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Google Search

With Jelly Bean, a redesigned experience uses the power of the Knowledge Graph to show you search results in a richer way. It's easier to quickly get precise answers to search queries and explore and browse search results.

Get to Google Search faster: Google Search can be opened directly from the lock screen by swiping up. For devices with software navigation keys, you can now swipe up from the system bar to quickly access Google Search with Google Now. For devices with a hardware search key, you can tap it to launch Google Search.

If you're using a wired headset, long press the headset's button to activate Voice Search. You can quickly perform a search query by voice and have the result read back to you.

You can say "Google" to activate Voice Search from within Google Search.

For many search queries performed through Voice Search, you can now hear a spoken answer.

Voice Search recognition is now significantly faster so you can search quickly on the fly.

Voice Search can now recognize queries even when you have a poor network connection.

Google Now

Google Now brings you just the right information at just the right time. Cards appear throughout the day at the moment you need them, and appear as a notification when they're important.

Weather card: When you start your day, Google Now shows weather for your current location and work.

Traffic card: Get traffic conditions and alternate routes before you leave home or work.

Transit card: When you're near a bus stop or a subway station, this card shows you what buses or trains are next.

Places card: When you're on the go, Google Now will suggest nearby bars, restaurants, and places of interest.

Flight card: See flight delays and traffic conditions to the airport for flights you've recently searched for.

Sports card: You can see live scores and upcoming games and also buy game tickets on the fly.

Currency card: When you're traveling, quickly check the local conversion rate.

Translation card: When you're in a foreign country, you can quickly translate words into the local language.

Google Apps

Google+

As you swipe through the stream, large bold photos now fall into place with animations giving you a more interactive browsing experience.

Google+ on tablets has a new magazines layout in the stream.

You can now create and manage Google+ Events right from your device. Posts and photos are saved to the event so you can relive the party any time.

Party Mode lets you instantly upload and share photos during an Event so you capture all the right moments in one place.

New notifications let you +1, comment, or reshare without having to open the Google+ app.

You can now see live video streams of all participants in a Hangout.

A new navigation menu lets you easily navigate through the app and quickly see Google+ notifications.

When viewing a post, you can now swipe to expand and view comments.

Gmail

Gmail has an optimized view for 7" tablets in portrait orientation to give you a better experience reading email.

Gmail and Email feature updated notifications will give you a preview and digest of your inbox. Notifications will also now display the full text of new mail.

YouTube

YouTube has a new, more intuitive user interface, including a guide that provides quick access to your channel subscriptions.

YouTube can now preload videos from subscribed channels for seamless playback even on slower networks.

With a new integrated menu, you can easily watch YouTube on the big screen with Nexus Q or YouTube TV.

Maps

With support for offline maps, you can select an area to cache and access it even when you don't have a data connection.

Compass Mode for indoor views and street view is more accurate and responsive with gyroscope support.

With Zagat ratings and reviews built in to Maps, you can quickly get the information you need about places you search for.

You can now browse Google Offers within Maps to find local deals.

Get indoor walking directions in Maps.

Currents

With performance enhancements throughout the application and updates to the user interface, you can browse articles quickly and intuitively. With an enhanced layout engine for articles, you can enjoy dramatic, large images on a variety of articles.

Currents now uses hardware acceleration to make moving between articles smoother.

Currents has a new 7" tablet layout that is optimized for the form factor.

For editions written in other languages, you can now translate text into your preferred language.

Google Play

A new set of recommendations widgets use a variety of signals — content that people with similar tastes have purchased, stuff that's popular around where you live, content people in your Google+ circles have +1'ed, and more — to recommend new content like apps, games, music, and movies.

A new My Library widget, which displays all of your recent movies, books, music, and magazines and dynamically changes based on what you've been engaging with recently.

Smart App Updates ensure that only the parts of an application that have changed will be downloaded when you next update it, saving on time, bandwidth, and battery when updating apps.

Jelly Bean introduces app encryption for paid apps

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Google Play Books

Embedded audio tracks and videos can now be easily streamed directly within the book you're reading.

You can now add bookmarks to remember important information for later or pick up where you left off reading.

Play Books now offers fixed layout books, optimized for tablet-reading of books with beautifully designed graphics and layouts, like children's books and comic books.

For visually impaired users, automatic text-to-speech settings have been enabled

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Google Play Movies and TV Shows

Movies and TV shows can be quickly downloaded for viewing offline, now with just one tap.

When you make a new purchase from Google Play, that item will be synced directly to the Play Movies and TV Shows app, ready for you to watch when you open the app.

You can watch Movies and TV Shows with Nexus Q by using the integrated media routing menu.

You can zoom in during video playback.

Google Play Music

A new Sound Search widget lets you identify songs you hear and purchase them directly from Google Play.

The Google Play Music widget now lets you thumbs up songs as their playing and features a new design for better readability.

Playlist art is automatically created based on the album art of songs in that playlist.

In the now playing bar, you can swipe between screens.

The Recent screen features larger album art.

You can delete tracks within the app.

There is a Now Playing queue of tracks.

There is an integrated media routing menu for listening to tracks on Nexus Q, bluetooth audio devices and headsets.

You can set a song as your ringtone from Play Music, and the new ringtone editor lets you crop that track to the exact section you'd like to use for the ringtone.