hello everyone. ok here we arewith android 4.2. it's still jelly bean but it's an update. so, the most immediate changes, we'rechecking this out on the nexus 7 tablet is new lock screen which has widgets available.
Android jelly bean, so you can now add currently three different types of widget, a clock, a calendar and gmail. and you can flick between them. we'll justgo back to that lock screen again.
because the other change is user accounts. so, what you can do is have multipleusers on one tablet device, it's only available on tablets, this feature. if you notice, when i press there itswitches the background to show that's it's using a different user. at the same time these widgets changeas well, so there's no widget there. if i switch to this one, there's the calendar widget.
really really nice. if you want to enablethat you can pull down here, into this new settings menu,that drops down it then shows you your logged in userhere and provides your quick settings. go into settings, and go to users. and here you can trigger the new user option. basically you add a user, it creates the new user we are going to set up now. it then logs you all the way back out basically
and then when that new user logs in, they get the welcome screen as normal.really, really nicely done. one of the other new areas is thenotification tray which now instead of requiring two fingers to pull out a marker in the notification area you can use one finger and just drag, which obviously makes a lot more sense. god knows why they did that the other way but that's a much much improved usability feature. interestinglyas well if you want the developer options which i know a few people do, go intosettings in the right place,if you want thedeveloper option, go to about tablet,
find your build number and keep tapping, until you 'you are now a developer'. you can then come back and getyour developer options. now, one interesting thing and i don't know if you're spotting this in others, in other jelly bean builds, force 4x msaa, the ellison technique. you can turn that on now. we'll see over time what difference thatmakes when we play some games.
those are the major changes. generally everything feels quite fluid,there is a new clock available by the way. let's just bring that up. so, this new clock which has a new font that is quite groovy. you've also got a start and stop timer and countdown clock as well which is represented by an egg timer.
works quite nicely.
overall, it just sort of feels like a bit ofspit and polish on everything and a few things sort of added in that maybe weren't quite ready for jelly bean 4.1. not bad at all.
