1 00:00:00,280 --> 00:00:02,920 Speaker 1: Brought to you by the reinvented two thousand twelve Camray. 2 00:00:03,160 --> 00:00:08,840 Speaker 1: It's ready. Are you get in touch with technology with 3 00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:17,560 Speaker 1: tech Stuff from how stuff works dot com. Hello everyone, 4 00:00:17,600 --> 00:00:20,200 Speaker 1: welcome to tech stuff. My name is Chris Poulett, and 5 00:00:20,239 --> 00:00:22,560 Speaker 1: I'm an editor at how stuff works dot com. Sitting 6 00:00:22,600 --> 00:00:25,959 Speaker 1: across me as always his senior writer, Jonathan Strickland, I 7 00:00:26,160 --> 00:00:29,520 Speaker 1: just got parole. I'm just twenty five years old. I'm 8 00:00:29,520 --> 00:00:35,240 Speaker 1: your ice cream man, so you better look out for me. Uh. 9 00:00:35,360 --> 00:00:37,640 Speaker 1: That didn't sound like a scooter crunch to me. No, 10 00:00:38,400 --> 00:00:42,159 Speaker 1: we're gonna talk today about ice cream sandwiches, but not 11 00:00:42,240 --> 00:00:45,440 Speaker 1: the tasty, chilly treat that can give you an ice 12 00:00:45,479 --> 00:00:48,320 Speaker 1: cream headache. Oh no, this can give you a headache 13 00:00:48,360 --> 00:00:52,160 Speaker 1: of a totally different nature. That's just that's just guess 14 00:00:52,159 --> 00:00:55,200 Speaker 1: work by me. I was actually used it yet. Um. 15 00:00:55,240 --> 00:00:57,600 Speaker 1: Now we're talking about the latest build as of the 16 00:00:57,640 --> 00:01:00,800 Speaker 1: recording of this podcast, the latest build of Andrewid's mobile 17 00:01:01,280 --> 00:01:04,640 Speaker 1: or Androids operating system. It is a mobile operating system. Uh, 18 00:01:04,680 --> 00:01:08,440 Speaker 1: it would officially be Android four point Oh yes, ice 19 00:01:08,480 --> 00:01:11,480 Speaker 1: cream sandwich. Yeah. If you are not familiar with the 20 00:01:11,520 --> 00:01:14,160 Speaker 1: Android operating system, this is, of course the smartphone and 21 00:01:14,200 --> 00:01:18,600 Speaker 1: tablet operating system that Google produces. Uh and ever since 22 00:01:18,840 --> 00:01:21,440 Speaker 1: they got out of alpha and beta, they've named their 23 00:01:21,520 --> 00:01:31,800 Speaker 1: various builds after tasty desserts. So we had cupcake, doughnut, Claire, froyo, gingerbread, 24 00:01:32,200 --> 00:01:39,080 Speaker 1: and honeycomb up to now honey Yeah, fantastic. So the 25 00:01:39,200 --> 00:01:41,720 Speaker 1: nice neat thing about ice cream sandwich to me or 26 00:01:41,800 --> 00:01:44,559 Speaker 1: what I think? It's kind of interesting is that? Okay? 27 00:01:44,600 --> 00:01:48,320 Speaker 1: You you remember when Honeycomb debuted, right, and there was 28 00:01:48,440 --> 00:01:52,280 Speaker 1: some excitement, but there was also some grousing because Google 29 00:01:52,360 --> 00:01:55,320 Speaker 1: already has a bit of a black eye about all 30 00:01:55,360 --> 00:01:59,480 Speaker 1: the different versions of Android that are out on the market, right, yeah, there, Well, 31 00:01:59,520 --> 00:02:02,360 Speaker 1: it depends on what phone that you have, too, because 32 00:02:02,400 --> 00:02:05,400 Speaker 1: some of them, uh is is it easy to find 33 00:02:05,400 --> 00:02:07,880 Speaker 1: a good deal on an Android phone? But you'll find 34 00:02:07,880 --> 00:02:10,560 Speaker 1: out in a lot of cases that you are one 35 00:02:10,760 --> 00:02:15,919 Speaker 1: or more versions of the operating system behind the cutting edge. Um, 36 00:02:15,919 --> 00:02:18,519 Speaker 1: and a lot of people were finding uh, you know, hey, 37 00:02:18,520 --> 00:02:21,280 Speaker 1: I got Android and it turns out that it's not 38 00:02:21,400 --> 00:02:25,320 Speaker 1: as the phone isn't as robust and can't handle as 39 00:02:25,320 --> 00:02:28,440 Speaker 1: advanced in operating system. So people are out there with 40 00:02:28,560 --> 00:02:31,640 Speaker 1: a variety of different kinds of phones UH running a 41 00:02:31,720 --> 00:02:35,480 Speaker 1: variety of different operating versions of the Android operating system. 42 00:02:35,800 --> 00:02:38,080 Speaker 1: So like this, this is one of the things that 43 00:02:38,120 --> 00:02:42,760 Speaker 1: really differentiates Android from iOS and Apple's approach because Apple 44 00:02:43,040 --> 00:02:47,400 Speaker 1: is in charge of of UH creating the hardware and 45 00:02:47,440 --> 00:02:50,840 Speaker 1: the software. So it's a marriage between hardware and software 46 00:02:50,840 --> 00:02:53,360 Speaker 1: where the hardware is going to support the software because 47 00:02:53,520 --> 00:02:56,040 Speaker 1: it was designed to do so from the ground up, 48 00:02:56,120 --> 00:02:58,240 Speaker 1: and vice versa. The software is designed to work on 49 00:02:58,280 --> 00:03:01,800 Speaker 1: that hard to to optimize for that hardware. So Apple 50 00:03:02,160 --> 00:03:04,120 Speaker 1: in a way, you know their system. It means that 51 00:03:04,160 --> 00:03:06,640 Speaker 1: you don't have as much choice. Really, you have the 52 00:03:06,760 --> 00:03:09,519 Speaker 1: latest iPhone that you can purchase, or you can purchase 53 00:03:09,560 --> 00:03:13,560 Speaker 1: an iPhone that's usually a generation or maybe two generations older. 54 00:03:14,160 --> 00:03:16,640 Speaker 1: But but they're all iPhones. You know, it's all gonna 55 00:03:16,720 --> 00:03:20,160 Speaker 1: have the form factor that is common across that generation 56 00:03:20,200 --> 00:03:22,720 Speaker 1: of hardware. You know you're not gonna find any variation 57 00:03:22,760 --> 00:03:26,400 Speaker 1: beyond that. But but it does mean that and you 58 00:03:26,440 --> 00:03:30,120 Speaker 1: know you're less likely to be outpaced by the operating 59 00:03:30,160 --> 00:03:34,520 Speaker 1: system at least significantly. I mean, older versions of the 60 00:03:34,520 --> 00:03:37,960 Speaker 1: iPhone are not able to run the current version of iOS. 61 00:03:38,440 --> 00:03:43,160 Speaker 1: But because contracts come up and usually two years in 62 00:03:43,320 --> 00:03:46,920 Speaker 1: the United States, the think thinking processes. Well, you're not 63 00:03:46,960 --> 00:03:49,920 Speaker 1: gonna be you know, left behind for very long because 64 00:03:49,920 --> 00:03:51,800 Speaker 1: once your contracts up, then you can upgrade to the 65 00:03:51,880 --> 00:03:54,320 Speaker 1: latest hand set and you'll be able to use the 66 00:03:54,400 --> 00:03:58,880 Speaker 1: latest operating system. Google it's different because Google does not 67 00:03:59,200 --> 00:04:04,120 Speaker 1: create right now, it's own hardware. It even though there 68 00:04:04,200 --> 00:04:08,040 Speaker 1: is the the possibility that Google will purchase Motorola Mobility 69 00:04:08,080 --> 00:04:10,280 Speaker 1: and so maybe in the future we will see that happen. 