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Google and Samsung Galaxy Nexus is everything you said it would be

Publié: octobre 19, 2011, 6:02am CEST par Tim Conneally

To celebrate the introduction of the newest version of Android, called Ice Cream Sandwich, Google and Samsung introduced the flagship Ice Cream Sandwich phone Tuesday evening, the Galaxy Nexus.

Continuing Google's naming culture where "Nexus" represents the most cutting-edge Android phones, the Galaxy Nexus offers impressive hardware to back up the impressive Android software update.

With a 4.65” (1280 x 720) Super AMOLED display, a 1.2GHz dual-core processor with 1GB of RAM and 16GB or 32GB of internal storage, a 5 megapixel LED flash camera and a 1.3 Megapixel forward-facing camera, the Nexus S will be available in two flavors of 4G: actual 4G (LTE), and "4G" (HSPA+). The difference in radios means the HSPA+ Galaxy Nexus is slightly thinner and lighter of the two models, with an 8.94mm profile and weight of 135 grams.

Other wireless features include Bluetooth 3.0, 802.11 a/b/g/n with N in both 2.4GHz and 5GHz ranges, and Near-field communications (NFC). Additionally, the Android 4.0 wireless stack supports Wi-Fi Direct, the Wi-Fi technology that lets two client devices connect to one another without the need of a wireless router between them.

It's essentially everything that was predicted earlier today by blogs based on a conflation of various leaks.

The price of the Galaxy Nexus has not yet been listed, nor has the precise launch date, but both Google and Samsung have said that it will be available in the U.S., Europe, and Asia beginning in November, and later to other global regions.
30 Awesome new features in Android 4 'Ice Cream Sandwich'

Publié: octobre 19, 2011, 5:25am CEST par Tim Conneally

In Hong Kong today, Google and Samsung unveiled Google's new flagship Android device, the Nexus Prime, a 4.65" Super AMOLED-toting, 1.2GHz LTE and HSPA+ smartphone. However nice the hardware of the new device is, it is second to the fact that it is the first device to run Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS), the newest build of Android that unifies tablets and smartphones under a single OS for the first time.

"People like Android, they need Android…but they didn't LOVE Android," said Google's Matias Duarte in today's presentation. To remedy this, Google has not only introduced new and practical functions to ICS, but gave it a slicker look, faster responsiveness, and some extremely impressive bells and whistles.

Here are 30 of the most interesting new features:

1. "Roboto," Android's own font

2. Even more live wallpapers

3. Newly-designed lock screen

4. Disappearing homescreen command buttons

5. Tabbed apps/widgets drawer similar to Honeycomb

6. Resizeable homescreen widgets

7. Redesigned foldering capabilities

8. Hardware accelerated 2D drawing

9. Wi-Fi Direct support

10. "Favorites Tray" at the bottom of the screen that travels across the different homescreens

11. Native Screen grab capability (Press Power+Volume Down)

12. Improved notification bar, customizable notifications

13. New Music player notification in tray controls player

14. Improved keyboard

15. Improved typing error correction

16. In-line spell check and suggestion mode

17. Cut/Copy/Paste similar to Honeycomb, but with animated dragging and dropping

18. Speech for text entry has been improved with no delay

19. "Face Unlock" facial recognition for unlock screen (Did not work in demo)

20. New Browser (Includes new tab management feature. "request desktop site" feature, syncs to chrome, save pages for offline reading)

21. New Gmail (New action bar with compose, search, labels, refresh; offline search by default that searches the last 30 days of email)

22. New Calendar with pinch-to-zoom

23. Updated all of the native Google apps: YouTube, Maps, Google+, Google Music

24. Mobile data usage metrics in system controls, allows users to self-limit their mobile data consumption, and track data usage down to individual app level

25. All-new camera app with slider zoom, facial detection, "zero shutter lag" speed, launchable from home screen

26. Photo editing tools in "edit" menu in the camera

27. Native panoramic camera shot, similar to Sony's "Sweep" panorama

28. 1080p video capture, continuous focus, includes the ability to zoom while recording

29. Incredible new Time Lapse photography feature

30. New tile-based "People app" interface for contacts, very similar to Windows Phone

31. "Android Beam" NFC-based content sharing with multiple ICS phones (Web Addresses, contacts, maps, YouTube videos, app sharing)

Developers can get their hands on ICS right now to begin taking advantage of these new features, or to customize their existent apps and widgets to use the new UI components, styles, and of course the new font.

Consumers, however, will have to wait until November to get their hands on ICS, when the Nexus Prime launches worldwide.
Google secures search, but why?

Publié: octobre 19, 2011, 2:16am CEST par Ed Oswald

Google is expanding its use of the SSL encryption protocol, saying Tuesday it will begin redirecting all searchers to its secure search when signed in with their Google Accounts over the next few weeks.

"We’ve worked hard over the past few years to increase our services’ use of an encryption protocol called SSL, as well as encouraging the industry to adopt stronger security standards," product manager Evelyn Kao says. "As search becomes an increasingly customized experience, we recognize the growing importance of protecting the personalized search results we deliver."

The Mountain View, Calif. search company began using SSL by default in January 2010 in GMail. It introduced encrypted search five months later, but users had to surf to [https:] to use it. Tuesday's change means that this is now the default for Google Account holders.

Those without a Google Account can surf to [https:] (the same encrypted search as the previous URL) to search securely. By default, searches from google.com itself are still unencrypted.

Google's increased emphasis on encrypted search affects webmasters the most. Unencrypted searches allowed webmasters to track Google referral traffic by the individual query. With SSL search, that will no longer be possible -- non-Google owned analytics software will only show that the traffic came from Google itself.

Obviously this is a boon for Google's own analytics products, including its Webmaster Tools offering. There the webmaster can view the top 1,000 queries that drove traffic to his or her site. Advertisers on Google's search pages will also still receive query information to aid in gauging advertising effectiveness, according to the company.

"We hope that today’s move to increase the privacy and security of your web searches is only the next step in a broader industry effort to employ SSL encryption more widely and effectively," Kao says.

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