What's new in Android 4.3 - our impression

A week has passed since that moment, as Google introduced the world to the next major update to Android, has received a number of 4.3, and to keep the name Jelly Bean system. Delivery updated OSes occurs gradually: some happy owners guglofonov and gugloplanshetov received an update almost immediately, someone he had just arrived, and the less fortunate will have to wait more than one week.

Meanwhile Android 4.3 update turned out pretty heavy and weighs as much as 139.3 megabytes. In spite of such a size update did not bring in any large-scale visual changes, but nevertheless brought it to a new level. However, first things first.

Customizable profiles on tablets

Now the owners of Nexus tablets have access to a very handy feature - user profiles with limited rights. Apparently, Google has seen enough of feil apple platform with its periodic events in the style of "child purchased through in-app purchase for a couple of thousand dollars "and I decided to comprehensively solve the problem: a user account can be very finely tuned to the level of each individual application and access to different parts of system. Choosing specific applications (such as games) and disable them in the internal purchase. Voila!

Why do such a thing (and working with accounts in general), as well as landscape orientation of the main screen is not on smartphones? Google says something about the lack of understanding of how it should work on smartphones, but we you know that the reason with a probability of 99% in a matter of patents, otherwise would have long ago realized without reflection.

A new level of graphics in games

Updates included the OpenGL ES 3.0 support, which means that an early arrival on the platform of unreal beauty and elaboration of visual part of the three-dimensional toys, whose implementation on mobile devices previously seemed impossible.

Smart dialer with autocompletion

A very interesting feature appeared in the standard dialer. Now, if a person dials the number, and dialed the combination of the part number is in your contacts, those contacts will be displayed. Is included in this piece dialer settings.

Alerts thick applications

It so happens that the curve app eats wild number of smartphone resources, and as a bonus, and still does not want to be unloaded from memory even in the sleep mode. Now, Android smart he calculates those with disabilities and through the field of notification proposes to make them Force Stop. Previously, to capture such improprieties had to put a special application from Google Play.

Using Wi-Fi to locate without the inclusion and connection to Wi-Fi

Now Android is able to use a Wi-Fi module smartphone to more accurately determine geopositioning. You do not need to connect to wireless networks, and not even necessarily include a communications module itself, sufficient to establish a tick in the advanced options Wi-Fi.

Economy Bluetooth

Android 4.3 supports promising technology Bluetooth Smart, also known as Bluetooth Low Energy. This piece is used in a variety of accessories, such as the flagship Nike FuelBand and other sports gadgets, requiring constant communication with the device, allowing you to minimize the battery power consumption of the smartphone in a hard mode.

For the future - UltraHD support

Someone thinks that the small 5-inch FullHD screen c its 1920x1080 pixels - this is somehow a lot. No, this is not enough. Google thinks about the future, and therefore already included in the Android support for the UltraHD resolution, also known as 4K (4096 × 2160). At the same time there was also a new category of DPI - XXXHDPI (Extra Extra Extra High Definition). Retina? This is the day before yesterday.

The speed of

You know that feeling when your friend Veteran Samsung Galaxy Nexus is getting older, and Android, contrary to the laws of the market and technology, working on it all the more bright and full of fun? We, the owners guglofonov, know. This happens with every update Android. Google pay much attention to the optimization of the system, and it really felt. Optimization is not just the speed of the work - and increases battery usage time without recharging devices. It certainly pleases.

In addition, the system is slightly brushed. Here and there a noticeable tiny but smart visual improvements: on the lock screen is not duplicated display in the notification time. Barely finished his camera. Its interface is now even easier and clearer.

Switches in the menus have become more accurate and so on.

And yet Google is increasingly moving their services to the masses. Applications Drive, Keep, Chrome and Hangouts now become systemic, that is present in the default Android and not be deleted.

Total

Google is definitely moving in the right direction. We see active on all fronts: the platform is becoming more attractive for developers like serious and fun applications for manufacturers of accessories and, of course, for us mere users. Google fellows.

By the way, we have a way of speeding up the arrival of the update (in point №2 this article is only for guglofonov), so if the wait is no patience, it can be a little cunning.