70 00:04:10,400 --> 00:04:12,520 Speaker 1: Right now, that's not the way it works. The way 71 00:04:12,520 --> 00:04:17,560 Speaker 1: it works is that various handset manufacturers across multiple countries 72 00:04:17,600 --> 00:04:22,680 Speaker 1: and carriers are creating devices that run Android. So some 73 00:04:22,800 --> 00:04:25,679 Speaker 1: of those devices can run Android up to a certain point, 74 00:04:25,680 --> 00:04:28,680 Speaker 1: but beyond that they aren't capable of running Android because 75 00:04:28,760 --> 00:04:32,120 Speaker 1: the operating systems resource demands are greater than what the 76 00:04:32,200 --> 00:04:35,920 Speaker 1: hardware can provide. So, for example, some of the earliest 77 00:04:35,960 --> 00:04:39,240 Speaker 1: Android phones that came out had an upper limit of 78 00:04:39,520 --> 00:04:42,440 Speaker 1: Android one point six. They couldn't go beyond that. Now 79 00:04:42,480 --> 00:04:45,960 Speaker 1: we're talking about Android four in this podcast, so you 80 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:49,160 Speaker 1: can see that you would be left far behind. So 81 00:04:50,240 --> 00:04:54,000 Speaker 1: because multiple manufacturers are making these handsets, they're coming out 82 00:04:54,040 --> 00:04:56,719 Speaker 1: all the time. You know, an iPhone a new iPhone 83 00:04:56,720 --> 00:05:01,760 Speaker 1: comes out in general between twelve and eighteen months as scene. Uh, 84 00:05:01,800 --> 00:05:04,880 Speaker 1: a new Android phone comes out every couple of weeks, right, 85 00:05:04,920 --> 00:05:07,920 Speaker 1: it seems like so well, especially right now as at 86 00:05:07,960 --> 00:05:10,839 Speaker 1: the time we're recording this podcast, we've had some very 87 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:15,800 Speaker 1: high profile device is released in the last two weeks. Yeah. Yeah, 88 00:05:16,240 --> 00:05:18,840 Speaker 1: So in that case, you could go out purchase your 89 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:23,080 Speaker 1: brand new Google phone with it's with the highest running 90 00:05:23,080 --> 00:05:25,240 Speaker 1: operating system that you can get at on that phone 91 00:05:25,240 --> 00:05:27,400 Speaker 1: at that time, and then two weeks later you can 92 00:05:27,440 --> 00:05:29,920 Speaker 1: find out that there's a new phone that's just been 93 00:05:29,960 --> 00:05:33,280 Speaker 1: released that even makes the one you just purchased. Look. Uh, 94 00:05:33,400 --> 00:05:36,480 Speaker 1: you know, well it may not look pathetic. That would 95 00:05:36,480 --> 00:05:39,279 Speaker 1: be going too far, but it may Yeah, it may 96 00:05:39,279 --> 00:05:41,599 Speaker 1: not have as it may not be as fully featured 97 00:05:42,160 --> 00:05:45,480 Speaker 1: as the newest phone. So that can be very frustrating. Well, 98 00:05:45,880 --> 00:05:48,320 Speaker 1: Google's have a lot of criticism directed to it because 99 00:05:49,120 --> 00:05:51,880 Speaker 1: directed at it, I guess I should say that because 100 00:05:51,920 --> 00:05:55,160 Speaker 1: it had, you know it, it had created this this 101 00:05:55,240 --> 00:05:57,719 Speaker 1: operating system where there were so many different versions out 102 00:05:57,720 --> 00:05:59,920 Speaker 1: there on the market. Not all of this is Google's fault. 103 00:06:00,040 --> 00:06:04,479 Speaker 1: It that it created something that we call fragmentation, where 104 00:06:04,520 --> 00:06:07,200 Speaker 1: you know, you could have three or four people all 105 00:06:07,279 --> 00:06:09,719 Speaker 1: with Google devices, getting a room together and realize that 106 00:06:09,880 --> 00:06:12,120 Speaker 1: no two of them are running the same version of 107 00:06:12,160 --> 00:06:14,880 Speaker 1: the operating system. And then you get on top of that, 108 00:06:14,920 --> 00:06:17,680 Speaker 1: you've got things like you've got the ability of carriers 109 00:06:17,720 --> 00:06:21,839 Speaker 1: to overlay their own um you user interface on top 110 00:06:21,920 --> 00:06:25,560 Speaker 1: of the Android operating system, and it makes the fragmentation 111 00:06:25,560 --> 00:06:29,320 Speaker 1: even greater. Well, then when Google released Honeycomb, which was 112 00:06:29,400 --> 00:06:33,560 Speaker 1: a tablet operating system, it was designed optimized for tablets, 113 00:06:33,600 --> 00:06:37,279 Speaker 1: not for smartphones, they got even more criticism because now 114 00:06:37,320 --> 00:06:41,680 Speaker 1: you have a smartphone operating system and a tablet operating system, 115 00:06:41,839 --> 00:06:45,039 Speaker 1: both of which Android. Yeah, so now the fragmentation is 116 00:06:45,080 --> 00:06:49,240 Speaker 1: even worse. Well, ice Cream Sandwich moves to help resolve that, 117 00:06:49,800 --> 00:06:53,080 Speaker 1: and that ice Cream Sandwich is bringing together the operating 118 00:06:53,080 --> 00:06:56,479 Speaker 1: system of the tablet and the smartphone. They ideally the 119 00:06:56,480 --> 00:07:00,640 Speaker 1: ice Cream Sandwich operating system build of Android will equally 120 00:07:00,720 --> 00:07:04,600 Speaker 1: well on tablets and smartphones and we will start to 121 00:07:04,600 --> 00:07:09,279 Speaker 1: to have a resolution of this fragmentation. And just in 122 00:07:09,320 --> 00:07:12,520 Speaker 1: case you guys are curious, yeah, there are Android tablets 123 00:07:12,560 --> 00:07:15,160 Speaker 1: that are on the market that actually run older versions 124 00:07:15,160 --> 00:07:18,440 Speaker 1: of the Android operating system, versions older than than Honeycomb. 125 00:07:19,040 --> 00:07:22,320 Speaker 1: So there are some versions out there where uh, they're 126 00:07:22,360 --> 00:07:25,360 Speaker 1: running the smartphone operating system on a tablet and people 127 00:07:25,560 --> 00:07:27,600 Speaker 1: were complaining about it. They said, you know, this really 128 00:07:28,040 --> 00:07:30,280 Speaker 1: doesn't feel like a tablet operating system, and that was 129 00:07:30,440 --> 00:07:33,440 Speaker 1: that's why Honeycomb was, you know, Google's answer to that. So, well, 130 00:07:33,440 --> 00:07:36,200 Speaker 1: this is the optimized one. And now ice Cream Sandwich 131 00:07:36,200 --> 00:07:39,800 Speaker 1: is taking everything they've learned from designing smartphone operating systems 132 00:07:39,800 --> 00:07:42,680 Speaker 1: and tablet operating systems and combining it into a single package. 133 00:07:43,320 --> 00:07:45,760 Speaker 1: So in that way, it's similar to Apple's approach with 134 00:07:45,800 --> 00:07:51,640 Speaker 1: iOS UM and in another comparison to iOS and I 135 00:07:52,040 --> 00:07:55,520 Speaker 1: know that I've well, I've read criticism lately about how 136 00:07:56,080 --> 00:07:59,480 Speaker 1: uh Android stands alone and shouldn't necessarily be compared to iOS. 137 00:07:59,560 --> 00:08:02,520 Speaker 1: But it's it's inevitable that it would draw these comparisons 138 00:08:02,520 --> 00:08:06,800 Speaker 1: because they are the two leading operating systems for smartphones 139 00:08:06,840 --> 00:08:11,080 Speaker 1: and tablets at the moment um. Uh. They they have 140 00:08:11,160 --> 00:08:14,640 Speaker 1: said to that UM ice Cream Sandwich is designed to 141 00:08:14,680 --> 00:08:19,000 Speaker 1: be more user friendly, uh and easier for people who 142 00:08:19,040 --> 00:08:22,600 Speaker 1: are not familiar with smartphone and tablet operating systems to 143 00:08:22,840 --> 00:08:26,360 Speaker 1: get in. UM. You know, one of the the strong 144 00:08:26,440 --> 00:08:29,320 Speaker 1: points of Android is that it is more open and 145 00:08:29,360 --> 00:08:32,840 Speaker 1: it has a lot of advanced features that UM the 146 00:08:32,880 --> 00:08:37,800 Speaker 1: iOS UH doesn't have or