Google has a new phone Nexus, redesigned for Android
NEW YORK - Google has unveiled the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, the latest "Google phone" that serves as underwriters for Android devices.
The Nexus Galaxy smartphone has some impressive hardware, including a higher than normal 4.65 inch screen, an ultra-slim camera with virtually no shutter lag. But the most important innovation is Android 4.0 - the latest update of Google's mobile operating system, code-named Ice Cream Sandwich.
The new version of Android offers a number of improvements in the world - if not loved - smartphone operating system.
"While people like and need to Android, Android who do not love," said Matias Duarte, Director of Google's Android user interface, an event co-hosted by Google and Samsung in Hong Kong. "Android should be charming, seductive and something you can fall in love."
Google (GOOG, Fortune 500) considers that complies with the idea of giving a total makeover of Android Ice Cream Sandwich. The latest version of Android offers far more tablet-like experience, with interactive widgets of varying sizes, large thumbnails, and an interface without buttons.
Sandwich ice cream also comes with some innovative features like facial recognition technology, which will scan side to unlock the phone. The demo is not in the event Tuesday night, but Google says that the feature works.
And the new Android beam technology allows users to share virtually any type of content, application or contact by placing the phone back to back.
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Android 4.0 also has dozens of other useful improvements, such as the type of talk time, showing the words you say on the phone in real time and not after they finish speaking.
Users can also pinch to zoom in Calendar events, create folders, launching applications or contacts on the top of each other, and save pages for offline viewing.
The camera application has perhaps the biggest upgrade. In Ice Cream Sandwich, users can take panoramic pictures with their cameras and take pictures in rapid succession. The front camera can also track the movement of the eyes and rotate a 3-D image based on a user looking for.
If two or more people are sitting next to each other in a video chat, the camera application can know who is speaking and automatically focus on the person speaking.
Although many features were unique to Android, several improvements Sandwich ice cream seemed to have a competition page.
For example, gone are the four buttons at the bottom of the phone, keys for screen navigation and an Apple (AAPL, Fortune 500) iPhone-like "action bar" at the bottom of each screen. The action bar replaces the menu button, giving users the most used functions and the ability to change settings for a.
Like (MSFT, Fortune 500) Microsoft Windows Phone, Ice Cream Sandwich offers in line spell checking, large, interactive "town" tiles, and a stream of updates from friends on social networks in a new "people" the application.
And like the Research In (RIMM) BlackBerry Playbook Motion and Hewlett-Packard (HPQ, Fortune 500) now defunct webOS, Android 4.0 introduces a constant "movie based on" the gestural user interface - when a user is done with something, you can only film distance.
With the new Google mobile operating system, the same software that will be simultaneously available for smartphones and tablets for the first time. Today, smart phones and tablets to run two different operating systems - Pan Honeycomb.
The Nexus Galaxy, to be launched in November, is the flagship Android smartphone party. Google receives bids and proposals from various mobile phone manufacturers to make the device, which runs every year during the winter holiday season.
Samsung has made the Nexus device for the second consecutive year. The first Google phone, the Nexus One, manufactured by HTC.
Insignia subsequent devices will be closely scrutinized, if $ 12.5 billion bid from Google Motorola Mobility (MMI) passes through. Google said that Motorola would not automatically earn the right to make the next phone Nexus, and would offer along with other mobile phone manufacturers to build the device flagship next year.
No specific date or companies were announced for the Galaxy Nexus.
Google has a new phone Nexus, redesigned for Android
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