into one panoramic picture.

After taking a picture or video, users can quickly share it by e-mail, text messaging, bluetooth, through social networks, and more, just by clicking on a miniature camera control.

Processed Gallery app with photo editor

Application Gallery (Gallery) now allows easier to manage, display and share photos and videos.For managing collections, a redesigned album layout shows a lot of albums and offers larger thumbnails. There are many ways to sort albums, including the time, place, people, and tags.To help pictures look their best, the Gallery now includes a powerful photo editor.Users can crop and rotate images, to put levels, remove red eyes, add effects, and more.After retouching, users can select one or more photos or videos to send instantly via e-mail, text messaging, bluetooth, social networks, etc.

Superior Art Gallery widget allows users to view photos directly on your home screen.The widget can display photos in the selected album, shuffle pictures from all albums, or show a single image. After adding widgets to the main screen, the user can flick through a lot of photos.

Live Effects for transforming video

Live effects are a set of graphical transformations that make the captured video interesting and fun.For example, the user can change the background behind it to any base or to your Google Talk video chat.Also available Silly Faces, a set of morphing effects that use facial recognition and GPU filters to make funny facial effects during video capture.For example, you can use effects such as small eyes, big mouth, big nose, his face contracted, and more. Beyond the camera application, Live Effects is available during video chat application Google Talk.

Exchange screenshots

Now users can share screenshots of their screens even easier. Hardware buttons will make a screenshot and save it locally. Then you can view, edit and share photos.

Cloud service
A powerful tool for web browsing

Browser Android It allows users to instantly control the timing of Google Chrome bookmarks on all your accounts, jump to their favorite content faster and even save it for reading later in case the network will be lost.

To get the most out of the web content, users can now request full versions of Web sites, rather than their mobile versions.Now you can customize your preferences for Web sites separately for each browser tab. For large content content, users can save a copy for offline reading.To find and open saved pages, users can browse a visual list that includes bookmarks and history. For better readability and accessibility, users can zoom in on your browser and change the text size by default.

For all types of content, the Android browser offers significantly improved performance delineation pages by updating the kernel version of the engine WebKit and V8 Crankshaf for javascript.In tests on a device Nexus S, Android 4.0 browser showed improvement of nearly 220% over the Android 2.3 browser in the V8 Benchmark Suite and more than 35% in the SunSpider Benchmark 9,1 javascript.When running on Galaxy Nexus, Android 4.0 browser showed improvement of nearly 550% in the V8 benchmark and nearly 70% in the SunSpider test.

Enhanced Mail

The Android 4.0 email easier to send, read, and manage it.Made by email, improved auto-complete field helps the recipient to find and add the frequently used contacts quickly.To facilitate the input often send text, users can create quick responses and store them in the app, and then enter them with a convenient menu when composing a message. When you reply to a message, users can now switch between the Reply All and Forward without changing screens.

For the convenience of browsing through the accounts, the app adds an integrated menu of accounts.To help users find and organize IMAP and Exchange e-mail, are several subfolders, each of which contains the procedure for synchronization. Users can also search through the folders on the server, for faster results.

For businesses Email app supports EAS v14.It supports certificate authentication EAS, provides ABQ strings for device type and mode, and allows you to disable the automatic synchronization when roaming. Administrators can also restrict the size or disable the attachments.

To keep track of incoming mail more easily modifiable widget allows users to scroll through Email recent letter from the Home screen, then go to the Email application to create a letter or reply.

Innovation
Android Beam for NFC-based sharing

Android Beam innovative, convenient means of exchange between two NFC-enabled devices, it enables people to instantly share their favorite applications, contacts, music, videos - everything anything.Incredibly simple and easy to use - no opening, applications to run. Just lean the one Android phone to another, and then click send.

To share applications, Android Beam sends a link to a page in a particular application Android Market. On another device, the application starts and installs Android Market.Individual applications based on Android Beam can add other types of interactions, such as the transfer of records in the games, multiplayer games, or start a chat, and more.

Face Unlock

Android 4.0 It introduces a whole new approach to security devices, making it even more personal - Face Unlock is a new screen lock option, which allows users tounlock the device by means of their faces. It takes advantage of modern technology Face Recognition to register faces and confirm it when you unlock the screen.The user just need to hold the device in front of your face to unlock, or use a backup PIN or pattern.

Wi-Fi Direct and Bluetooth HDP

Support for Wi-Fi Direct allows users to connect directly to nearby devices via Wi-Fi. No need to have an Internet connection or make binding.With the help of third-party applications, users can connect to compatible devices to take advantage of new features such as instant file sharing, photos or otherthe media; streaming audio or video from another device, or when connected to a compatible printer, and other devices.

Android 4.0 also provides built-in support for connecting to devices Bluetooth Health Device Profile (HDP).With the support of third-party applications, users can connect to wireless medical devices and sensors in hospitals, fitness centers, homes, and other places. Moreover, for connection to a high-quality audio devices Bluetooth, Android 4.0 adds support for Bluetooth Hands Free Profile (HFP) 1.6.

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