Jelly bean features revisited!

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You all might be wondering whats new in the current update of android(4.2 Jelly bean)
So..here i have listed all the newbies coming with this version
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Here comes the 50 new features in Jelly bean :


1. Say "Google" to search
If you're in America, you can open
Google Now and say "Google"
followed by your query to search
the net. If you're not in America,
you can trick Android into
thinking you are. Open the
settings on your device, choose
"Language and input", then
switch Google Voice Typing's
language from "Automatic" to
"English (US)". Next go to Google
Now's settings and again change
the language to "English (US)".
You should see "Search or say
Google" in Now's search bar.
Faking an American accent:
optional.
2. Now settings
You can open now in two ways -
either swipe up from the Home
icon, or swipe the lock icon up
when the screen is locked. When
you first start it, Now will run
through the basics of what it
does, and even show you some
example cards. In Now's settings,
you'll find each card has its own
notifications settings, which apply
to both the Now homescreen and
the Notification shade. Standard
means that new cards are
accompanied by a ringtone and
vibration, Low priority places
them at the bottom of the list
without any notification, and off,
well, turns them off altogether.
3. Talk to Google Now
Google Now also includes Siri-
like functionality, supplying
spoken answers to your inane
questions. Try things like, "what
time is it in Kuala Lumpur?",
"when's Tom Cruise's birthday I
want to send him a card?", "how
do I get home?" or "will it be
sunny tomorrow?" and Now will
speak the answer back at you or
search the web for relevant
pages.
4. Get more Google Now cards
Google Now presents relevant
information such as weather and
places on "cards". To begin with
it may be a little sparse, but
searching the web from any
device will give you more. Just
make sure your web history is
enabled: visit history.google.com,
hit the settings cog and ensure
that Web History is on and not
paused. Next, search Google for
favourite football teams, planned
flights and destinations and the
relevant cards will pop up
automatically.
5. Notification Shade
We previously referred to it as the
"pully-down menu thing", but
apparently it's officially called the
"Notification Shade". Niftily,
certain notifications in the shade
can be expanded by sliding two
fingers outwards on them, giving
you an overview of the subject
headers in your email inbox, for
example. Moving two fingers
inwards on a notification neatly
contracts them, too.
6. Rotation lock
You're sitting on a plane
watching a vid in horizontal
orientation. Suddenly, the plane
banks sharply to the left and - oh
no! - the video changes
orientation. This worst-case-
scenario can be avoided by
tapping the rotation lock in the
Notification Shade, which keeps
the screen in its current
orientation. Tap it again to
unlock the rotation.
7. Turn notifications off
Install enough apps and the
notification bar at the top of your
Android device becomes the
digital equivalent of an unending
stream of ticker tape. In fact,
Airpush is an entire advertising
company that makes money in
this way. Fortunately, each and
every app you install in Jelly
Bean has the option to turn this
off. Go to its info page under
Apps, uncheck the box labelled
"Show notifications" and enjoy
your empty notifications bar.
8. Equalise your music
The ability to adjust those all-
important bass and treble
settings has been sorely missed
on Android devices - so much so
that a bunch of apps have been
made to enable it. It's fixed in
Android's stock music player,
though. Open a music file in the
stock player, hit Settings then
choose Equaliser. Here you'll find
manual sliders, a load of presets
and bass and 3D effects.
Unfortunately it doesn't work for
the whole device, but it will give
your tunes a little more oomph.
9. Rearrange your home screens
Long-press on any icon or widget
on your homescreen and you can
move it around, and other icons
and widgets will shift out of the
way to fit it in. Bigger widgets
can also be resized by long-
pressing and releasing them, and
then dragging the circles that
appear on the edges. It's actually
quite fun and satisfying. We just
spent three hours doing nothing
but this.
10. Fling to remove
Homescreen app clutter (surely
the worst of all types of clutter)
can be quickly and easily
defeated. Long-press an icon or
widget, then fling it upwards and
it'll ascend into shortcut heaven.
This won't uninstall the app,
though - it'll still reside in your
app drawer.
11. Owner info
Wait! Put down that blunt rock
you were about to use to chisel
your contact details into the back
of your Android device! Jelly
Bean includes the ability to
display a few lines of contact
details on the lock screen, such
as your email address, name and
phone number. You'll need to
enable a screen lock from
Security, and then you'll see the
Owner info option appear. This
information is mirrored across all
Jelly Bean devices, too.