didn't have up until iOS five. UM. 147 00:08:37,840 --> 00:08:41,800 Speaker 1: But at the same time, UH, some people have criticized 148 00:08:41,800 --> 00:08:44,680 Speaker 1: it for being so complex that newbies can't jump in 149 00:08:44,720 --> 00:08:47,640 Speaker 1: and use it. UH ice cream sandwich is supposed to 150 00:08:47,920 --> 00:08:50,840 Speaker 1: uh to help with that. UM. One of the features 151 00:08:50,880 --> 00:08:55,400 Speaker 1: I I think that people will really like, especially new people, 152 00:08:55,440 --> 00:08:58,760 Speaker 1: as the face recognition for the unlocking of the phone. Yeah, 153 00:08:58,760 --> 00:09:01,160 Speaker 1: that's kind of cool. The idea here is that, yeah, 154 00:09:01,240 --> 00:09:03,719 Speaker 1: you face unlock, you hold your phone up to your 155 00:09:03,760 --> 00:09:05,920 Speaker 1: face and they're, you know, assuming that your phone has 156 00:09:05,920 --> 00:09:10,600 Speaker 1: a front facing camera, which the the Google Nexus, which 157 00:09:10,640 --> 00:09:13,480 Speaker 1: is the what they're talking there. That was the phone 158 00:09:13,520 --> 00:09:16,559 Speaker 1: they featured, uh ice cream sandwich. When when Google was 159 00:09:16,600 --> 00:09:18,400 Speaker 1: actually talking about ice cream sandwich, that was the phone 160 00:09:18,400 --> 00:09:20,920 Speaker 1: they were using. Was Uh, it's a Samsung phone, as 161 00:09:20,960 --> 00:09:24,320 Speaker 1: I recall, and UM, so they would it has a 162 00:09:24,360 --> 00:09:26,120 Speaker 1: front facing camera. You hold it up to your face 163 00:09:26,120 --> 00:09:29,319 Speaker 1: and assuming that you're in a well lit area where 164 00:09:29,320 --> 00:09:31,960 Speaker 1: the camera can actually detect the contours of your face, 165 00:09:32,360 --> 00:09:35,559 Speaker 1: it will unlock your phone. Once the facial recognition software 166 00:09:35,720 --> 00:09:39,520 Speaker 1: verifies that it's you. Now. This does raise some questions, Yeah, 167 00:09:39,920 --> 00:09:44,040 Speaker 1: like could you fool the facial recognition software by holding 168 00:09:44,080 --> 00:09:47,440 Speaker 1: up a picture of someone? And like the person who 169 00:09:47,480 --> 00:09:49,520 Speaker 1: owns that phone, if you hold up a picture of 170 00:09:49,559 --> 00:09:52,000 Speaker 1: that person to the camera on the phone, would the 171 00:09:52,040 --> 00:09:55,320 Speaker 1: picture be enough to fool the facial recognition software, because 172 00:09:55,360 --> 00:09:57,880 Speaker 1: we have seen that happen in other devices that have 173 00:09:57,920 --> 00:10:02,280 Speaker 1: facial recognition software. I rememb ended specifically of some vending 174 00:10:02,280 --> 00:10:07,320 Speaker 1: machines in Japan that sold cigarettes, and the cigarettes, you know, 175 00:10:07,880 --> 00:10:10,640 Speaker 1: there's an age limit you have to be a certain 176 00:10:10,679 --> 00:10:14,480 Speaker 1: age in order to purchase cigarettes legally and so, but 177 00:10:14,640 --> 00:10:17,240 Speaker 1: they found and they, in order to get around that, 178 00:10:17,320 --> 00:10:19,160 Speaker 1: you know, have so that kids would not just walk 179 00:10:19,240 --> 00:10:22,439 Speaker 1: up to the cigarette machine and buy cigarettes, they included 180 00:10:22,480 --> 00:10:26,199 Speaker 1: a camera that would use some facial recognition software not 181 00:10:26,320 --> 00:10:30,000 Speaker 1: to identify someone, but to determine if that person was 182 00:10:30,080 --> 00:10:33,600 Speaker 1: old enough, just looking for specific kind of features and saying, 183 00:10:33,640 --> 00:10:36,200 Speaker 1: all right, well, this is someone who is clearly has 184 00:10:36,280 --> 00:10:39,839 Speaker 1: some years under their belt, so they can smoke if 185 00:10:39,880 --> 00:10:45,480 Speaker 1: they want to. Don't don't smoke kids anyway. Uh. They 186 00:10:45,640 --> 00:10:47,640 Speaker 1: it was discovered that if you just took a picture 187 00:10:47,640 --> 00:10:50,240 Speaker 1: of an old person held the picture up to the camera. 188 00:10:50,520 --> 00:10:52,720 Speaker 1: It would fool the camera and you could purchase as 189 00:10:52,720 --> 00:10:57,240 Speaker 1: many you know, smokes as you wanted. Kids don't smoke, don't, 190 00:10:57,679 --> 00:11:01,280 Speaker 1: don't do it anyway, So the question is, could the 191 00:11:01,280 --> 00:11:05,319 Speaker 1: facial recognition software on this this Google device be fooled 192 00:11:05,360 --> 00:11:08,840 Speaker 1: by a picture? Also, what what if? What if you? 193 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:11,959 Speaker 1: What if you have an identical twin? Could the identical 194 00:11:11,960 --> 00:11:14,199 Speaker 1: twin pick up your phone and then unlock it using 195 00:11:14,320 --> 00:11:17,280 Speaker 1: his or her own face? Also, for those of us 196 00:11:17,320 --> 00:11:20,199 Speaker 1: with zz top like facial hair, what happens if we shave? 197 00:11:20,600 --> 00:11:23,000 Speaker 1: Are we no longer able to access our phone? Does 198 00:11:23,040 --> 00:11:26,160 Speaker 1: it say I don't recognize you, go away for six 199 00:11:26,200 --> 00:11:29,360 Speaker 1: months and come back and try again. Well, he's got 200 00:11:29,440 --> 00:11:33,719 Speaker 1: legs and he knows how to use them. Nice. But 201 00:11:33,720 --> 00:11:36,240 Speaker 1: but even even if that does happen, even if it 202 00:11:36,240 --> 00:11:38,360 Speaker 1: gets to a point where let's say it's too dark, 203 00:11:38,720 --> 00:11:41,400 Speaker 1: just a simple scenario, it's too dark for it to work, 204 00:11:41,640 --> 00:11:43,760 Speaker 1: you can still unlock your phone using one of the 205 00:11:43,760 --> 00:11:47,760 Speaker 1: more traditional ways, like the finger swipe type stuff where 206 00:11:47,760 --> 00:11:49,760 Speaker 1: you have to draw a pattern or whatever. You can 207 00:11:49,800 --> 00:11:52,480 Speaker 1: still do that. So it's not like you're going to 208 00:11:52,559 --> 00:11:55,920 Speaker 1: be bricked out of your phone because you ended up, 209 00:11:56,120 --> 00:12:00,160 Speaker 1: you know, changing your face around. I remember my need 210 00:12:00,240 --> 00:12:03,280 Speaker 1: of that Muppet machine that would you were to pull 211 00:12:03,320 --> 00:12:05,040 Speaker 1: you pull the nose off and put on another one. 212 00:12:05,080 --> 00:12:06,760 Speaker 1: You know, you can actually do that. At the Center 213 00:12:06,760 --> 00:12:10,199 Speaker 1: for Puppetry Arts, they have a puppet thing where you 214 00:12:10,200 --> 00:12:15,040 Speaker 1: can change out eyes and noses and mouths. It's awesome. So, 215 00:12:15,200 --> 00:12:18,080 Speaker 1: um yeah, that's a pretty cool feature. The facial recognition. 216 00:12:18,080 --> 00:12:23,680 Speaker 1: I agree. Also, voice recognition technology has become really important 217 00:12:23,720 --> 00:12:28,720 Speaker 1: with Google. Now. It's interesting because this this this leads 218 00:12:28,760 --> 00:12:33,080 Speaker 1: to comparisons with Apple's Siri and Siri. And when I 219 00:12:33,080 --> 00:12:36,520 Speaker 1: say Apple's Sirie, Apple actually purchased the company that created Siri, 220 00:12:36,679 --> 00:12:40,680 Speaker 1: but you know they're incorporating it into iOS um Now. 221 00:12:40,720 --> 00:12:44,000 Speaker 1: Siri is has got a sense of humor and a 222 00:12:44,040 --> 00:12:48,320 Speaker 1: personality sort of. I mean, it's artificial, but it's there. 