Android 4.0 Ice cream sandwich – All features

Its all official now. Google’s next mobile operating system called Ice cream sandwich, which is based on Android 2.x phone interface with the Android 3.x Honeycomb tablet interface. Interestingly the Ice cream sandwich has been designed to use on both the mobiles and tablets.

Android 4.0 features

Android 4.0 built with utmost care of what people like the most, says google according to the post in Android Developers Blog.

Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich Customization Home Screens

It has easy and faster multitasking, enriched notifications, fully customization of home screens, resizable widgets, and more interactivity — and also boosts the communicating and sharing with new ways.

Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich – Better Data logging and warning, Screenshots

Few improvements over the previous android versions are better copy and paste, data logging and warnings and, and take screenshots by holding down the power and the volume buttons.

Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich – Improved Spell Checker and Suggestion interface

According to the Google, the keyboard and dictionaries have also been modified. The improvements in the dictionaries include the error correction and word suggestions. Pointedly the word suggestion strip is more simplified to suggest three words at a time.  Errors are highlighted using the red underlines and with just a matter of one tap, users can replace the error words with the suggested word, delete a word and adding it to the dictionary.

Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich – Like IOS, Home screen folders.

Get the experience of  iOS, Android 4.0 is now has home screen folders. It allows you to group apps or shortcuts. Now you can just dragging icons on top of one another. You can also drag an app to get more information or uninstall it.

Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich- Favorites tray

As like your desktop operating systems, you can have a tray at the bottom with cutomized icons or applications. You can drag anything you like apps, folders, shortcuts.

Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich- Data Usage interface

An highly enriched graphical display showing the data usage of your mobile. You can set the mobile data usage limit. It also displays a progress bar denoting how much amount of data used by each application.

You can set the limit for each application on how much amount of data it is allowed to consume in the background. Pie charts display the foreground and background data usage of the applications.

Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich- Here comes, the camera

Google working along with Samsung to enrich the camera experience in android. Latest news from the Samsung Nexus has 1080p video, zero shutter lag, a new picture-stitching panorama mode, provides easier sharing and Instagram-esque filters.

Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich- Picasa, Email, Bluetooth, Google +, Messaging

As like any other mobile operating system, android comes with built-in tools like picasa, email, Google plus, bluetooth, messaging.

Its google’s android, so more to come. Wait and watch the techglimpse.com.