12. Access App info
The all-important App info screen
- which allows you to uninstall,
stop and disable apps - can be
accessed in a completely new way
with Jelly Bean. Pull down the
notification shade, long-press on
an open task and you'll be taken
straight to the settings page for
the relevant app. It's handy if you
don't know which app displayed
the notification.
13. Volume controls
You can now set the volume for
all the noisiest bits of your
Android device individually. Press
the volume up or down key and
you'll the familiar little slider with
a settings icon to the right of
this. Tap this and you'll see
separate sliders for media, and
notifications and ringtones.
Bonus tip: each of these sliders
can be, er, slid, with your finger.
14. Talkback
Designed for blind and low-vision
users, Talkback provides an
ongoing narration of what's
displayed on your phone or
tablet. You can turn it on via
Accessibility, and then you'll be
taken through a tutorial of its
functions. It's a very different way
of navigating your device, and
quite interesting to experience. It
also supports braille input and
output devices via USB and
Bluetooth.
15. Blink to unlock
While face unlock is smart and
quick, more paranoid users may
worry that a ne'er-do-weller could
somehow steal an image of their
face - or their actual face - and
use it to access the device.
Android's Liveness check requires
the user to blink before the device
is unlocked, preventing access if
a quick eye-shut isn't detected.
16. Offline speech-to-text
Being able to dictate long and
rambling texts to loved ones is
quite an old Android feature, but
it's just got a whole lot better
with an offline mode. Go to
Google voice typing settings
under Language & input and
choose Download offline speech
recognition. Now you'll be able to
dictate that great novel without
being distracted by Reddit.
17. Beam it across
Android Beam works with near-
field communication (NFC) to
enable fast data exchange
between two devices. You'll need
to make sure it's enabled first -
you'll find it under Wireless &
networks. You'll also need to
know where the NFC area is on
your device. This isn't a problem
for phones, but it can be just
about anywhere on the back of a
ludicrously large tablet, so do a
quick Google to find out where it
is.
18. Simple secure pairing
Simple secure pairing works
alongside NFC to provide a quick
and easy way to connect
Bluetooth accessories such as
headsets, speakers and
keyboards. You don't actually
need to do anything other than
activate NFC to use it, but make
sure whatever you're pairing with
is Simple secure pairing-
compatible.
19. Calendar notifications
Any events you've been invited to
via Google Calendar will show up
in the notifications blind. From
here you can expand it and
quickly send a pre-defined
response (Such as "I'll be there in
10 minutes") or type your own.
Quick responses can be edited
from within the General settings
of the Calendar app itself. Perfect
for you social butterflies.
20. Gallery views
Android snappers will love its new
gallery features. Pinch on photos
to zoom out into a filmstrip
mode, where all your pics are
displayed side-by-side. Swipe left
and right to browse all your
snaps quickly, and slide up and
down on individual images to
delete them. The gallery then
gives you just enough time to
realise you've canned the wrong
thing and undo your delete.
21. Wi-Fi savings
It's all too easy to run up costs
when you're on public or mobile
WiFi. Tethering a tablet to a
phone can suck a surprising
amount of data, and public WiFi,
such as that found in hotels,
sometimes have ridiculously strict
usage policies. In Jelly Bean's
Data usage settings you'll find
the option to designate certain
WiFi networks as Mobile
hotspots, which stops background
apps accessing data and could
save you lots of cash. If there's
another Jelly Bean device on the
same network it'll pick up its
Mobile hotspot settings, too.
22. Try the stock keyboard
The Swiftkey keyboard is
enormously popular among
Android users, and for good
reason: it monitors your typing
and grammatical style uses this
to predict words. Jelly Bean's
keyboard now offers the same
functionality, using bigram
prediction and correction to
complete words and sentences.
We've found it to be every bit as
good as Swiftkey, and even
slightly faster and slicker.
23. Reboot to safe mode
Ah safe mode, the saviour of so
many Windows PCs. Thanks to
the sheer amount of dodgy apps
on the Play Store it's on Android
now, too. Long-press the power
button, then long-press the
Power off option. Choose OK to
reboot in safe mode, which
completely disables all third-
party apps on your device. Then
hunt down and destroy that
nefarious bit of software..
24. Reset app preferences
Android gives you loads of
different options for each
installed app, and on the whole
this is a very good thing.