223 00:12:48,400 --> 00:12:53,160 Speaker 1: It's been programmed in minds, artificial to your your personalities, artificial. 224 00:12:54,840 --> 00:12:56,600 Speaker 1: I felt I thought it was felt a little plastic, 225 00:12:56,960 --> 00:13:01,439 Speaker 1: but uh, they the Google Voice version. There are ways 226 00:13:01,440 --> 00:13:05,360 Speaker 1: where you can operate your phone through using just voice commands, 227 00:13:06,040 --> 00:13:08,640 Speaker 1: just like you could with Siri. But there's not that 228 00:13:08,760 --> 00:13:12,480 Speaker 1: sort of personality that quirky since there and it's not 229 00:13:12,559 --> 00:13:15,679 Speaker 1: as it's not as deeply integrated as it is with 230 00:13:15,800 --> 00:13:19,120 Speaker 1: Apple's product, but you can do a lot of that 231 00:13:19,160 --> 00:13:21,280 Speaker 1: stuff on your Google phone. One of the things I 232 00:13:21,280 --> 00:13:25,000 Speaker 1: thought was kind of cool though, is that with Android 233 00:13:25,320 --> 00:13:32,080 Speaker 1: ice Cream it has real time speech to text UH recognition, 234 00:13:32,120 --> 00:13:34,079 Speaker 1: So if you hold up the phone and you're talking 235 00:13:34,120 --> 00:13:37,600 Speaker 1: into it, you'll see your your words start to appear 236 00:13:37,679 --> 00:13:41,000 Speaker 1: on the screen as you're talking. Now, with older versions 237 00:13:41,040 --> 00:13:43,720 Speaker 1: of Android, what would happen is you would you would 238 00:13:43,760 --> 00:13:46,200 Speaker 1: activate your phone, you turn on the little microphone icon, 239 00:13:46,360 --> 00:13:48,959 Speaker 1: and you would speak into your phone. You would stop speaking, 240 00:13:49,320 --> 00:13:51,360 Speaker 1: you would get a little loading page as it was 241 00:13:51,400 --> 00:13:54,520 Speaker 1: sending the data to the cloud to be analyzed. The 242 00:13:54,520 --> 00:13:56,760 Speaker 1: cloud would send the data back down and then you 243 00:13:56,800 --> 00:13:59,240 Speaker 1: would see the result and it would be whatever you 244 00:13:59,280 --> 00:14:02,840 Speaker 1: said in full. So if you're dictating a fairly long email, 245 00:14:03,559 --> 00:14:05,760 Speaker 1: then you're not going to get a chance to actually 246 00:14:05,880 --> 00:14:10,280 Speaker 1: see what's coming up until you're done. Now, with ice 247 00:14:10,320 --> 00:14:12,959 Speaker 1: Cream Sandwich, what's doing is it's doing real time streaming, 248 00:14:12,960 --> 00:14:15,280 Speaker 1: so it's streaming the data up as it's receiving it, 249 00:14:15,480 --> 00:14:17,920 Speaker 1: hitting the cloud, analyzing it, and sending it back down 250 00:14:17,920 --> 00:14:20,560 Speaker 1: while you're still talking. So you could be dictating a 251 00:14:20,640 --> 00:14:23,040 Speaker 1: very long email and you're gonna start seeing it appear 252 00:14:23,080 --> 00:14:25,320 Speaker 1: after you start talking. Now, that might actually be distracting 253 00:14:25,360 --> 00:14:28,240 Speaker 1: for someone, but it's also a way to say like 254 00:14:28,280 --> 00:14:32,560 Speaker 1: you can review what you're saying immediately. They also highlight 255 00:14:32,600 --> 00:14:37,240 Speaker 1: words or underlining words that uh that have a lot 256 00:14:37,280 --> 00:14:40,800 Speaker 1: of hominems, especially with depending upon the way you speak. 257 00:14:41,800 --> 00:14:46,080 Speaker 1: So if I say a word and uh, and you 258 00:14:46,120 --> 00:14:48,280 Speaker 1: know it's the way I say that word, maybe I 259 00:14:48,320 --> 00:14:51,480 Speaker 1: get a little mush mouth syndrome going or something, but 260 00:14:51,560 --> 00:14:53,240 Speaker 1: I say the word in such a way that sounds 261 00:14:53,280 --> 00:14:57,680 Speaker 1: like another word. If Google is not sure of the 262 00:14:57,720 --> 00:15:01,320 Speaker 1: word you said based upon its contact and your pronunciation, 263 00:15:01,600 --> 00:15:03,520 Speaker 1: you'll get this little underline under it, and if you 264 00:15:03,560 --> 00:15:06,720 Speaker 1: click on the word, it'll give you multiple words to 265 00:15:06,840 --> 00:15:09,880 Speaker 1: choose from that are hominems of whatever it was you said, 266 00:15:10,600 --> 00:15:13,640 Speaker 1: so you can pick the correct word for that particular context. 267 00:15:14,440 --> 00:15:16,760 Speaker 1: So that's kind of cool that, you know, it's not 268 00:15:16,840 --> 00:15:19,320 Speaker 1: just going to put in one word when you said 269 00:15:19,360 --> 00:15:23,920 Speaker 1: something else. Oh, they're they're Jonathan. Yeah there you go. No, No, 270 00:15:24,040 --> 00:15:28,600 Speaker 1: they're Jonathan. There their castle. Uh. So you don't get 271 00:15:28,600 --> 00:15:32,360 Speaker 1: that because you still haven't seen that movie. Um, but Yeah, 272 00:15:32,440 --> 00:15:34,200 Speaker 1: that that that was one of the features I thought 273 00:15:34,240 --> 00:15:36,360 Speaker 1: was really cool. The facial recognition was neat, the voice 274 00:15:36,360 --> 00:15:39,640 Speaker 1: recognitions neat. Uh. There's a lot of other things that 275 00:15:39,680 --> 00:15:42,720 Speaker 1: they've they've included with this update to the operating system. 276 00:15:42,760 --> 00:15:45,800 Speaker 1: The camera now has some added functionality. Yeah, that you 277 00:15:45,800 --> 00:15:48,160 Speaker 1: can you can edit a lot. You have a lot 278 00:15:48,200 --> 00:15:51,520 Speaker 1: more capacity to edit photos, and you can edit stuff 279 00:15:51,560 --> 00:15:53,760 Speaker 1: like the simple things like removing red eye and that 280 00:15:53,800 --> 00:15:55,920 Speaker 1: kind of stuff and cropping photos. But you can also 281 00:15:56,440 --> 00:15:59,920 Speaker 1: do like the hipster layers where you make things look 282 00:16:00,160 --> 00:16:06,520 Speaker 1: posters and stuff and yeah, you're so hip. Apparently Jonathan 283 00:16:06,560 --> 00:16:09,080 Speaker 1: doesn't like that. But you can also do panoramic shots 284 00:16:09,160 --> 00:16:11,800 Speaker 1: where you hold the camera up and you start taking 285 00:16:11,840 --> 00:16:14,440 Speaker 1: a photo and you just you pan to the left 286 00:16:14,520 --> 00:16:16,960 Speaker 1: or to the right, or even I guess across the 287 00:16:16,960 --> 00:16:21,120 Speaker 1: sky if you wanted to, and you you wait until 288 00:16:21,120 --> 00:16:22,880 Speaker 1: you get all the way to where you want to end, 289 00:16:23,280 --> 00:16:26,880 Speaker 1: and then what will happen is that the ice cream 290 00:16:26,880 --> 00:16:29,200 Speaker 1: sandwich has software in it that will allow it to 291 00:16:29,280 --> 00:16:32,880 Speaker 1: stitch together all the various pictures that you've just taken 292 00:16:32,920 --> 00:16:35,160 Speaker 1: by slowly panning. You don't have to do anything the 293 00:16:35,200 --> 00:16:37,880 Speaker 1: camera's doing at all. Uh, and it will stitch it 294 00:16:37,920 --> 00:16:40,920 Speaker 1: together into a panoramic photo. That's pretty cool. Yeah, no, 295 00:16:40,960 --> 00:16:43,520 Speaker 1: it's pretty neat. And also it has the features that 296 00:16:43,560 --> 00:16:45,480 Speaker 1: we've come to expect with a lot of the most 297 00:16:45,520 --> 00:16:50,200 Speaker 1: recent digital cameras and smartphones, like tap to focus. If 298 00:16:50,200 --> 00:16:54,760 Speaker 1: you've gotten multiple, uh, multiple things in a frame, you 299 00:16:54,760 --> 00:16:57,560 Speaker 1: can tap one of them to to tell the camera 300 00:16:57,720 --> 00:16:59,680 Speaker 1: this is what I actually want to take a picture of. 301 00:16:59,720 --> 00:17:02,960 Speaker 1: This Their stuff is kind of background and that's helpful, 302 00:17:03,040 --> 00:17:05,280 Speaker 1: and of course like digital zoom and that kind of stuff. 