Tuesday 30 October 2012

Why Android Jelly Bean 4.2′s Multiple User Account only for tablet?


One of the best (and most useful) options of Google’s android Jelly Been 4.2 update is multiple user account switching, giving up the choice to have many users share access to a device, while keeping their settings and content walled far from one another. It’s one thing we’ve been used to on PCs forever, therefore it’s guaranteed to be welcome by android users. However, we’ve learned that the new feature can seemingly only apply to tablets, actually as way as Google’s Nexus range is concerned. Phones need not apply. the explanation — and this is often strictly an educated guess on my half — may preferably be that back within the day Nokia already patented the concept (via its involvement with Symbian).
The patent ‘Multi-user mobile telephone’, whose artificer is Tim Ocock, associate ex-Symbian worker, is described as follows:

"A mobile telephone is designed to be used by several different end-users at different times. A first end-user can alter the mobile telephone so that it operates in a manner specific to that first end-user and a subsequent end-user can alter the mobile telephone so that it operates in a manner specific to that subsequent end-user; each end-user has only to respond to prompts displayed on a screen in order to alter the mobile telephone so that it operates in a manner specific to that end-user."

here’s how Google’s marketing material describes the new tablet-only Android feature 

"With support for multiple users, you can give each person their own space. Everyone can have their own homescreen, background, widgets, apps and games – even individual high scores and levels! And since Android is built with multitasking at its core, it’s a snap to switch between users – no need to log in and out. Available only on tablets."

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