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Banned
Funniest thing about this update was that I got the notification from ATT the morning after my friend helped me root my phone and install CM 10 which is basically stock Jelly Bean!
There are a ton of features that aren't in CM that are in this update. It's like a completely new phone. Only thing I wish it had now, was a qHD display (considering when it was released, 720p is a bit of a pipe dream ).
Battery Life on LTE seems to have stabilized and it seems like it's about what it was before the update. Guess it needed a bit of time to adjust, or something... Oddly...
Non-Exhaustive List of things I've noticed so far...
- AT&T Bar bloatware in Browser... Can be turned off... Tons of AT&T bloatware to disable :-(
- Video Player has a Trimmer (Editor) Built In.
- Video Player has Pop-Up Play.
- Can Take Screenshots form a Video in the Video Player.
- Gallery Supports Face Tagging (Via Facebook Integration).
- Gallery Supports Buddy Photo Share.
- Camera app is faster. Camera Quality (i.e. Software under the hood) seems improved.
- S-Beam is Built In (Android Beam is still there, ofc).
- Blocking Mode (Can Be Very Useful)
- Power Saving seems less configurable than on ICS/TW4 (can't set a % for it to kick in anymore).
- Lock Screen Short Cuts
- Weather Widgets actually update your location if set to that, in TW4/ICS, they never updated...
- Google Now due to JB, but don't personally think it's that useful...
- Photo Editor has been ripped out, but Google has Snapseed for free and there is Photoshop Touch for pay.
- Music Editor is the same from the GS3. Tons of features compared to TW4 (SoundAlive, Music Square, Configurable Play Speed, etc.).
- A ton of updated Widgets.
- Massively updated Calendar App.
- Task App is gone. Tasks are integrated into the Calendar. If you want PUSH'd tasks, you can use Microsoft Outlook.com and the Samsung Calendar/Exchange Client supports its Tasks...
- Stock Email App has functionality equivalent to VIPs on iOS Mail App.
- Stock Email App supports HTML Email in Microsoft Outlook.com EAS accounts.
- Samsung Keyboard is not usable. The One in TW4/ICS was borderline unusable if u had predictions turned on. This one is great and has swiping as well. However, there's a bug that doesn't let you set a different default keyboard and will reset it to Samsung's keyboard every reboot/restart and randomly otherwise...
- The Android OS seems to have massively improved memory management compared to TW4/JB. 20MB more RAM is accessible to apps (every bit helps).
- Messaging App UI has improved. However lack of configurable font size (outside of Volume Rocker toggle setting) and overloaded menus are a huge annoyance there...
- File Manager improved. Also supports something similar to Windows 7/8 "Libraries."
- Notification Shade improved, but a bit cramped now... Tons of settings toggles in there.
- Voice Talk gone. S Voice wasn't back ported, but Google Voice Search kinda covers that.
- Universal Search is back!
- I think they did something with the display. Maybe it's the TW Nature overlay. But Fonts look better. Color Temperature seems improved. White balance and Saturation seems better. It almost seems like more content fits on the screen.
- Kies Air no longer in the Stock ROM. Can be gotten from the Play Store.
- ChatOn is not built into the Stock ROM.
- Kies over WiFi has been added back in, thankfully...