303 00:17:05,720 --> 00:17:08,600 Speaker 1: Um oh, and apparently the shutter speed is there's like 304 00:17:08,640 --> 00:17:11,760 Speaker 1: no delay or very little lag between when you hit 305 00:17:11,800 --> 00:17:14,960 Speaker 1: the camera and when the photos taken, which is that's 306 00:17:15,000 --> 00:17:17,280 Speaker 1: that's fantastic. Yeah, I have I don't know, have you 307 00:17:17,320 --> 00:17:20,320 Speaker 1: ever used a phone that had a camera where there 308 00:17:20,400 --> 00:17:23,480 Speaker 1: was like a noticeable delay from when you tried to 309 00:17:23,480 --> 00:17:25,600 Speaker 1: take a picture to when the picture was taken. On 310 00:17:25,680 --> 00:17:27,879 Speaker 1: my phone, it takes about a second, and that can 311 00:17:27,960 --> 00:17:30,760 Speaker 1: be that can be enough for it to mess you up, 312 00:17:32,600 --> 00:17:35,440 Speaker 1: but it's enough. It's long enough so that you can 313 00:17:35,600 --> 00:17:38,960 Speaker 1: miss a moment you were trying to capture, or more frequently, 314 00:17:39,000 --> 00:17:41,119 Speaker 1: in my case, i'll take a photo think that the 315 00:17:41,119 --> 00:17:43,040 Speaker 1: photo has been taken, start to move the camera and 316 00:17:43,040 --> 00:17:45,160 Speaker 1: that's when the camera takes And that's so I mean, 317 00:17:45,240 --> 00:17:48,720 Speaker 1: I I'm a victim of my own impatience there. But 318 00:17:49,280 --> 00:17:52,720 Speaker 1: this is uh with ice cream sandwich, they've really optimized 319 00:17:52,760 --> 00:17:55,840 Speaker 1: the camera software so that it'll take that photo much 320 00:17:55,960 --> 00:17:58,359 Speaker 1: more quickly. Now, some of that's also going to depend 321 00:17:58,400 --> 00:18:01,600 Speaker 1: on the hardware. And again we said Android can be 322 00:18:01,720 --> 00:18:04,920 Speaker 1: used across multiple kinds of hardware. So sometimes you'll you'll 323 00:18:04,920 --> 00:18:09,040 Speaker 1: come across an Android handset that might take phenomenal photos, 324 00:18:09,359 --> 00:18:11,119 Speaker 1: and you might come up with another one where the 325 00:18:11,119 --> 00:18:15,200 Speaker 1: photos just look grainy and just there's the low resolution 326 00:18:15,240 --> 00:18:17,920 Speaker 1: where they just don't they just don't look good. And 327 00:18:17,960 --> 00:18:22,200 Speaker 1: some of that is due to the hardware limitations. So 328 00:18:23,240 --> 00:18:26,640 Speaker 1: even though the software supports it, unless the hardware is comparable, 329 00:18:27,040 --> 00:18:31,119 Speaker 1: you could still have a less than ideal experience. Uh 330 00:18:31,280 --> 00:18:34,760 Speaker 1: So some other stuff that they've included an ice cream sandwich, 331 00:18:35,160 --> 00:18:38,280 Speaker 1: there's anything else in particular you want to talk about. 332 00:18:38,400 --> 00:18:40,600 Speaker 1: I was just gonna start hitting some of the other features, 333 00:18:40,600 --> 00:18:42,679 Speaker 1: but if there's one or two that you really like, 334 00:18:42,800 --> 00:18:48,280 Speaker 1: we can focus on those. I see what you did there. Um, 335 00:18:48,320 --> 00:18:50,040 Speaker 1: I think one of the ones that I've seen most 336 00:18:50,080 --> 00:18:53,879 Speaker 1: people interested in is Android Beam. Ah yeah, beam is 337 00:18:53,920 --> 00:18:57,080 Speaker 1: pretty cool. Yeah, Now, I mean immediately when I saw 338 00:18:57,160 --> 00:19:02,560 Speaker 1: that basically, Android Beam gives you the ability to um 339 00:19:02,800 --> 00:19:07,359 Speaker 1: uh give people information from your phone when it's in 340 00:19:07,440 --> 00:19:10,760 Speaker 1: proximity to another one. And the the demo I saw, 341 00:19:10,800 --> 00:19:14,800 Speaker 1: they actually had the two phones touch, yeah, which reminds 342 00:19:14,840 --> 00:19:18,800 Speaker 1: me of Bump. Yeah. It also reminded me of squirting. Yeah, 343 00:19:19,080 --> 00:19:23,919 Speaker 1: the old the old Microsoft Zoom. So so you you 344 00:19:24,000 --> 00:19:27,479 Speaker 1: might say, well that, you know, we've had that for 345 00:19:27,520 --> 00:19:29,600 Speaker 1: a while, you know, that's that's I hear that on 346 00:19:29,720 --> 00:19:32,520 Speaker 1: from both sides when somebody else introduces a feature, Oh, 347 00:19:32,720 --> 00:19:36,680 Speaker 1: you know a sirie. Oh Android, We the Android people 348 00:19:36,680 --> 00:19:42,480 Speaker 1: have had that for years, cut and paste. Yeah, well, 349 00:19:42,520 --> 00:19:44,920 Speaker 1: but an Android Beam. You know, I thought of Bump 350 00:19:44,960 --> 00:19:46,840 Speaker 1: and I thought, well, you know that's not something. In fact, 351 00:19:46,920 --> 00:19:50,560 Speaker 1: Bump is you know, cross platform. Yeah, however, this is 352 00:19:50,640 --> 00:19:53,120 Speaker 1: this is more than just that. Though. You can transfer 353 00:19:53,280 --> 00:19:57,520 Speaker 1: all kinds of files um with Android Beam, and they've 354 00:19:57,520 --> 00:20:00,399 Speaker 1: built it into the API so that developers can create 355 00:20:00,440 --> 00:20:03,439 Speaker 1: applications that take advantage of this. So here here's some 356 00:20:03,560 --> 00:20:06,600 Speaker 1: examples that you could use this this technology. Let's say, 357 00:20:06,600 --> 00:20:10,720 Speaker 1: all right, basic example, I I am listening to a 358 00:20:10,920 --> 00:20:15,639 Speaker 1: song on on a Pandora or something like that, and 359 00:20:15,680 --> 00:20:18,199 Speaker 1: the Pandora's built in the API where I can actually 360 00:20:18,240 --> 00:20:21,320 Speaker 1: share my playlist with someone else or my station with 361 00:20:21,359 --> 00:20:24,720 Speaker 1: someone else. And Chris has the same kind of He 362 00:20:24,760 --> 00:20:26,960 Speaker 1: has a phone that also has this capability. Right now, 363 00:20:27,040 --> 00:20:29,560 Speaker 1: by the way, Google Nexus is the only phone that 364 00:20:29,600 --> 00:20:31,680 Speaker 1: can do this because you have to have near field 365 00:20:31,680 --> 00:20:35,080 Speaker 1: communication yeah built into it, and yeah and yeah. But 366 00:20:35,160 --> 00:20:38,840 Speaker 1: as we see more NFC phones come out from using Android, 367 00:20:38,880 --> 00:20:41,600 Speaker 1: then I'm sure we'll see this used in various handsets, 368 00:20:41,840 --> 00:20:45,200 Speaker 1: and hopefully it will be completely compatible across all handsets, 369 00:20:45,240 --> 00:20:47,840 Speaker 1: so that way I'm not limited to just other people 370 00:20:47,880 --> 00:20:50,280 Speaker 1: who own the same type of phone that I do. Alright, 371 00:20:50,320 --> 00:20:52,560 Speaker 1: so let's say that I've got this song or this 372 00:20:52,600 --> 00:20:54,760 Speaker 1: playlist playing and I want to share it with Chris, 373 00:20:54,760 --> 00:20:56,600 Speaker 1: and I hold it up to his phone, and then 374 00:20:56,640 --> 00:20:59,960 Speaker 1: now his his Pandora has access to the same playlist 375 00:21:00,080 --> 00:21:04,360 Speaker 1: the same station that I have created. That's a simple application. 