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Samsung's Galaxy Nexus, which will go on sale next month, will be the most advanced smart phone from the Korean giant. It will also be the first phone to run Google's latest operating system, Android 4.0, also known as Ice Cream Sandwich, following alphabetically from the earlier Gingerbread & Honeycomb.
The hardware includes a 1.2 gigahertz dual core processor, a 4.65 inch HD Super AMOLED display at 1280 by 720 resolution, a five megapixel camera, HD 1080 pixel video, with one gigabyte of RAM & 16 gigabytes or 32 gigabytes internal memory. Depending on the region, it will support LTE or HSPA+, two 4G mobile communications standards. It has Bluetooth 3.0, USB 2.0, Wi Fi, as well as near field communication for payments & data sharing.
As for Android 4.0, rather a lot has been done to enhance the operating system. Google's Android director of user skill, Matias Duarte, showed off some of the new features. He began with the design of the new typeface, called Roboto. This is a sans serif font that was specially designed for small screens & to make it easier for the user to read text.
One of the most talked about features of Apple's iPhone 4S is the voice operated personal assistant, Siri. At the Hong Kong event, Duarte demonstrated text to type by talking into the Galaxy Nexus to send a text message: Hey, man. I'd love to talk right now, but I'm a little bit busy. I'll catch up with you later period, smiley face, with which the sentence ended with just that: a period & then a smiley face. The crowd of journalists gave him an ovation for that.
His attempt to show that Face Unlock, which is supposed to unlock the phone when it recognizes the user's face, did not fare quite so well. His partner tried to unlock the phone but failed, which is what was expected. When Duarte then put his face up to the camera, it still did not recognize him. He put that down to the bright makeup he needed for the event.
In defining what Android is about, Andy Rubin, Google's senior vice president of mobile, said: We want to do better than what people are referring to as smart phones today. So we take all the innovation that's available at Google everything we offer in cloud services and make it available on your cell phone 24 hours a day.
Analyst firm Gartner recently said that Android was number one in the second quarter of 2011, with 46,775,900 units sold (43.6 percent of the market). Symbian was second with 23,853,200 units sold (22.1 percent) & IOS was third with 19,628,800 units sold (18.2 percent).
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