Hands On With Google Now on Ice Cream Sandwich | Pocketnow

Опубликовано 13 декабря 2012, 5:40

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Android Jelly Bean brought with it a whole new way to search and get up-to-date and location relevant information: Google Now. Search results are fast, beautiful, and usually pretty accurate. When compared against Apple's Siri, Google Now wins in many regards.

The bad news? Officially Google Now is only available on tablets and smartphones running Google's latest operating systems (4.1 and 4.2). Sure, there are ways to hack the feature in, we even reported on one such method back in July. Pocketnow's Stephen Schenck sums up that method:

"(it's) a little involved, requiring root, multiple edits to build.prop, and some file renaming. It's nothing too complicated, but if you don't want to risk any missteps, you'll be glad to see that a simpler option is also available. For that, you'll install a modified Google Now package, already configured to ignore the fact that you're not running Jelly Bean."

If you would like to run Google Now on your non-Jelly Bean smartphone or tablet without that level of hacking, now you can! All you need is a rooted device running a deodexed Ice Cream Sandwich ROM and the ability to side-load an APK. Pretty simple, right?

Hit play and see for yourself!

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