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Ubuntu on the Galaxy Nexus: Hands On

2013-01-08
everybody's michael fisher with pocket now calm here at the ubuntu booth at CES 2013 in Vegas checking out you're going to mobile OS is evil oh yeah has just given a really really long demo of this and we don't want to put them through that whole thing again I'm anyway we've seen that before we want to ask maybe for your top three or four you know elements of this UI that you really appreciate right I think well when we say it's all four hours great as I may then we actually talk about the four core elements of the old new design which are the four edges so basically the whole experience is designed around all the four edges of the screen of the experience you don't see any hard key buttons no soft key buttons using basically interacts with the phone are you using the edges of the screen so for example when I would use left I eventually go immediately to my favorite apps like we've see that many people don't use all the rats all-time favorite apps right you can select your favorite exactly i said later so I will BB lock screen so the will be pin lock as opposed to sleep protect private data right exactly so for someone I want to add a note or go to the browser very quickly I can just go there super fast yeah that's basically my walk upstream I can show a variety of information weeds messages missed calls as I clear decide which you chose you and the user can decide that right right so it's a personal visualization of it can be the one that you like the most right and it is missing this artwork kind of changes with the user / time exactly exactly so it's like a very personal feeling to your phone right doesn't that's never gonna change right so for example today I received for tweets yesterday 12 and it builds up all over the past month i'm lisa how many tweets i have received yeah it's like a yeah it's like a data visualization of my personal data querida yeah so when i unlock again I can go here too don't scream I just messed up stream so i can go after different um screen videos am i running apps my process of noms feeding people and music right organized like my recently yeah they you could customize well I can I think I said exactly so for example when I wouldn't launch it for app now what's really cool about the BOSU as we both have native and web apps as equal citizens right so Facebook is a web app now and the gallery is native apps like you know open them the the cannery up and I can show you also the free other key points on the experience right so for example when I start strolling all the content goes away right so this completely optimized for the contents when I open a picture still full screen experience what I want to do something with the picture is the bottom edge list the bottom edge basically and again pretend want to edit the picture i want to share HD picture I can hide it again as well so well his grip and I to go so this is what the buttermilk sauce I can't go back back into the gallery we also found was that when users are using apps sometimes they want to change settings right so you and chase sound you want to change the volume or for triple Wi-Fi whatever I basically run that goes back to the home screen course in settings have that time very deeply we had a much faster way of changing settings it is one of top estas I used top edge for your messages sounds network for example data time battery I want this battery chases brightest bring it back up back in my hat and it's always available regardless always available I ever ever am personally very much pause my message for example over here is aggregated few of my messages I would basically want to reply to miss Cole or pads a message I do I'll do that bring it back up yeah basically some math is asked these notifications and everything right so for example facebook messages as a moment our integrated here as well so even though its web app is completely integrating over the web exactly exact right here interesting angles between two applications their previous completion right so that's what the right edge stars right so we also saw the people are sourcing really often between the last year's apps so for example over here you see the gallery app and now I want to force everyone lots of camera I don't you get my rice I can take a picture oh and then what I want to do fishy there when I want to go back to the gonna react I just used to write ash right there you go so as you pay me back the wrong and now it's really it's all my so for example Facebook that thing anyway well basically exactly exactly so well I mean if you want to go back to another I've really fast you can always just let that right just go here camera if you want to but otherwise if you keep coming back to the right it'll just carousel around exactly exactly so the fort's offerings of the Buddha phone I'll 4h especially right that's it right so other one we have SDK all available and we hope to release like on two phones I made a mission fail about later this year but anybody know it will run on any hardware that has six packs there you go thanks a lot
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