FollowGoogle and Samsung launched the latest Android OS Ice Cream Sandwich and the Galaxy Nexus smartphone Wednesday morning in Hong Kong.
We’ve broken down the long-awaited phone and OS’s new features, so that you can see exactly what is now brought to the table. Our pick for most impressive new feature is that glorious camera, which includes native features ranging from filters to panorama shooting.
- Big, fast and powerful: the Nexus Prime has a 4.65-inch display and LTE, runs one of the fastest 4G networks in the world and has a dual core 1.2ghz processor.
- Everything about this phone is smoother. There’s a new font optimized for HD, software buttons replace hardware buttons and the keyboard’s improved.
- Your face unlocks the phone, as facial recognition replaces a traditional pass code.
- The new and improved camera has zero shutter lag, autofocuses, takes low-light photos, stitches together images into seamless panoramas and shoots 1080p, time-lapsed video. You also have lots of instant editing options such as removing red eye, adding a “hipster” filter or cropping.
- The phone gives you a detailed analysis of your data usage, down to the very app sucking up all your bytes.
- Android Beam eases sharing between phones — simply bump your phone against another Android to transfer videos, maps or other content.
- Gmail and Google calendar have slick new looks and are integrated into the OS.
- The People app innovates your contacts list, linking individuals with all of their social profiles.
- You can multitask and view your recent apps.
- Developers can download the SDK starting immediately. The phone will ship to the U.S., Canada, Europe and Asia in November.
What do you think of Ice Cream Sandwich? Is it a game changer from Gingerbread or does it merely add some new bells and whistles?
Source: mashable