376 00:21:04,480 --> 00:21:06,040 Speaker 1: Or the one that I saw in the demo was 377 00:21:06,040 --> 00:21:08,040 Speaker 1: that I was, you know, someone's watching a YouTube video, 378 00:21:08,359 --> 00:21:10,080 Speaker 1: they hold their phone up to someone else's phone, and 379 00:21:10,119 --> 00:21:12,760 Speaker 1: now the second phone picks up and and is able 380 00:21:12,800 --> 00:21:15,880 Speaker 1: to watch that YouTube video at the same time. But 381 00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:18,680 Speaker 1: let's let's say let's put it into a game and 382 00:21:18,800 --> 00:21:21,440 Speaker 1: say that you've got a game on your on your 383 00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:24,640 Speaker 1: your phone. That is, let's say it's a role playing game, 384 00:21:25,119 --> 00:21:27,000 Speaker 1: and it's a role playing game where it's essentially a 385 00:21:27,040 --> 00:21:30,280 Speaker 1: massively multiplayer role playing game, but you know, with limited 386 00:21:30,680 --> 00:21:34,080 Speaker 1: interaction with other characters. And then I hold up my 387 00:21:34,119 --> 00:21:37,679 Speaker 1: phone to your phone, and our characters meet and exchange 388 00:21:38,119 --> 00:21:40,960 Speaker 1: stuff so that we each of our characters comes out 389 00:21:41,200 --> 00:21:45,000 Speaker 1: stronger than they were before. And that that's kind of 390 00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:47,240 Speaker 1: a cool little feature that you could you could build 391 00:21:47,240 --> 00:21:51,560 Speaker 1: into a game using this um this this technology. Now 392 00:21:51,600 --> 00:21:54,199 Speaker 1: there's other stuff too. You know, you can transfer notes 393 00:21:54,320 --> 00:21:57,360 Speaker 1: and you can do all sorts of things. It's it's 394 00:21:57,359 --> 00:22:01,240 Speaker 1: a neat way of being able to to manage data 395 00:22:01,320 --> 00:22:04,639 Speaker 1: without having to set up an email or or some 396 00:22:04,720 --> 00:22:08,280 Speaker 1: sort of foul sharing service. Um it makes it really 397 00:22:08,359 --> 00:22:13,200 Speaker 1: quick and simple. And because it's using near field communication, 398 00:22:13,880 --> 00:22:17,000 Speaker 1: it's it's secure in the sense that you don't have 399 00:22:17,040 --> 00:22:19,840 Speaker 1: to worry about you know, you're transferring this across a 400 00:22:19,960 --> 00:22:24,000 Speaker 1: public WiFi hotspot or something. It's you know, unless someone's 401 00:22:24,200 --> 00:22:27,159 Speaker 1: right up on you, some way of being able to 402 00:22:27,200 --> 00:22:30,640 Speaker 1: read your your communication, then you're you're pretty much okay. Yeah, 403 00:22:30,720 --> 00:22:33,960 Speaker 1: somebody's running uh to you trying to touch your phone 404 00:22:33,960 --> 00:22:36,800 Speaker 1: with theirs. That maybe a sign that something is wrong. 405 00:22:36,840 --> 00:22:39,760 Speaker 1: It's an indicator that there you may need to pay 406 00:22:39,800 --> 00:22:43,000 Speaker 1: attention to what's going on around you. I'm on base, 407 00:22:43,040 --> 00:22:46,240 Speaker 1: you can't tag me. Uh so yeah, that that was 408 00:22:46,280 --> 00:22:48,720 Speaker 1: another feature that that I've seen a lot of people 409 00:22:48,720 --> 00:22:54,440 Speaker 1: talking about. Um, let's see, let's see, there's the go ahead. 410 00:22:54,440 --> 00:22:57,000 Speaker 1: I was gonna say. The app management, too, is supposed 411 00:22:57,040 --> 00:22:59,920 Speaker 1: to be improved. Um. One of the concerns that a 412 00:23:00,080 --> 00:23:05,800 Speaker 1: lot of Android users have is that, uh that they 413 00:23:05,840 --> 00:23:09,320 Speaker 1: have little knowledge of all the stuff that's running on 414 00:23:09,320 --> 00:23:11,040 Speaker 1: their phone, and they all of a sudden they have 415 00:23:11,040 --> 00:23:14,919 Speaker 1: no battery because they have sixty three apps running and 416 00:23:15,080 --> 00:23:18,120 Speaker 1: you know, I don't need that thing open. Uh why 417 00:23:18,200 --> 00:23:21,160 Speaker 1: is it still running? I told it to close? Um, 418 00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:23,199 Speaker 1: And I find that kind of frustrating with my Android. 419 00:23:23,560 --> 00:23:25,480 Speaker 1: Have you have you seen some of the screens for 420 00:23:25,560 --> 00:23:29,160 Speaker 1: the data management? No? I actually haven't they really get 421 00:23:29,840 --> 00:23:32,240 Speaker 1: they drill down, because what will happen is let's say 422 00:23:32,240 --> 00:23:34,320 Speaker 1: that let's say that you are just curious to see 423 00:23:34,520 --> 00:23:37,400 Speaker 1: how you um, how you've been using, like how much 424 00:23:37,480 --> 00:23:39,960 Speaker 1: data you've been using. That that's a concern too, because 425 00:23:39,960 --> 00:23:42,199 Speaker 1: a lot of plans have a limit on how much 426 00:23:42,280 --> 00:23:45,919 Speaker 1: data you can use per month, but not every phone 427 00:23:46,160 --> 00:23:48,720 Speaker 1: is uh not every upbrating system makes it easy to 428 00:23:48,880 --> 00:23:52,960 Speaker 1: determine how much data you're using. Well, ice Cream Sandwich 429 00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:54,359 Speaker 1: has it built in where you can go into a 430 00:23:54,440 --> 00:23:57,080 Speaker 1: data management app and take a look and you'll see 431 00:23:57,119 --> 00:24:00,159 Speaker 1: how much data you've used up to that point and end. 432 00:24:00,160 --> 00:24:02,040 Speaker 1: It will even break it down and show you which 433 00:24:02,080 --> 00:24:05,280 Speaker 1: apps are using the most data and when. I would 434 00:24:05,320 --> 00:24:07,560 Speaker 1: really like to have that option right now. And yeah, 435 00:24:07,560 --> 00:24:10,400 Speaker 1: it does it as line graphs, it does as pie charts. 436 00:24:10,680 --> 00:24:13,439 Speaker 1: It gives you really a good idea of where your 437 00:24:13,520 --> 00:24:16,800 Speaker 1: data usage is coming from. And if you want, you 438 00:24:16,880 --> 00:24:19,040 Speaker 1: know a lot of if you have a cap on 439 00:24:19,080 --> 00:24:20,919 Speaker 1: your data limit and you don't want to go over it, 440 00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:25,000 Speaker 1: you can actually set a hard stop on your data 441 00:24:25,119 --> 00:24:29,000 Speaker 1: usage and when your data usage hits that, that's it. 442 00:24:29,119 --> 00:24:32,520 Speaker 1: Your phone won't let you use data unless you override 443 00:24:32,560 --> 00:24:35,159 Speaker 1: the limit you've set, So that way you don't have 444 00:24:35,200 --> 00:24:36,760 Speaker 1: to worry about it. Was getting close to the end 445 00:24:36,800 --> 00:24:38,479 Speaker 1: of the month and suddenly your phone tells you know, 446 00:24:38,760 --> 00:24:40,400 Speaker 1: you don't want to do this because if you do, 447 00:24:40,760 --> 00:24:45,400 Speaker 1: you're gonna be paying a truckload of money like an 448 00:24:45,440 --> 00:24:49,240 Speaker 1: overage fees. So that's kind of cool. Yeah. Things that 449 00:24:49,280 --> 00:24:51,320 Speaker 1: allow you to manage your apps better so that you 450 00:24:51,320 --> 00:24:53,679 Speaker 1: you maximize your battery life and you you don't go 451 00:24:53,720 --> 00:24:57,680 Speaker 1: over your data limit. Those are really thoughtful. Uh features. 