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| Google Nexus 7 Tablet, Nexus Q Device and Android 4.1 Jelly Bean Officially Debut at Google I/O 2012 Posted: 28 Jun 2012 07:09 AM PDT
Less than 24 hours ago Google announced some products that we were all waiting for: the Google Nexus 7 tablet made by ASUS and Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. They also gave us the Nexus Q gadget, a sort of a mini Android PC, able to stream content from your Android devices. Let’s see what each of these products brings.
First is Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, that now provides a faster and smoother experience, increasing system frame rate to around 60 fps and also adding a power saving feature, that makes the CPU on the devices work at a lower frequency in standby mode and increase it back when the user touches the screen. Other features include Google Speech Recognizer, that gives the user voice-based typing even in absence of a data connection. The camera app also got updated and there’s a new function called Google Now, that relies on search history and location history to deliver useful info.
The most important announcement from yesterday was the Google Nexus 7, a powerful 7 inch quad core Tegra 3-based slate made by ASUS. This device was long time rumored and everything turned out to be true. We get a 340 gram light device with a front facing camera, $199 price tag in the 8GB version, a 1200 x 800 pixel resolution and 1GB of RAM. The device is bundled with some movies and magazines and can be preordered right now in the UK, US, Australia and Canada. It will be shipping in the middle of July, just when the Android 4.1 Jelly Bean arrives officially on the likes of the Galaxy Nexus.
And finally we have the Nexus Q, a device shaped like a sphere, that will be used to stream music and video around the house. It will be controlled by an Android tablet or phone, it costs $299 and it has pretty much the same specs as a Galaxy Nexus, including 16GB of storage, the same CPU and the latest Android on board. It’s sort of a mini PC that’s dependent on other devices for sharing content. Detailed video of the products are available below! Related posts:
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| Android Jelly Bean Boot Animation and Wallpapers Up for Download Here! Posted: 28 Jun 2012 04:00 AM PDT
Android 4.1 Jelly Bean was officially unveiled by Google yesterday during I/O 2012 and now some elements from that release have started popping up online. @kovdev made available the official Jelly Bean wallpapers through an installable app that you can download from here.
The files were extracted from the OTA update to Jelly Bean offered to the GSM Galaxy Nexus users at I/O. This pack of wallpapers will soon reach Google Play as well and in the meantime you can also get the Galaxy Nexus Jelly Bean boot animation from here. This requires a rooted device, while the wallpapers don’t. The boot animation requires the user to copy the .zip file to the handset and use a file manager to move it to /system/media/bootanimatiom.zip. Be careful so that you won’t lose the current bootanimation, so make sure you back it up or rename it. With all the tinkering going on right now with the latest Android software, I’d be surprised if by the end of the week we wouldn’t have a preliminary ROM with Jelly Bean included.
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