Sometimes it can be a bad thing,
though: you may find your phone
playing up because a crucial app
has been disabled, or you've
changed the notifications for
something important like emails.
In the apps drawer, you'll find
Reset app preferences under the
settings. This resets all your apps
on a global level, returning
actions and data settings to their
original levels.
25. Add emojis
"Emojis" are the Japanese
version of emoticons, and like
most things from Japan they're
much better and cooler than their
western counterparts. You can
enable emoji support for the
default Jelly Bean keyboard by
choosing Language & input in the
settings app, then going to the
settings for the stock Android
keyboard. Here, choose Add-on
dictionaries and select Emoji for
English words. When you next
type certain words (there's a
complete list here ) you'll see its
symbol appear in the predictions
bar. It's like Wingdings never
died.
26. Sound search
The good news: Google has
created its own version of
Shazam. Known as What's that
Song?, the widget works in much
the same way, matching snippets
of music to its database and
providing you with the artist,
track and album. The bad news:
due to licencing restrictions it's
only available in certain
countries, and we don't live in one
of them. Keep an eye on your
widgets tray when you update,
though - Google could well re-
implement it in the future.
27. Add accounts
Android devices - especially
tablets - are great for passing
around and sharing. But until
now switching between various
Google accounts has involved
wiping the whole device and
starting again. Jelly Bean's
handy Add account feature takes
pride of place in the settings app,
making it easy to add multiple
Gmail addresses to your device.
There's still no quick way of
switching users, but it is a step in
the right direction.
28. Take and share screenshots
The number of times we've
pressed the power button and
volume down to take a screenshot
is truly astonishing. It gets even
better in Jelly Bean - as soon as
you've taken a screenshot, you
can expand its notification from
the blind and share it from there.
Perfect for showing off just how
handsome and brilliant Android is
to your iOS friends.
29. Device encryption
Paranoid users with sensitive
materials on their devices love
encryption: it basically scrambles
all your content so it can't be
read by hackers or thieves. It's
been a part of Android for a
while, but Jelly Bean gets it spot
on, even periodically reminding
you to encrypt your device. You'll
find Encryption under your phone
or tablet's security settings.
30. Voice searches on the go
Plug an Android-compatible
headset into your device, then
long press its button and voila:
Google voice search. You'll get
spoken results and answers
straight into your brain, and it
comes in especially useful if
you're lost but don't want to stop
listening to your banging,
disorientating tunes.
31. Add quick controls to the
browser
One of the options buried beneath
the Labs section of Android 4.0's
web browser is the Quick Controls
option. This adds a pop-out
menu to the browser, which pulls
in a little semi-circular collection
of shortcuts to the main browser
features, removing the URL bar
and giving you more screen to
play with. Also, holding down the
Back button is the Android
standard way of bringing up the
bookmarks and history tool, too.
But that's been around for years.
32. Long-press to uninstall
Long-pressing on an app within
the app drawer lets you drag it to
a Home screen, but it also pops
up a couple of menus along the
top of the screen. App Info gives
you the boring technical stuff
about how much memory it's
taking up, or you can fling it off
the other way to uninstall it.
33. Flying Android screensaver
One odd undocumented little
secret within Android 4.0 is this
strange little collection of flying
Androids, which you can... look
at. Look at for as long as you
like. To activate it, head into the
phone's About screen and
hammer away at the Android
Version tab and it'll all happen.
34. Save your eyes with inverted
rendering
Inverted rendering is a posh way
of saying it makes the pages
black and turns the text white, so
it looks like you're reading the
internet from 1997. It also
supposedly saves battery, plus is
easier on the eyes if you're
reading in the dark. It's under the
browser's settings tab, within the
accessibility area - and there's a
contrast slider, too.
35. Set a custom rejection text
message
When your Twitter action is rudely
interrupted by someone actually
telephoning you, there's a polite
way to give the caller the boot.
Android 4.0 lets users ping a
rejection text message to callers -
and you're able to customise this
too. Just answer a call and ping
the lock screen notification up to
access to custom rejection
messaging area.
36. Stop app icons automatically
appearing
One of the many new ICS features
is the way Google lets apps
automatically add shortcuts to
themselves on your Home screen
when they've finished installing.
It's useful, but if you're a control
freak and wish to remain 100% in
charge of your Home layout, head
to the Google Play app's settings
tab and untick the Auto-add
Shortcuts toggle.
