Android 4.1 Jellybean Review & First Look: Verizon Galaxy Nexus
Android 4.1 Jellybean Review & First Look: Verizon Galaxy Nexus
2012-06-28
all right what's going on Android lovers
this is clayton over at Android a 30
calm today i'm very pleased to bring you
a rom review of the team vicious 4.1
jelly bean build for the Samsung Galaxy
Nexus verizon version now i have the
verizon galaxy nexus right here i
flashed the rom and i haven't done
anything but i'm going to boot up right
now so we have a first look at the boot
up animation and the entire setup of
android jelly bean as you can see we
have our awesome new jelly bean nexus
looking boot up animation here really
like in that now also this rom is rooted
as well because we flashed our super SU
ok now anyways this is our very first
initial setup as you can see we have our
new our battery and data icons up there
there we go it says do you have a google
account if you use gmail answer yes i'm
going to go ahead and log in you guys
here we go the setup is complete we're
going to walk through our very first
look of the android jelly bean OS we
have our first initial prompts here make
yourself at home you can put your
favorite apps here ok we have our
wallpaper we've got our power widget
here i've got our new google search bar
and we tap and hold it is not movable to
move our clock widget better folder here
with all of our google apps organize
your apps with folders very cool our
camera go into our app tray here comes
preloaded with currents we've got google
earth on there as well that local our
google plus there's whether you see we
are rooted in fact we have our super SU
i'm going to go ahead and update my
boundaries right now so very cool stuff
so we can refresh right here got our
three navigation bar options here we've
got our recent apps our home and our
batch i got the new layout of the
widgets they've all got this little a
black or gray border around them go
ahead and add a gmail widget for the
heck of it
grab it and we can move to the other
screens I'll place it here we'll just
choose the inbox test out a new voice
feature here hey man how's it going meet
me today at five at the burger king
there we go cool and tap the pause go
back to our keyboard with a click of a
button their car emoticons all our
different punctuation there if we tap
and hold all our different emotion cons
go back and if you noticed when the
keyboard is up we can just simply press
the navigation bar to go down go back
got our brand new notification here and
swipe to remove the notifications remove
the updates available check out the
settings from here at our Wi-Fi
Bluetooth data usage as usual got NFC go
ahead and go to our data usage
everything is just fine go to our
battery and look up the battery manager
here location services we got our
accounts bar which is really nice that's
never been there all of our system
options we got a developer options here
desktop backup password that's pretty
cool we have the stay awake screen while
charging USB debugging show touches show
GPU view updates show surface updates
fourth GPU read fourth GPU rendering
show CPU usage profile GPU rendering a
lot of cool new options go to our about
phone we got android version for dot one
let's see if we have an easter egg we
have an easter egg folks very cool got
all of the lands right jelly beans going
around we can move them around very very
fun easter egg but use this as my
screensaver just wipe all these uh
little jelly beans away very fun go back
also of our build number is JR and 84 d
got a kernel here from july jun 19
excuse me
is we'll go back check out some more
stuff here we've got a roaming indicator
off have a nice clock here up in our
notification bar and drag it got our
screen dimming a little bit when we pull
it down we'll have our new jelly bean
wallpapers if we tap and hold you can
choose a wallpaper from the gallery live
wallpaper or wallpapers and all of our
different jelly bean wallpapers here a
lot of them looked awesome loving the
look of the new jelly bean wallpapers
this one especially we'll try it the new
layout of YouTube for the Android jelly
bean here we've got our brand new logo
discovered add more channels to file
here ok anyways we'll just go back very
cool this is almost like the Google Play
layout the mobile google play app
anyways we have our channel here channel
feed from YouTube you have recommended
trending live autos comedy all of our
cool stuff in our settings as well go
back and we'll check out our Google+
here we go check out our android
authority here cool layout go back to
our stream or profile notifications very
cool what else we got let's go to our
market just play store
cool layout here got little icons we got
a little Andy and then some headphones a
film strip a book check out our apps
everything's a little more streamlined I
like this a lot top paid featured
categories very cool just going to go
ahead and download an app and get root
check I'm going to agree verify root
access grant we are in fact rooted very
very awesome if you saw there we have
our menu coming up in the navbar here
here's our menu option very cool we've
got our glow we can actually hold the
home button and then drag around with in
this little like hemisphere here click
Google when you do that you get to bring
up the discovered google now information
when you need it without searching for
you leave work for example 55 minutes of
work have you traffic on 101 very cool
got our flight get google now yes i'm in
awesome very cool stuff location service
is off of course cards show up when you
need them over time okay cool this is a
very awesome feature anyways now that
we've had a few apps open we'll just
check out our recent apps here you can
still swipe away like usual okay guys
another cool feature is the offline maps
you can actually search the maps here
when you're not online it's got it
stored I'm not going to use the location
I'm just going to go ahead and skip go
down cuz I'm starred locations there
import it from my account some stuff and
see ya tol alright guys well once again
huge thanks to team vicious for porting
this over to the verizon galaxy nexus
this is awesome i'm going to have a
blast with the jelly bean on my nexus
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