Windows 8 vs Andriod Jelly Bean

  Windows 8 vs Andriod Jelly Bean

 

         Goggle officially launched new version of Andriod 4.1 code named Jelly bean few days after the launch of windows 8 tablet from Microsoft. Seems like both the giants competing with each other and with the Apple ios to get the 80% market share occupied by Apple tablets. Google embedded many new features in jelly bean. Google Android has the advantage of being open source operating system when compared to the other two. Microsoft Windows 8 has the advantage of better UI with a tile based home screen and good application development options for developers when compared to other two.

Here are list of comparisons: 

	Windows 8	Jelly Bean
kernel and Hardware	WindowsNT one stop solution for all pcs, tablets (Windows RT)and Smartphone’s	Linux, only for Smartphone’s and Tablets
UI	Rich UI interface, Tiled home screen, smooth and fast.	Not that good as Windows 8 But still improved a lot compared to 4.0
Hardware Supported	Supported by limited devices, but most of the processor manufacturing firms are providing support for windows 8.	Being a open source supported by most of the devices available in market.
Network	GSM/CDMA	GSM/CDMA
Security	High on security features	Still needs to be improved.
3D Maps	Available	Available using Google earth.
Default Browser	Internet explorer 10.	Google Chrome
Flash	Internet explorer 10 has support for flash.	No flash support
Home Screen	Tiled	Icons and widgets.
Apps	Over 150000	around 600000
Near Field Communication	Available	Available
Video calls 3G/4G	Available	Available
Cloud Storage	No	No
Cloud support	Sky Drive	Google sync and Google drive.
Notifications	Toast and banners	Pull down, expandable actions.
OS Type	Not an open source OS, cannot be customized.	Open source can be customizable.
Wifi sync	Available	No
Voice assistant	TellMe	Google Now
Voice recognition	Available for launching apps	Available for launching apps
Office	Office Mobile	Google docs
Gaming	Xbox Live	No
Music Store	Xbox Music	Google Play
Social media Integration	WindowsLive, Linkedin, Twitter and Face book.	Twitter and Face book.

Must-have apps in Android Smartphone

  

These are few must – have applications for android device:

Advance task Killer:

Used for killing tasks and free up the memory. Basic version is available for free.

SkyWire browser:

This is by far the best browser for android to watch compressed videos on the web. You have to buy license to enable watching videos features. This browser optimizes around 75% of bandwidth for watching videos.

Vitalplayer:

This is the best video player for android. It plays almost all the formats of videos for android with good resolution. It is the only player which will any file, even if the file size is more than 4GB. This is available for free.

Apndriod:

If you don’t want your 3G/EDGE/GPRS to be enabled for data connectivity as most of android apps run in background and will use your 3G/EDGE/GPRS for data connection. Then use this tool, this will enable/disable the data connection from 3G/EDGE/GPRS on single-click.

Headset button controller:

This will enable next/back/volume buttons on your earphones for listening songs in some audio players. You have to buy this.

Google Andriod 4.1 – Jelly Bean first look

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Google released it latest version of mobile operating system update i.e. Andriod 4.1 code named Jelly bean. This will be available by min-july in the googles newly announced Nexus 7 tablet and some other mobiles. This Version of OS mainly concentrated on performance and UI responsiveness.

These are the major features of Jelly Bean:

Android Beam - NFC:

Jelly bean supports the near-field communications (NFC) technology where it can share photos, videos and other files, just by tapping two NFC-enabled phones.

 

UI Responsiveness - Project Butter:

This is one of the major features of Jelly bean, where this is optimized for best performance and quick UI response by reducing touch latency.  The overall UI in Jelly bean is now much smoother and responsive. There are Improvements in frame rates.

 

Voice typing with Offline Support - Google Now:

Can call this Google advanced version of siri. You need not need data connection for voice detection feature in Jelly bean; this supports offline voice typing. But for now it only supports US English language voice recognition.

 

Notifications - New Styles:

Provided new features for expanding and collapsing notifications with swipe. Even the display of notification is larger now. Support for content and photos in Notifications. Notification style is also changed, looks richer now. Notification styles can be customized. User can respond to the notification like calling, sending mails.

 

Maps - Offline Support:

Jelly bean supports offline maps which are downloaded. Now you can navigate in android mobiles without data connection using the downloaded maps of cities.

 

Keyboard - Text prediction:

Jelly Bean supports smarter keyboard, the prediction algorithm of this keyboard is able to predict your next text before you start typing complete word. And this feature works offline i.e. without any network connection.

Now supports bidirectional text with support to other languages, support for three new souths Indian languages.

 

 

HomeScreen - UI:

Supports auto arrangements of widgets and apps. Widgets and apps can be removed with swipe shortcuts. Option’s to move and resize current widgets to fit new widgets.

 

Photos – Albums:

Support for high resolution contact photos. Photo Gallery looks good now. Much smoother and faster navigation with in the gallery. Delete photos by swipe