452 00:24:57,920 --> 00:25:00,560 Speaker 1: You want to know another small, small feature that that's 453 00:25:00,600 --> 00:25:02,600 Speaker 1: related to that that I really like the idea of 454 00:25:02,680 --> 00:25:05,960 Speaker 1: what's that I understand that with ice cream sandwich. If 455 00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:08,960 Speaker 1: you have a device from a carrier that has bundled 456 00:25:08,960 --> 00:25:11,359 Speaker 1: a whole bunch of stuff on your phone that you 457 00:25:11,440 --> 00:25:15,119 Speaker 1: don't want, that it will allow you to uninstall anything 458 00:25:15,400 --> 00:25:19,080 Speaker 1: from your phone. See right now, unless I root my phone, 459 00:25:20,040 --> 00:25:23,720 Speaker 1: I cannot remove three or four applications that I never 460 00:25:23,840 --> 00:25:27,280 Speaker 1: use that my Uh they're on the provider put on 461 00:25:27,320 --> 00:25:29,000 Speaker 1: there and I can't get off. I have the same 462 00:25:29,040 --> 00:25:30,840 Speaker 1: I've got a few I've got a few apps that 463 00:25:30,840 --> 00:25:33,520 Speaker 1: are on my phone that I never use, I don't 464 00:25:33,800 --> 00:25:37,399 Speaker 1: imagine I will use, but I can't uninstall them unless 465 00:25:37,400 --> 00:25:39,800 Speaker 1: I root my phone, and I don't do I. People 466 00:25:39,960 --> 00:25:42,080 Speaker 1: often ask me why I don't root my phone because 467 00:25:42,119 --> 00:25:45,120 Speaker 1: I'm a tech guy. I don't root my phone because 468 00:25:45,160 --> 00:25:47,879 Speaker 1: I use my phone so frequently for so many things 469 00:25:47,880 --> 00:25:50,320 Speaker 1: that I don't want to run into the situation where 470 00:25:51,160 --> 00:25:55,480 Speaker 1: I have a fatal crash and I have to restart 471 00:25:55,560 --> 00:25:58,720 Speaker 1: from factories, you know, go back to factory settings, and 472 00:25:59,280 --> 00:26:01,359 Speaker 1: I don't want an instance where that happens and it 473 00:26:01,440 --> 00:26:04,639 Speaker 1: throws me off. That's the problem is because I use 474 00:26:04,680 --> 00:26:06,399 Speaker 1: my phone for everything. I mean, I use it for 475 00:26:06,480 --> 00:26:09,000 Speaker 1: work stuff, and I use it for my own personal use. 476 00:26:09,400 --> 00:26:11,960 Speaker 1: It is my personal phone, um, but I use it 477 00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:14,159 Speaker 1: for I use it for everything, so I can't I 478 00:26:14,240 --> 00:26:17,200 Speaker 1: don't want to take the risk of a rooting something 479 00:26:17,240 --> 00:26:21,280 Speaker 1: and then and then having an app mucket up. Yeah, 480 00:26:21,480 --> 00:26:23,800 Speaker 1: I just I needed to work when I needed to 481 00:26:23,840 --> 00:26:29,320 Speaker 1: work and not. Yes, so yeah. Another another thing that's 482 00:26:29,359 --> 00:26:34,159 Speaker 1: interesting hardware buttons. They're gone, you know, instead of there's 483 00:26:35,080 --> 00:26:36,919 Speaker 1: there's a little section at the very bottom of the 484 00:26:36,920 --> 00:26:38,320 Speaker 1: screen when you're looking at by the way that the 485 00:26:38,359 --> 00:26:40,560 Speaker 1: Google Nexus has an enormous screen. It's like four point 486 00:26:40,600 --> 00:26:43,680 Speaker 1: six inches, um for for a smartphone, that's pretty big. 487 00:26:44,359 --> 00:26:46,240 Speaker 1: But at the bottom of the screen you'll have a 488 00:26:46,320 --> 00:26:49,879 Speaker 1: back button uh, and like a file button and the 489 00:26:49,920 --> 00:26:53,480 Speaker 1: home button. Um, there's no more menu button uh down 490 00:26:53,520 --> 00:26:56,920 Speaker 1: there as there were with older Android funds. And these 491 00:26:56,920 --> 00:26:59,280 Speaker 1: are not actual button buttons. They're on the screen and 492 00:26:59,320 --> 00:27:02,879 Speaker 1: when you get to certain views those just fade away 493 00:27:03,800 --> 00:27:07,760 Speaker 1: as well. They are contextual buttons. Uh. So that's a 494 00:27:07,800 --> 00:27:09,880 Speaker 1: little different. That's actually kind of neat because it gives 495 00:27:09,920 --> 00:27:13,800 Speaker 1: you even more screen space and uh that makes apps, 496 00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:19,879 Speaker 1: you know, more more useful. Um. And then there's some 497 00:27:19,960 --> 00:27:24,400 Speaker 1: other basic housekeeping type stuff like folder creation, which is 498 00:27:24,480 --> 00:27:27,200 Speaker 1: something that Apple folks have been using for a while now. 499 00:27:27,720 --> 00:27:30,520 Speaker 1: But the way you create a folder in an Android 500 00:27:30,560 --> 00:27:33,959 Speaker 1: ice cream phone is that you can drag a an 501 00:27:34,160 --> 00:27:37,640 Speaker 1: icon of an app on top of another icon and 502 00:27:37,760 --> 00:27:40,600 Speaker 1: let go, and it will automatically group those two icons 503 00:27:40,640 --> 00:27:42,119 Speaker 1: together in a folder. And then you can name the 504 00:27:42,119 --> 00:27:44,640 Speaker 1: folder whatever you want. So you can put all your 505 00:27:44,680 --> 00:27:47,160 Speaker 1: social apps in one folder and you call it social 506 00:27:47,480 --> 00:27:49,520 Speaker 1: and that way, you you know, you manage that you 507 00:27:49,560 --> 00:27:52,600 Speaker 1: don't have a cluttered screen on your on your smartphone 508 00:27:52,600 --> 00:27:56,520 Speaker 1: when you open it up. Um. So yeah, there's lots 509 00:27:56,560 --> 00:27:58,639 Speaker 1: of other neat little features like that. I'm sure we're 510 00:27:58,640 --> 00:28:01,960 Speaker 1: gonna learn more as we get closer. Oh. One of 511 00:28:01,960 --> 00:28:06,600 Speaker 1: the most important things that I heard was that, um 512 00:28:06,640 --> 00:28:11,359 Speaker 1: that apparently, ah, if your if your phone can run 513 00:28:12,560 --> 00:28:16,360 Speaker 1: uh Android two point three, which is gingerbread, it will 514 00:28:16,400 --> 00:28:19,000 Speaker 1: be able to run ice cream sandwich. That's what I understand. 515 00:28:19,040 --> 00:28:22,440 Speaker 1: And so that ice cream sandwich will be released for 516 00:28:23,119 --> 00:28:27,600 Speaker 1: all the phones that can run gingerbread. Uh. Although the 517 00:28:27,760 --> 00:28:31,520 Speaker 1: schedule of that really state is is largely up to 518 00:28:31,600 --> 00:28:34,800 Speaker 1: the actual carriers, So some of us may be waiting 519 00:28:34,840 --> 00:28:39,280 Speaker 1: around this time next year for gingerbread. Finally, someone's looking 520 00:28:39,320 --> 00:28:42,400 Speaker 1: at directly at me while well, other people have ice 521 00:28:42,440 --> 00:28:45,640 Speaker 1: cream sandwich. Um. Well, hey, to be fair, I have 522 00:28:45,760 --> 00:28:49,440 Speaker 1: not had gingerbread for very long and uh, and ice 523 00:28:49,480 --> 00:28:52,280 Speaker 1: cream sandwich is now going to be the next new thing. 