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Now on Tap anticipates what you need in the moment. With a simple tap, you can get cards with useful information and apps that feed your need to know.
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When you tap & hold on the home button, Now on Tap provides relevant info and shortcuts to your apps based on what you’re doing.
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Now on Tap can provide a card on Alt-J with shortcuts to relevant info in your apps.
Now on Tap can provide a card on Avec restaurant with shortcuts to relevant info in your apps.
Now on Tap can provide info about the zoo and even a shortcut to create a calendar event.
Those are just a few examples. With Now on Tap, get assistance without having to leave what you’re doing. Try it in an app or on a website - just tap & hold the home button from any screen.
A battery that works smarter, not harder
Android Marshmallow saves your juice for what matters most
Doze
When your device is at rest, Doze automatically puts it into a sleep state. So your phone can still set off your alarm in the morning even if you forgot to charge it. Phew!
App Standby
No more battery drain from seldom used apps: App Standby limits their impact on battery life so your charge lasts longer.
Permissions your way
No need to give apps access all the time. Android Marshmallow lets you define what you want to share and when. Turn permissions off at any time, too.
Simplified security with your fingerprint
Skip the crazy passwords: The key is at hand. Your fingerprint unlocks your phone and lets you securely breeze through sign in, the Play Store and even in apps.
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- Now on Tap: get assistance without having to leave what you’re doing—whether you’re in an app or on a website. Just touch and hold the home button.
- Do more with your voice. Now you can have a dialogue with any of your apps that support the new voice interaction service. For example, if a user says “play some music on TuneIn,” TuneIn will respond by asking “What genre?”.
- Direct Share: a fast and easy way to share to the right person in the right app.
- Doze: when your device is at rest, Doze automatically puts it into a sleep state to increase your standby battery life.
- App Standby: no more battery drain from seldom used apps; App Standby limits their impact on battery life so your charge lasts longer.
- USB Type C support*: Quickly transfer power and data all through the same cable. Lightning fast charging gives you hours of power in just minutes.
- On an Android Marshmallow device, apps designed for Android Marshmallow only ask for permission right when it’s needed. You can deny any permission and still continue to use the app.
- Advanced controls to turn permissions on or off for all your installed apps.
- Verified boot: when your Android device boots up, it will warn you if the firmware and Android operating system have been modified from the factory version.
- Use fingerprint sensors* to unlock your device, make purchases in Google Play, authenticate transactions in apps, and pay in stores.
- Improved application performance and lower memory overhead for faster multi-tasking.
- Bluetooth™ stylus support*, including pressure sensitivity and modifier keys.
- Improved typesetting and text rendering performance.
- Smarter text selection, built-in undo/redo, and text actions closer to your fingers.
- Text selection actions such as a new Translate option that lets you translate text from one language to another right on the spot. (Note: requires Google Translate app installed)
- Save paper with duplex printing support.
- App links: enables installed apps to automatically handle their web URLs so you can jump right into the app, rather than the mobile web site, as appropriate.
- Easily toggle and configure Do Not Disturb from quick settings.
- If someone calls you twice within 15 minutes, you can choose to allow the call to ring through while Do Not Disturb is enabled.
- Use automatic rules to enable Do Not Disturb for as many custom time blocks as you like or around events on your calendar.
- Simplified volume controls allow you to manage notification, music, and alarm volumes easily from anywhere with the touch of your volume keys.
- Streamlined Settings let you manage an app’s settings all in one place, from battery and memory usage, to notifications and permissions controls.
- Google Now Launcher app list refreshed with search, fast alphabetic scrolling, and predictive App Suggestions.
- More power efficient Bluetooth Low Energy (“BLE”) scanning for nearby beacons and your accessories.
- Hotspot 2.0: Connect to compatible Wi-Fi networks seamlessly and securely.
- Bluetooth SAP: Make calls from your carphone using your phone’s SIM.
- Portable Wi-Fi hotspot now supports 5GHz frequency bands.
