Features of latest Android 4 Ice Cream Sandwich Version

The latest Android version, Ice Cream Sandwich, has recently been launched and offers best features of its last two versions, Android 3 honeycomb and Android 2.3 Gingerbread. Google has expressed high expectations from Android 4 and hopes to use it as the trump card in it mobile marketing strategies & business. With this new operating system Google is trying to woo more and more customers from other smart-phones to android based smart-phones. The new platform has also created quite a stir in the mobile application development company and various service providers have started honing their skill on this new platform.

Google brings a lot of new features along with its new operating system. The new system is designed to make mobiles more fun, entertaining and easy to operate. Some of the new features coming along with Android 4 are:

Instant Screen-shots: Earlier versions of android required clients to install apps for taking screen-shots. This feature is now coming in-built with the Android 4 version. Screen-shots can be easily taken by holding the power button and pressing the volume down button at the same time.

A Button for Multitasking: The Ice Cream Sandwich version provides a virtual button that is allows the user to view all the recently used apps and switch to the desired app. The apps are now displayed as thumbnail images which lets the user differentiate the running application from non running applications.

Text Input And Voice Input: The new keyboard is more responsive and quick than its previous versions. The in-line spell checker is a significant improvement for text input method. The dictionary has also been updated and enhanced to provide only top 3 most relevant suggestions to the client. Android 4 offers the feature to input messages through voice. Just speak and the OS will convert your words into text.

Face Unlock: Another great feature included in Ice Cream Sandwich version of Android is face lock and unlock feature. No more passwords, pins, patterns or other stuff that must be remembered. Your face is your identity now as Android 4 will now recognize your face to lock and unlock the phone.

Data Usage Monitoring: The Android 4 OS comes with an in-built ability to monitor the data usage of the phone. Phones users always worry about their data usage. Data prices are very high once your exceed the data usage limit. The new OS monitor the amount of data used displays it in a nice graphical format to the user. Users can add further warning signals for exceeding data usage limits. Further, data usage for each application can also be set in advance for controlled mobile data usage.

Android Beam: The Near Field Communication (NFC) feature is in-built in the system. The application called Android beam allows a user to share files with other people by bringing the two phones together and tapping them against each other.

The Android 4 version is sure to get a huge response from users but the reliability and effectiveness of its features will finally decide the future of Ice Cream Sandwich version. Mobile application development and web development service providers are also trying to make most out of this new OS and have already started offering mobile application development services for it.

Amy Patrix is a fine blogger at Xicom Technologies, is a prominent Web Development and mobile application development offering world class IT Outsourcing Services and Mobile application development services for all the major mobile application platforms.

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