524 00:28:52,320 --> 00:28:55,400 Speaker 1: And hopefully they will really roll this out. It's not 525 00:28:55,480 --> 00:28:58,680 Speaker 1: just the carriers either, it's also the handset manufacturers. There's 526 00:28:58,720 --> 00:29:01,960 Speaker 1: a lot of work that goes into rolling out the 527 00:29:02,040 --> 00:29:05,400 Speaker 1: updates to the operating system. I can only hope that 528 00:29:05,480 --> 00:29:09,320 Speaker 1: they will incorporate this as quickly as they can, because 529 00:29:09,320 --> 00:29:11,600 Speaker 1: I would love to get my hands on some of 530 00:29:11,600 --> 00:29:13,560 Speaker 1: these features. I mean a lot of the stuff. I mean, 531 00:29:13,600 --> 00:29:16,480 Speaker 1: I don't know that my hardware could support everything that 532 00:29:16,960 --> 00:29:20,800 Speaker 1: ice Cream Sandwich promises, but I would at least like 533 00:29:20,840 --> 00:29:24,840 Speaker 1: the chance to try it out. Yeah, I would too. Um, 534 00:29:24,880 --> 00:29:29,960 Speaker 1: of course I need gingerbread first. Um. I thought of 535 00:29:30,040 --> 00:29:32,400 Speaker 1: one other little thing I forgot to mention, which is 536 00:29:32,440 --> 00:29:35,440 Speaker 1: not a huge deal for most people, but it's um 537 00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:40,280 Speaker 1: it's nice. Uh. You can resize widgets now, so you know, 538 00:29:40,320 --> 00:29:42,040 Speaker 1: you get a widget you put on your screen. Yeah, 539 00:29:42,120 --> 00:29:44,880 Speaker 1: if you which is great depending on you know, the 540 00:29:44,920 --> 00:29:46,640 Speaker 1: size of screen you have. You might not have a 541 00:29:46,680 --> 00:29:49,240 Speaker 1: Google Nexus which has that enormous screen, and you might 542 00:29:49,280 --> 00:29:52,040 Speaker 1: want you know, well, I just need enough of this 543 00:29:52,080 --> 00:29:55,000 Speaker 1: widget to show like a Gmail widget. You might want 544 00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:57,320 Speaker 1: it to show just one email message at a time. 545 00:29:57,760 --> 00:30:00,240 Speaker 1: And so you you can actually resize the wind does 546 00:30:00,280 --> 00:30:03,040 Speaker 1: so it does that and you that frees up more 547 00:30:03,520 --> 00:30:07,520 Speaker 1: desktop space or phone top space so that you can, said, 548 00:30:07,600 --> 00:30:10,320 Speaker 1: you can put other apps up there. And you know 549 00:30:10,400 --> 00:30:14,040 Speaker 1: that that that applies across to all the widgets. And 550 00:30:14,080 --> 00:30:15,640 Speaker 1: this was kind of I think that was something that 551 00:30:15,680 --> 00:30:18,200 Speaker 1: they carried over from Honeycomb, that you could do that 552 00:30:18,320 --> 00:30:21,400 Speaker 1: on the Android tablets, but you couldn't do it on 553 00:30:21,440 --> 00:30:25,080 Speaker 1: the smartphones. Until ice Cream Sandwich rolled around interesting or 554 00:30:25,120 --> 00:30:27,600 Speaker 1: plopped around I guess ice cream sandwiches don't really roll. 555 00:30:27,920 --> 00:30:29,880 Speaker 1: Not really depends on the shape. I guess if you 556 00:30:29,880 --> 00:30:33,280 Speaker 1: get a round one, yeah, I've seen some round ones. Yeah, 557 00:30:33,320 --> 00:30:36,280 Speaker 1: but it's it's it's promising though. The operating system I 558 00:30:36,280 --> 00:30:40,600 Speaker 1: think is is really maturing with these with these new features, 559 00:30:40,760 --> 00:30:43,680 Speaker 1: and um, you know, I think this is definitely a 560 00:30:43,720 --> 00:30:46,960 Speaker 1: step forward. And uh, it's probably not as much of 561 00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:50,000 Speaker 1: a shot across the bow to i OS as it 562 00:30:50,120 --> 00:30:56,440 Speaker 1: is too uh Microsoft and BlackBerry. Yeah, as far as 563 00:30:56,520 --> 00:31:00,640 Speaker 1: keeping why even keep shooting BlackBerry? I mean they're sinking 564 00:31:00,680 --> 00:31:03,920 Speaker 1: on their own well enough, shot themselves in the foot, right, Yeah, 565 00:31:03,960 --> 00:31:08,080 Speaker 1: they're plugging more holes in that boat. Then there's more 566 00:31:08,120 --> 00:31:11,360 Speaker 1: holes than boat at this point. Maybe they'll turn it 567 00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:13,680 Speaker 1: around though, like we said in our our Rim podcast, 568 00:31:13,720 --> 00:31:15,720 Speaker 1: it may very well turn out that BlackBerry gets the 569 00:31:15,800 --> 00:31:18,960 Speaker 1: last laugh. But right now, I just don't think that 570 00:31:18,960 --> 00:31:21,120 Speaker 1: that's necessarily so when you go after I guess I 571 00:31:21,160 --> 00:31:23,760 Speaker 1: guess what Google could go after is to try and 572 00:31:23,800 --> 00:31:26,840 Speaker 1: get into the enterprise market plus, where BlackBerry really still 573 00:31:26,920 --> 00:31:30,960 Speaker 1: is firmly entrenched. So if Google can do that now, granted, 574 00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:34,320 Speaker 1: most of these uh, these these features that we've talked 575 00:31:34,320 --> 00:31:36,960 Speaker 1: about are really aimed at consumers, and these are really 576 00:31:37,040 --> 00:31:42,400 Speaker 1: consumer friendly features. But for example, the face face unlock 577 00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:46,240 Speaker 1: is not going to work for enterprise because if it 578 00:31:46,360 --> 00:31:49,560 Speaker 1: can be fooled and there's proprietary information on that phone. Yeah, 579 00:31:49,640 --> 00:31:52,560 Speaker 1: that's that's that's what we call a bad thing. Yeah, 580 00:31:53,040 --> 00:31:57,000 Speaker 1: so yeah, there, we'll we'll have to see. But uh, 581 00:31:57,160 --> 00:31:59,719 Speaker 1: I am interested to see how this turns out. I mean, 582 00:31:59,760 --> 00:32:02,160 Speaker 1: I am an Android phone user, so of course I'm 583 00:32:02,200 --> 00:32:04,760 Speaker 1: I'm eager to get hold of this on one of 584 00:32:04,800 --> 00:32:08,480 Speaker 1: my own devices, or maybe my next Android phone will 585 00:32:08,520 --> 00:32:10,720 Speaker 1: just natively support it. It will still be a while. 586 00:32:10,760 --> 00:32:13,880 Speaker 1: I'm under contract for another year, so it'll take a 587 00:32:13,960 --> 00:32:15,959 Speaker 1: little bit before I upgrade. Yeah, your next phone will 588 00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:19,160 Speaker 1: be running jelly Bean or whatever it is. It's going 589 00:32:19,200 --> 00:32:22,800 Speaker 1: to be starting with K. Yeah, maybe we'll be like, 590 00:32:23,560 --> 00:32:27,640 Speaker 1: I don't know, Koala custard with a K Kala custard 591 00:32:27,640 --> 00:32:29,000 Speaker 1: now would be that I guess that would be an 592 00:32:29,080 --> 00:32:33,240 Speaker 1: Uben two thing. Yeah, well closer to it. Yeah. Anyway, 593 00:32:33,760 --> 00:32:37,360 Speaker 1: Well that'll wrap up this discussion. Oh uh did you 594 00:32:37,520 --> 00:32:44,040 Speaker 1: hear what their new type face is called? Al Right, everyone, 595 00:32:44,640 --> 00:32:47,560 Speaker 1: that wraps up our discussion about Android. 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