In the beginning stages of development, Android was considered to be a rookie gearing up to fail; however, it has since then proven a leader in the smartphone market. The company has various different versions of its Android operating system and has named each system after a delicious dessert. Android 2. The company launched the Android 1. The first one was Cupcake, with each one following after it alphabetically. The latest version the Android 4. Gingerbread and Ice Cream Sandwich are two different operating systems and the ICS was the first real update for smartphone after the launch of Gingerbread These two are different in terms of features, looks, layout and many other things.
Gingerbread was designed specifically for smartphones, while the company introduced another complete version, codenamed Honeycomb for the tablets. The update was based on Linux kernel 2.
It is considered to still be one of the most popular versions of Android for smartphones. The company also shipped a minor updates for Gingerbread under the version 2. These updates offered new features such as: support for voice or video chat, Open Accessory Library support, improvements to Gmail application, shadow animations for list scrolling, camera software enhancements and improved battery efficiency.
Android 4. Even when you've got a cavernous 32GB microSD card, you can't dump entire apps on it, regardless of the size of the microSD card present; a small portion of the data has to remain in the phone's app storage partition, and on some phones, that can be as little as a few hundred megabytes.
ICS solves this issue. With the Samsung Galaxy Nexus , the phone's 16GB storage is treated as a single partition, which means its shared between your media and app data. You can therefore fill your phone with as many apps as that limit will allow, without having to worry about any of that app-to-SD nonsense.
Note this scenario may be different for ICS handsets that have a microSD card slot though, so don't get too excited. It has also led to problems with USB audio playback in cars. Here's a fact that may shock you: stock Android 2. The OS itself is incapable of recording anything over a p resolution. Google is bringing stock Android bang up to date with ICS, which not only features crisp p-resolution video, but eye-popping p as well.
With the Android Menu button now a dim and distant memory, thanks to ICS, Google has had to get creative to make up for its absence. This is where the Action Bar comes in. In applications where options were concealed behind a Menu button press, you'll see a context-sensitive strip of commands appearing at the bottom of the display. This not only saves you having to prod a button to see all of your choices, but it also makes the OS more user-friendly -- something that previous versions of Android 2.
Compared to having to input a pass-code or trace a lock pattern, this feature offers massive time savings by simply identifying your face and unlocking the phone.
Okay, so it's not entirely foolproof and it often struggles to recognise you when you awake in a particularly dishevelled state in the morning, but face unlock remains a talking point.
All you have to do is hold the phone in front of your face and the security lock is disabled -- what could be simpler? Deploying widgets in Android 2. ICS adopts the Android 3. It sounds like a minor improvement but it saves valuable time -- and it looks great too. Widgets are located in your app drawer, rather than being accessed via a long-press on the screen, which makes them easier to access.
When the iPhone was granted the ability to sort apps into folders a while back, Apple fanboys were astounded, yet Android users have been enjoying the art of tidying up their icons for years. In ICS, folders are even slicker than before. Instead of a boring old folder icon, you can now actually see the stack of apps that are contained within each one. Anonymous 6. Yup buddy you can update its firmware My suggestion go to the xda developer site Was this comment helpful?
Anonymous "You can upgrade the software by samsung operating their account and You can upgrade the software by Samsung operating their account and synchronize your phone with it. This is checked, because I upgraded my phone so the Android 2. So, you will have to wait until someone ports BBM messenger to 2. Nope, sorry. No plans in putting one in your samsung galaxy duos gt-s Add Your Answer Is there a way to upgrade the samsung galaxy ace gt-si from android 2. Can you help us by answering one of these related questions?
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