<\/a>*Insert Star Trek reference here*<\/p><\/div>\n
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NFC is getting an upgrade right out of the TouchPad as well. Android Beam lets two NFC-enabled Android devices share almost any info with just a touch and a screen tap. Contacts, photos, maps, you can even send someone to the Market page for whatever app you\u2019re using. It\u2019s good to see webOS continue to contribute great ideas to its competitors.<\/p>\n
And that\u2019s not the only place Google found inspiration. Android fanboys like myself took great joy just last week in pointing out that iOS 5 stole the Android notification system. Now it\u2019s the Apple fanboys\u2019 turn to laugh, as Android users learn to create folders by dropping icons on top of one another. This was one of the iOS features I was most jealous of, so I\u2019m happy to see it.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s no direct Siri competitor here, but Google\u2019s made a major improvement in their voice keyboard. Instead of saying a sentence and then waiting for it to be processed, you can now dictate to your phone and see the results as you go. This is going to make the entire voice input system a lot more useable.<\/p>\n
Google even took a page from the modders this time, adding music controls to the notification shade and the ability to clear notifications individually with a swipe. Both features are available in the popular Cyanogen Mod custom ROM.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s just the surface of what Google let us see tonight. There was plenty more, and I\u2019m sure there will be some great features we don\u2019t see until we get the Galaxy Nexus is in hand this November. Of course, we have yet to hear any of the phone\u2019s down sides (I\u2019m particularly nervous that not one word was said about battery life). Now\u2019s when my patience starts to wear thin, because I think I’ve already seen my next phone.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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