- Flex Storage: makes using SD cards or external storage devices as encrypted expanded storage for your apps and games on Android Marshmallow a whole lot easier.
- Easily transfer your accounts, apps and data to a new device.
- During setup, you can add an additional personal or corporate email account (e.g., IMAP)
- Auto backup for Apps: seamless app data backup and restore.
- Backup/restore of additional system settings such as your Sync settings, preferred apps, Do Not Disturb settings, Accessibility settings and enabled IMEs.
- MIDI support: create, consume, and perform music using your Android device with USB MIDI devices, MIDI over BLE, and software-based MIDI devices.
- Android is now available in 74+ languages with 6 new additions: Azerbaijani, Gujarati, Kazakh, Albanian, Urdu, and Uzbek.
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The newest version of Google’s mobile operating system is now available for a lucky few, and we’ve put Android 6.0, codenamed Marshmallow, through its paces on our test device.
There are significant changes, and we’ll highlight the most important ones to tablet users in this review.
Adoptable Storage
Android Adoptable Storage
Easily the most significant change — and the biggest improvement — in Android 6.0 is the ability to treat microSD cards as if they are internal storage. This means that people who have purchased a 16GB tablet can add a 64GB card and effectively have 80GB of internal storage.
When a microSD card is inserted, the user is given the option to treat it as Portable or Internal. Choosing Portable makes the card act like these always have: it can hold files and folders and be ejected at any time. The Internal option however results in the card being reformatted and encrypted.
Then some of the data previously stored internally on the device will be moved over to the adopted microSD card, and thereafter the tablet will automatically store new applications and files where there’s the most room.
The downside is that the days of easily switching between multiple microSD cards are over… at least for people who embrace Marshmallow’s Adoptable Storage. Removing a card that has been adopted immediately makes the tablet extremely crash prone at best, or non-functional at worst.
Adoptable Storage is a huge boon for those who purchased a tablet or phone with little internal storage and later came to regret it.
Now on Tap
The purpose of the Now on Tap feature in Android 6 is to bring users easy access to additional information on something they are already looking at. For example, someone who is reading a news article about Star Wars can use Now on Tap to pull up link to more news and images about this film series, the upcoming Force Awakens movie, and director J.J. Abrams. Or it can be used to get more details on a song and artist that’s playing.
Accessing Now on Tap is easy: just press and hold on the Home button. This will bring up cards with links to the additional information.
Google Now on Tap
This feature works very well when it’s obvious what the user is looking for, but it is hardly perfect. For example, pressing Now on Tap for a news article that mentions a restaurant in passing won’t always bring up links to more information on that restaurant.
It can be combined with the OK Google voice control. For example, with a card open for a local restaurant, saying “OK Google, how long will it take to drive there?” will bring up a set of directions.
Doze and App Standby
Google engineers came up with an innovative way to save power: Android 6 includes a feature called Doze to judge when a tablet or phone probably isn’t going to being used for a while, then putting it into a very low power mode. It does so with the motion sensors built into so many devices — if a device hasn’t moved in a while and its screen is off, then Marshmallow assumes it’s time to Doze.
Most obviously, it will shut down wireless networking. It will also prevent software running in the background from using resources. It will, however, allow alarms that the user has set to go off.
This can extend the battery life of tablets that have been set aside but not shut down. It won’t extend the time between recharges for devices that are being intermittently used.
However, App Standby might. The goal of this feature is to prevent software that’s running in the background from unnecessarily using system resources. Well-written applications already do this, but the fact is that not all apps are well written.
Background software that isn’t brought up to the foreground for a long time will be put into App Standby: it will lose its access to wireless networking and just about all system resources.
Going to Settings > Battery > Menu > Battery Optimization will display a list of applications that might be subject to App Standby. From there, users can specify any of these that they don’t ever want to be put into standby.
In our benchmarking tests, we found no change between a torture test of a Nexus 9 running Android 6.0 vs. the same device running the previous OS version, but our device never went into Doze nor did it have any software that needed to be put into App Standby.
