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hey guys it's Brandon min and then front pocket now calm you know is going to happen just one day after its announcement jelly bean has been leaked it's been leaked on the Galaxy Nexus whether you're running a CDMA Galaxy Nexus or a gs-7 Galaxy Nexus you can actually load it on right now and test it and we've got it running on this verizon Galaxy Nexus and we're going to show you all about jelly bean in this video so let's get to it okay let's get started this is a preview but it's remarkably stable for being a preview everything works literally everything works so let's go into the lockscreen here we're going to unlock the screen the first thing you're going to notice is that the lockscreen is a little bit different we saw this in the emulator you kind of get these pretty little dots as you move your finger around and now there's a third entry at the top here to go to Google now but we're gonna talk about that later there's another way to get to that so we're gonna go to the right to unlock and here is jelly bean so there's a lot of cool stuff to show you the first thing we're gonna show you is the voice search because I think it's a lot better than Siri a lot better than s voice because it's so much faster watch this how tall is Barack Obama whoa that was so fast and if it's a piece of information that it can put into a card it does so for example what's the weather going to be tomorrow check it out pretty cool so let's try something else how much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood now I said that pretty fast let's see if it got it right got it right if it doesn't have an answer for you it will go into just a standard Google web search so let's do one more when is the next leap year I'd be impressed if it got this yeah it's sort of date it brought up a Google search result so it technically really didn't get it so the voice search they're not really calling this any kind of voice assistant or they're not calling it G for which or anything like that it's just the Google Voice Search and now it works very well to answer information and and the best part about it is that it works so fast Siri has to think s voice gets it wrong like 90% of the time but this seems to be the best of all worlds and we're going to have a follow-up video talking about this compared to the other voice search services next thing I want to show you is Google now and the way you get to that is you you tap the home button and you drag up to Google or as you saw in the lock screen you can actually access it through that as well so here we are so these are just some sample cards I've got my calendar Steven in noon the idea behind Google now is that it will intelligently give you information based on whatever you're doing and what your calendar status is and I really haven't had a chance to play with this again we're gonna cover this in a future video because it has a lot of potential one of the things that the Google guys were talking about on stage was let's say you're in a restaurant and you go to Google now it will know you're in that restaurant and it will give you entree recommendations that's just really cool in my opinion and up here there's a standard Google search bar and what you could do down here it says show more cards let's see what else we get it didn't really pull in anything it doesn't have much to work with because I haven't used it that much apparently gets smarter as you use it so let's go back now probably the biggest feature in my opinion to jelly bean is butter so Google try to make the operating system just feel snappier and there's a lot of technical stuff behind this that you know I'm not really that concerned about I want to know if it just feels faster the first thing I'm gonna go into here is the multitask UI now an Ice Cream Sandwich whether you're on the fastest device or a medium-range device our low-end device this this animation always takes way too long in my opinion let's see how it looks in jelly bean ok the animation is pretty much gone and as a basis of comparison we've got the galaxy s3 here running CyanogenMod 9 so it's kind of stock Ice Cream Sandwich potentially a little bit better so let's do a speed test err try to do them at the same time as you saw there is kind of a stuttery animation further watch what happens when we flip the items off the screen much faster on the Galaxy Nexus I mean it's about a second or half a second faster on the Galaxy Nexus which really makes a difference other places that project butter come into play here is in the app drawer so if you go into the app drawer really to show on camera you kind of just got to feel it this is insanely fast like it just snaps into place kind of as if it's anticipating my next move another place where you feel butters presence this is kind of a weird way to talk about it is in the web browser oh do you feel it in the web browser so we're loading a pocket now here I'm gonna zoom out and scrolling as long as the pages load of course is just I there I say buttery smooth I mean it's just it flies and again this is really hard to explain it's it's kind of incredible what Google has done dare I say it feels a lot like iOS where inputs are prioritized over sort of background processes and other things like that just browsing the web is in another league now on jelly bean and and and it's very exciting that they did that another thing we want to show off is the camera taking a features home from Windows Phone 7 actually so we take a picture of my wonderful hand it'll fly off to the right and you can flick off to the right and see that picture then you can do a little film strip type view here again this is right out of Windows Phone 7 and you can see the pictures that you've taken in sort of a zoomed out view so that's kind of a cool little feature to have another thing to note here is the home screen the launcher has been changed to do some cool things one of the things you can do is more easily at widgets so let's go over to widgets let's drop say mmm let's see what's Google Play Books sure take it and drop it here and it will resize and move things around on the screen so no longer you have to do this shuffling of icons around the screen so if I want to move this over to the left everything gets out of the way if I want to move it to the bottom right everything gets out of the way or at least it should kind of see there we go things get out of the way just like nature intended and another thing that's new with the homescreen launcher so you tap and hold on the background get a slightly different wallpaper UI it's just a kind of little thing there next let's talk about notifications because they've been changed and developers now can tap into notifications and do really cool stuff with it so if we bring down the vacation tray here's a great example I've got a missed call from Mason and what I can do right right from the notification tray is call them back or send them a text message which is super cool another thing you can do is actually expand notifications so I've got an email here and to expand it the gesture is really really weird you gotta use like a et style two fingers spread thing it's just really really weird but apparently go get used to it and it's especially useful when you've got a bunch of emails because then you can see little previews of all the different emails that you have just giving more utility to the notification shade another thing that's a little bit frustrating actually about the notification shade is that an Android Ice Cream Sandwich the notification shade goes all the way to the bottom right and so very easily with a flick of your thumb you could put it back in jellybean you'll notice that it actually doesn't go all the way to the bottom it stops before the on screen buttons so a lot of the time I'm accidentally you know flicking on this and hitting a button which will actually close the notification shade but I kind of like just being able to go from the bottom of the screen and all the way up another thing we want to talk about here and I know we're going fast but there's a lot to cover so we go into settings things look a little bit different as we talked about in the emulator video the toggle switches are a little bit updated if you want to if you're curious we can go into the Ice Cream Sandwich UI here things are just a little bit different they don't have that little slant who knows why they why they change that another thing that's different is that if you go down to accounts no longer is there sort of a subsection for accounts and settings it's just accounts are listed and sort of broken out right here within the within the settings screen so for better or for worse I kind of liked it the way it was before but it's definitely something I'll get used to go to about phone Android 4.1 let's get that Easter egg hey check that out jelly bean cute little guy if we tap him will he dance will he sing will he do something magical I don't think so another small change that I've found if you go in the Google Play Store and you search for something let's say words with friends as you start typing if there's an action match you can see a little icon that will bring you directly to the app and below it you'll have the standard searches so again if we do say new North America Netflix right Netflix you'll see a little icon you'll be taken directly to the Netflix app page instead of going to the Netflix search results page and that just makes a lot of sense and the Google Play Store and Ice Cream Sandwich always had this weird stutter this weird animation problem can I'm happy to report that in jellybean it's just rocket fast the animation is smooth it's fluid it just looks it just looks awesome so that was a look at Android jelly bean again if you've got a Galaxy Nexus you can install this quite easily we'll put links up in the description so you can do it the headline here for me at least is project butter because Android Ice Cream Sandwich and really all previous versions have a lag problem whether you're running on quad core or single core and in jelly bean things are absolutely positively faster and more snappier and in the web browser it's just it is day and night it truly is incredible how fast they've made input in the web browser which is one of the most important places so we like what we see with jelly bean can't wait until it's available for more devices and if you liked this video please give us a thumbs up and as always thank you for watching that's it for now