The internet has been abuzz with the launch of Android’s latest
Mobile Operating System and it comes in with lot of goodies including
NFC or the Near Field Communication in form on Android Beam!
Android’s Ice Cream Sandwich seems to be the most polished Android
ever. For the first time Android is talking about beauty and elegance.
Thanks to Guy Kawasaki, Android is now enchanting. At least the Android team thinks it is.
There are some significant improvements to make things easier and to make the Android experience less geeky.
While there are more features of interest on ICS, here are the top 5 which makes things simpler :
People App
ICS’s new People app works on the contact list and gathers the social
media activity. There are quite a few apps/startups who are working in
this space. They want to make Address Book sexy again. Xobni Smartr
is one such app. Drumbi is yet another app. Everyme is another
intelligent social address book app. I hope Android is trying to answer
all these apps with the People app.
Roboto
A new typeface completely worked from ground up. This gives Android a completely new look.
Android Beam
You can literally touch 2 ICS powered phones which are also NFC
enabled to transfer content. If you are viewing a web page on phone A,
then bring phone B and make it hug phone A and voila, the web page is on
phone B. A new way to share things.
Think of Andriod Beam as Bluetooth and Bump without the pairing and
with some excessive touch. The applications of nifty little NFC chips
are just far too many…think mobile payments for one…
Quick response
This is a quick text message you can send to someone who called you
at the wrong time. This is such a simple thing to implement, I wonder,
why no one has implemented it till now. A simple feature phone like
Samsung Corby had it much before than ICS. Better late than never.
Face Unlock
No more gestures and no more passwords. You can unlock your Android
phone with just your smile. Now you got one more reason to smile.
There are features like single motion panoramic camera, taking the
screen shot from the phone, WiFi Direct, rich notifications, multi
tasking, recent apps and enhanced Google+ experience.
Samsung Galaxy Nexus is the first Ice Cream Sandwich powered phone.
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