Gadgetory

hey guys this is Tom with the verge and we're looking at up into running on a Nexus 10 tablet now you'll see we're on the lock screen here and you can flick through all the available users and the notifications on the right-hand side will change depending on that and the backgrounds are also changed and everything's password protected but there is actually a guest mode that you can enable for friends to get in a quick swipe to the left will bring you to the actual home screen for AB into here and you see apps listed at the top you can swipe to the right to get more and there's a video section and there's also sections for people and for music as well most of the navigation on the OS is horizontal but it's also some scrolling required - as you'd expect to bring twos bundled in apps there's a people app that provides all your contacts there's a video app that where you can access to TV and movies and there's other apps that make this really a consumption device and that's almost similar to Amazon's Kindle the Geary app provides access to pictures and photos but it breaks from the norm by displaying them in a range of sizes as the default view it has all the navigation features you'd expect but there's also an album option complete with fake binders so it's clear that the makers ever been to a fans of skeuomorphism the album section will also generate a Flipboard style view of your photos it's not as smooth as it could be but it's still early days this have been - operating system really comes to life when you start to look at the gestures available so quick swipe down from the top of the screen will reveal a quick settings menu that provides access to the date and time network status battery levels and even the ability to change the screen brightness it also acts as a hub for your notifications allowing you to reply in lines Facebook messages also implead to swipe and dismiss them I've been through this implementation feels very similar to Android but it does it in its own style that allows you to touch and hold to navigate through the various sections similar gestures are also available to swipe back to the home screen the star of the show here is really a pin to sideview visually it's almost identical to Windows 8 snap view and it allows you to run apps side by side the aim is to have phone apps running in the side view but a vinter also plans to allow developers to create apps that will switch between full and side view in future to take advantage of the different screen sizes available it's a helpful you can imagine scenarios where you're in a webpage and you want to copy a chunk of text and perhaps paste it into a note and side view allows you to do this and a lot more and you can also obviously launch other applications such as a Twitter app you could be in your Photos app or even the browser and you get to monitor your tweets on the right-hand side speaking of browsers bintu includes a WebKit one that acts as you'd expect I got to test it alongside an on-screen keyboard which is a fairly standard affair for a tablet operating system I got to test it with the verge homepage and it's the first time that I noticed the operating system experienced any lag section images seemed to render well but navigation particularly zooming wasn't that great on the flip side I got to check out another gesture that lets you swipe up from the bottom to access a task manager to switch between apps or close them the widget also provides access to the application zones in this case letting you bookmark pages etc it also provides access to search options and the ability to use speech to find inaudible commands in the Photos app peek search for color balance and it will display the relevant up commands in the sidebar instead of app settings you can in edit an image quickly changing the various options available once its feature is activated it also picks up other commands like crop so you can activate that particular mode too this is all contextual so you'll get different options in various apps overall up into 4 tablets feels like a mix of android windows a enkindle as is using similar features for more free a developer build will be released this week but the final OS and hardware won't be available until q1 2014