General Stability
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Google says it worked hard to make this latest version more stable than its predecessors. This is the sort of thing that only shows up with long term use, but in our testing we found that Marshmallow seems less likely to crash than its predecessors, though it does still happen.
App Drawer
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The window that displays all installed software has received some improvements in Android 6. Most notably, instead of being broken up into windows that the user must scroll through horizontally, as in previous Android versions, the full alphabetical list now appears on one long window that the user can scroll down through.
Above this list are icons for frequently-used applications, and above that is a search box. Both can save time for those who have a lot of software on their tablet. For example, instead of manually scrolling through a long list of titles looking for “Solitaire” before realizing it’s called “Deluxe Solitaire”, the user can just start typing S-O-L and the game will appear.
Android 6.0 App Drawer
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These aren’t dramatic changes but they are welcome, especially when one considers how often the App Drawer is used.
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App Backups
Google has improved the ability to third-party applications to back up their data to the cloud, so that when an app is reinstalled it can return to the state it was in before. This is a feature that the developers must add to their own software, but once implemented it gives each app 25GB of free space on Google Drive to store the backup info.
Without this, restoring from a backup often means that third-party software is reinstalled without the user’s own data.
USB Flash Drives
A feature of Android tablets that’s probably not used enough is their ability to use flash drives. This can be especially handy for models that don’t include microSD card slots, like the HTC Nexus 9.
Perhaps more people will make use of these handy accessories now that Android 6 includes better support for them: when they are plugged in, a file browser opens to show their contents. This browser is a bit bare bones, but it’s able to display the files and folders on a USB drive, as well as move them around to internal storage or to Google Drive. They can also be deleted. What this simple browser can’t do is rename files; that requires a more full-featured one like the excellent and free ES File Explorer.
This feature can be taken advantage of even on tablets that don’t have full-size USB ports, as there are a number of flash drives that include both micro-USB and regular USB jacks. These are made by companies like Kingston and Strontium and are very convenient for switch files between a laptop and tablet.
Those who make use of Adoptable Storage might start seeing more need for thumb drives, as they will no longer be able to use microSD cards as additional external storage.
Permissions
Previously, applications would ask for all the permissions they needed at the time they were installed. Now, the apps will ask for permission to do something the first time they actually need to do it.
This is a more logical system, and should help cut down on fraud. It’s easy to just hit “Approve” for everything when installing a new app without paying careful attention, but if a game suddenly asks for permission to access the Contacts lists for no apparent reason, that should alert the user that something’s wrong.
Even better, a user can deny an application access to a feature but continue using the software. For example, if a Camera app wants access to location data, and the user has no intention of GPS marking on their pictures, they can deny this permission and still keep snapping pics. Later, if they try to include GPS info in pictures, they’ll be informed why they can’t do this and given the option to enable that feature.
This is another feature that third-party developers have to implement in their own software. Otherwise, they will continue to act like apps always have: permissions are “all or nothing”, and people who don’t want to give an application access to one feature are blocked from installing the software.
Cut, Copy, and Paste
Google has moved where the Cut/Copy/Paste pop-up appears when selecting text. Previously, it was always at the top of the screen, but it now shows up next to the text being selected.
This is another change that’s not major, but it’s welcome, as the new location is more intuitive.
Android 6.0 Cut, Copy, Paste
Hardware-Specific Changes
Android 6 includes support for USB Type C, a new format that offers faster recharge times and quicker data transfers. This doesn’t change anything about current models that have micro-USB ports, but it’s something those in the market for new devices should be aware of: anyone buying a tablet in 2016 that doesn’t have a USB-C slot should think twice.
In addition, Google integrated support for biometric fingerprint scanners into Marshmallow. Again, this isn’t much help for people who already have tablets without biometric security, but it should encourage future shoppers to look for ones that do.
Support for 4K screens has also been added.
Conclusion
Android 6.0 Marshmallow includes some very welcome improvements, especially Adoptable Storage and the redesigned App Drawer. Also welcome are all Google’s efforts to make the user interface a bit less kludgy, and the whole operating system more stable.