37. There's a Settings shortcut in
the Notifications panel
That little settings icon in the ICS
notifications area isn't just art to
fill the space. It's a shortcut to
your phone or tablet's settings
area. So use that instead of
giving it a Home screen icon slot
all to itself.
38. Manually close apps
Google's lovely new recent apps
multitasking menu also lets you
close apps quickly, should you
suspect one's gone rogue. A
Long-press within the Recent
Apps listing lets you visit the
app's info page, from where you
can easily force close it.
39. Remove the lock screen
It's possible to entirely bin your
Android 4.0 lock screen, making
the phone instantly turn itself on
when you press the power button.
It's a security nightmare, but if
your phone lives entirely on your
desk and you demand instant
access without any unlocking,
head to Security > Screen lock
and select none. Then be very
careful.
40. Folders in the dock
Android's new official love of
folder formation makes it dead
easy to combine app shortcuts
and make folders, simply by
dragging one icon on top of
another. You can make these
groups of apps even easier to
access by dragging a folder onto
the ICS floating dock, meaning
you can squeeze stacks more
content on to each creaking
Home screen.
41. Take photos while recording
video
The Android 4.0 camera app that
arrived with the Galaxy Nexus has
one cool little extra feature - the
ability to fire off still photos while
recording video clips. Simply
tapping the screen takes a shot
at full resolution, which is saved
to the phone's gallery while the
video's still happily recording
away.
42. Bin animations and
transitions
Hidden within the Developer
Options section of the Ice Cream
Sandwich software are quite a
few nerdy ways to adapt your
phone. Most won't be of any use
to those who are just using their
phone as a phone, but if you
want it to feel faster, or at least
look a little different, the
scrolling, zooming effects on
windows and menus can be
edited in many ways.
43. Take a grab of your phone
Screen grabbing of your phone's
display is finally in Android. On
the Galaxy Nexus, it's activated
through holding the power button
and volume down switch. On
HTC's new models it's done by
holding the power button and
pressing Home. Other phones had
different techniques for doing this
before Ice Cream Sandwich, but
it's good to see this now
becoming part of the standard
Android feature set in Android
4.0.
44. Long-press dotted words
When typing on the Android 4.0
keyboard, you may see some
suggested words appear with the
"..." icon beneath. Doing a long-
press on this one will pop up a
much bigger window of suggested
words, letting you bail out on
some of that tedious typing a
little quicker.
45. Add additional faces
The ICS face unlock feature, as
found in the Galaxy Nexus, lets
you unlock it by scanning your
face with the front camera. Which
is great, but what if you haven't
shaved for a month? The software
can actually store multiple
images of your face, so you can
do left parting, right parting,
shaved, unshaved - or even add a
trusted a friend to the visually
verified user list.
46. Experiment with GPU settings
Another hidden little gem found
within the Development options
tab is the hardware acceleration
'Force On' toggle. This makes ICS
attempt to boost the performance
of any apps that don't already
use the feature. It may also break
them in the process, though, so
it's something of a trial and error
fiddling exercise to do on a very
rainy day.
47. Type like an adult
Make a stand for grammatical
standards in this day and age by
long-pressing on the stock
Android 4.0 keyboard's full stop
button. This brings up such
doomed punctuation as commas
and speech marks, plus even a
semicolon for the extra brave
mobile typist.
48. Nick wallpapers off the
internet
Found a lovely photograph of
some stars, a pretty computer
generated planet or even the
mighty Professor Brian Cox
himself? Long-pressing on any
image in the web browsers lets
you instantly set it as your
wallpaper, without the hassle of
saving it, finding it, and setting it
the long way.
49. Limit background process
If you fancy an even more serious
bit of fiddling, the same ICS
developer area contains the
option to "limit background
process" demands by the OS. You
can use this to stop your phone
or tablet storing so many apps in
memory. Whether this has any
effect of the actual battery life of
us users is up for debate, but
again, it's something to play with
and see if it suits your phone use
patterns.
50. Quickly access Notifications
Here's a simple yet huge change
Google's made in Android 4.0 -
the Notifications pane can be
accessed from the lock screen.
Press power, touch the
Notifications area, then scroll
down to read your latest
messages. Obviously it's a bit of
a security risk and lets anyone
access your messages, so best be
careful.

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