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hey what's up guys mkbhd here and today was the first day of Google's i/o 2012 conference which is basically the haven for all new things Google today one of the conference's usually where they introduce the best of the best the newest of the new it's basically like a mini WWDC in one day for for Google it's really awesome conference so without any further ado let's take a look at the best of what happened today on day one Google started right off with Android 4.1 yes Android 4.1 is jelly bean now and it's officially official as if it wasn't rumored enough already Android 4.1 has a ton of new improvements and it's coming with a an interesting punch that it's packing but we'll get to that in a second so basically they started off by saying they want to make the entire operating system a more smooth and more fluid experience with project butter which makes sense because smooth is butter yeah ok they show some comparisons with ice-cream sandwich next to jelly bean which would be 4.0 next to 4.1 and they mentioned that they have the entire frame rate of the entire operating system at 60 frames per second so hopefully that's I mean that sounds really really good to me hopefully they can actually make that realistic with the devices that come out in the future but that sounds really good the entire device is supposed to be smooth and from the animations and things that they saw during the demo it looks like it's actually the case Android as we already know also has some of the best notifications of any operating system out there period mobile or desktop and today they took notifications again to a new level you can actually now take action on your notifications from the notification tray so you can pull them down and be able to answer texts and call people back and snooze appointments all from the notification tray without ever opening any applications and there's also a brand new and this is the biggest thing I think is a brand new redesign of the Search app and Ice Cream Sandwich to now move up to jellybean this brings a new user interface called the cards UI and basically these are different cards that will give you different answers to questions and things and these cards will get smarter and be able to recommend things and just get better adapted to you as it moves on and it takes information from your google search history and all that kind of stuff Google Voice Search is essentially a Syria it's not conversational really yet but it's definitely definitely a Siri competitor finally for Android just built in natively Google you can ask a questions using voice search and it is lightning-fast ridiculously fast gets the answers back to you almost as if there's no wait time at all they answer some questions like you know translating things and asking what's the highest you know point in a certain place or the height of a tower or the distance to a place or the best restaurant all these things that you've been able to ask Siri on the iPhone you are now able to interact with this cards UI in the new Google search in Android 4.1 they also have this part of it that's called Google now and basically all this system is designed to just figure you out you know uses your location and looks at your calendar and says oh you're about 20 minutes away from this next calendar appointment you should leave in five minutes stuff like that it's really into it if you arrive at the airport and you have a flight in your calendar it'll keep you up to date on how long you have before you have to arrive at the gate it'll tell you if that flight is delayed or not if you're using a mass transit route it'll tell you when the next bus arrives when you're standing at a bus stop it'll figure out your favorite sports teams based on what you've already Google searched and will keep you up to date on the games that they're playing it'll have a card just for the sports team so overall Android 4.1 is a very solid upgrade for only 0.1 upgrade over 4.0 it's a very solid upgrade and rolling out in mid-july to the Galaxy Nexus the Nexus S and the Motorola Xoom and another device that were about to talk about they got to the good stuff right afterwards which was basically the Nexus 7 this has been a rumor that everyone's been talking about recently it's the 7-inch Nexus tablet that Google is finally announcing and releasing very soon so we've never had a true Nexus tablet I mean the Motorola Xoom is running stock Android but it's not a Nexus device so now this is a 7-inch tablet with a Tegra 3 quad-core processor a 1280 by 800 display and Android 4.1 jelly bean they argue that the seven inch form factor is very very lightweight and very thin and it's kind of like the size of an actual paperback book which makes sense should have nine hours of battery and 300 hours of standby time which I'll have to see to believe it's a Wi-Fi only model it comes in black I didn't see a white version in the Play Store but there is a black version I'll have all the links down in the description you can buy this right now for $199 watchout Kindle Fire it because this is drained directly at you oh and this is also the first device to ship with Chrome as a stock browser solid so I noticed as they were going through the Android 4.1 demo everything had a very nice polished look to it I know Ice Cream Sandwich is the first operating system from Android that really looks like it has the most polished to it but 4.1 has these new animations you know the new notifications like I mentioned and everything as they were demoing it just seemed really really responsive and really fast so I think I was a combination of project butter and the optimization for higher core chips maybe quad-core chips and dual-core chips now have full optimizations so I'm proud of what I've seen there at Google i/o for the Android front and there's been a whole bunch of other different minor updates recently they also announced some interesting things like the Nexus Q which is sort of a multimedia system that you can connect other devices to you connect it to your TV to your speaker and you can have other devices connecting to it it runs 300 bucks it seems very very tough buy it's gonna be a tough sell but that's also in the Play Store at the link in the description and there are also some really neat Google+ updates as there is an events feature now where you can have all sorts of people connected to an event and you turn on this thing called party mode when you're in an event and you'll be able to automatically upload the pictures you take during the event all the way up to the Google+ events page which is pretty cool there's also a new Google Plus tablet application which has a brand new UI and a whole bunch of different features which look really cool and then suddenly they're demonstrating this ridiculously awesome Google glass demonstration where they have these guys up in this blimp and they suddenly skydive in wingsuits down to the roof of the building then they hand off this package to these guys who BMX bike to the edge of the roof then these guys rappel down the side of the building and hop into the third floor and bike down the center of the aisle to get up onto the stage that is by far the most badass thing I have ever seen at any keynote from any company ever and all that was just to introduce Google glass which is a pretty interesting project to say the least it's been coming along well and are actually going to be offering those to Google i/o attendees which will be shipping early next year and you can buy them for $1,500 if you went to the conference overall it was quite the conference I was excited to watch it live and if you want to see it I'll hopefully be able to get a full link to watch the entire thing at the Lincoln description the most exciting thing for me was the Nexus 7 tablet I'm guessing it was you can give a thumbs up if you agree for the same thing for you to if not go ahead and leave a comment say what else you find attractive about what Google announced today I think it's a combination of the Nexus 7 and Android 4.1 either way thanks for watching this video hopefully you enjoyed my Galaxy s3 review which I recently uploaded and a whole bunch of other videos that I put out recently you can feel free to check those out and I will talk to you guys in the next video thanks for watching guys hey you