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Key features of Android 5.0 Jelly Bean

Introduction

Sometime back Google released Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich featuring on Samsung Galaxy Nexus or as is better known as Google Nexus Prime. Android 4.0 is a combined OS for smartphones and tablets. Both the tablet and the OS are combination of their predecessors. While Android Ice Cream Sandwich has been made combining the best features of Honeycomb and Gingerbread, Samsung Galaxy Prime is the combination of best features of the Galaxy series and Google Nexus. Now it has been confirmed that the name of the next Android in line i.e. Android 5.0 will be Jelly Bean. The reason of selecting this name is that all Androids have been named on desserts and considering the fact that there are very few desserts which start with the alphabet ‘J’ (all other Android versions are named on some or other desserts- C (Cupcake), D (Donut), E (Eclair), F (Froyo), G (Gingerbread), H (HoneyComb), I (Ice Cream Sandwich)) this name is the best choice.
There has been some news that Android Jelly Bean will be finally released in the third quarter of 2012. I will update you with its features as soon as the OS releases.
Meanwhile, here are the few most anticipated features of Android 5.0 Jellybean:

Browser in Android 5.0 Jelly Bean

Android 4.0 has came with a lot of cool features like the fancy tabbed browsing from Honeycomb and the super fast speed of browsing from Gingerbread. There is support for Chrome Bookmark sync service in Android 4.0 too, however, the faster browser courtesy Google- Google Chrome is still not on Android devices. So now the next version should be a mobile version Google Chrome with constant on-screen tabs along with bookmark bar. Other platforms like iOS using Safari and Windows mobile using IE have already done this in their platforms so it is high time now that Google does it too.
Update: In the start of February Google has released Chrome browser for its Android OS. It supports HTML 5, is fast like desktop Chrome browser, has a zoom feature to help people with fat finger syndrome where users tap at the wrong place on screen and also supports incognito mode for your private time with your smartphone.
Users have the option to stay with their old browser, otherwise they can update to Chrome from the Android Market. It is available both for tablets and smartphones on Android 4.0 ICS.

File Manager

Now when every other smartphone and tablet is filled with so much of music and videos that even the 32 GB memory looks less then it is obvious that we are going to need a file manager app in our Android devices to manage these infinite files. Though some good manufacturers are now providing File Managers in stock Rom but it will be better if Google itself adds this app in the OS Android 5.0 itself.

 

Keyboards

Android tablets or smartphone owners are practically exploit for keyboards choices. In the absence of any Google designed keyboard, Swype and Swiftkey have stepped up to the task and have provided high quality keyboards. Though Google should not bereft users to use these keyboards but a standard keyboard in the Android OS itself will solve some issues.

 

 

 

Timely upgrades

 Android updates and upgrades take too much time. It is too agonizing to wait this long for an update. Launch of all Android versions including the widely used Android 2.0 and the recently released Android 4.0 ICS took a lot of time in their released after their previous versions. However, the reports say that many users have still not migrated to Android Ice Cream Sandwich. This might make Google delay the launch of Android Jelly Bean so that it can study the reason of this low penetration and correct those faults in Android 5.0 Jelly Bean. I just hope that the launch is not delayed much and we got to see some new changes soon.