Simplicity and Beauty

Simplicity & beauty

Android 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich—brings an entirely new look and feel to Android. Simple layouts with subtle animations and delightful flourishes make everything feel alive.
Gone are lists of text with icons, replaced by big pictures and bold text, just like a magazine. Instead of boring button presses, find your way around with fun, consistent gestures.
The home screen, web browser, email and everything in between have been rethought and redesigned to make Android simple, beautiful, and beyond smart.
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Data Usage

Check data usage

To help avoid data overage charges, you can instantly see your data usage for any period of time or any app—and get notified before reaching your limit. You can even restrict background data for individual apps.
The Web at Your Finger Tips

Browse the Web at your fingertips

View multiple open pages, swipe to get rid of those you're finished with, and enter incognito mode for private browsing.
Sync your Google Chrome bookmarks so your favorite sites are always handy. Share pages with friends instantly. And save any web page for offline reading.

Rapid-Fire Typing

Rapid-fire typing

Dozens of improvements to auto-correction and touch recognition make the keyboard feel natural. A new inline spell checker lets you quickly edit misspelled words. It's never been easier to type long emails or messages on your phone.

Type with your voice

Galaxy Nexus listens. Simply touch the microphone on the keyboard and start talking to write emails, SMS, or any other text—more than 20 languages supported. Text appears in real time, so there’s no waiting for server processing.

Gmail to go

Gmail makes email fast, fun, and approachable. Swipe between conversations to catch up quickly, and search for emails even without a data connection. Get instant access to rich Gmail features no matter where you are.

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Conquer Your Calendar

Add events quickly, sync with Google Calendar or Microsoft Exchange, and even pinch to adjust your calendar display. It’s time to stay on schedule and on top of your game.
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Snap a screenshot

To capture anything you see on your screen, just hold down the power and volume down buttons together. A screenshot appears immediately in Gallery, ready to share.
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Your best business partner

Ice Cream Sandwich is business ready, making it easy to take your Galaxy Nexus to work. With support for Microsoft Exchange, device management, VPNs, encryption, and loads of productivity improvements, Galaxy Nexus is ready to work hard.
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Accessibility

Use a simple gesture to activate eyes-free touch exploration. Enlarge the system-wide font, change the browser's zoom behavior, or make other adjustments to suit your needs.

Connect and Share

Connect & share

Real-life sharing is nuanced and rich. Galaxy Nexus makes sharing with mobile devices just as easy at it is in person.


Fast Camera Shutter

Zero shutter lag camera

Galaxy Nexus has a full-featured camera with automatic focus, top notch low-light performance, and zero shutter lag. Open it right from your lock screen, and fire off a photo instantly. Snapping several photos is quicker than the blink of an eye.
Panoramic Camera

Single-Motion Panoramic Mode

Take beautiful panorama pictures with Galaxy Nexus. Just point and touch the shutter and pan your phone from one side to another. Android immediately stitches together an expansive panorama photo, ready to share.
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HD Video

HD video camera

Shoot video in full 1080p, and snap still shots while you're at it. Continuous focus, real-time zoom, and time lapse mode give you the power to shoot stunning videos.
When your footage is ready, create your own movie with Movie Studio and upload it to YouTube.
Instant Upload

Instant upload

Your photos upload themselves with Instant Upload, which makes it much easier to share them with family and friends. If you’ve signed up for Google+, you can enable Instant Upload and share photos with anyone you choose.

Master Your Photos

Instant photo editing

A full-featured photo editor lets you add filters and effects, adjust color, straighten, reduce red eye, crop, rotate, flip, and even doodle on your favorite photos—right after you take them. Your edits are saved as a copy, so you can always get to the original. And one-touch sharing lets you share your masterpiece.

Live effects

When you shoot videos, you can choose from a number of silly faces and other fun effects. Galaxy Nexus is smart enough to recognize individual facial features—give your friends big eyes, squeeze heads, make noses bigger. Or change the scenery with background replacement.


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Google Music

Jam on with Google Music

Google Music makes discovery, purchase, and listening effortless and fun. Store your entire collection for free, and stream your music to your Galaxy Nexus, computer, or other Android devices. Upload music from your computer, or add your iTunes® library, and everything stays in sync automatically. Even when you have no data connection—just select the albums, artists, and playlists you want for offline listening.
Beyond Smart

Beyond smart

If you ever lose your phone or switch phones, just sign in with your Google account to retrieve all your stuff.


Android Beam

Android Beam

Share contacts, web pages, YouTube videos, directions, and apps—just by touching two NFC-enabled Android phones back to back. Tap to beam what’s on your phone to your friend.
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Face Unlock

Face Unlock

Galaxy Nexus introduces a new, fun way to unlock your phone—with a smile. State-of-the-art facial recognition technology lets you switch on your phone and look at it to get past the lock screen—no passwords to remember, nothing to type or swipe.
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Apps and Games

Apps & games

Play games, keep up with friends, and stay connected – all from the palm of your hand. With more than 300,000 apps to choose from, you can find the right app when you need it, wherever you are.
You can also browse Android Market on your computer to send apps wirelessly to your Galaxy Nexus.
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Find your way around with Maps

Whether you're driving across the country or walking city streets, Google Maps can help you get around and find places to go. Explore the world around you, search for and rate nearby businesses, check in to share your location, dive into Street View, or see live traffic information.
Pass the Popcorn

Pass the popcorn

Rent your favorite movies from Android Market, starting at $1.99. Movies are available instantly in full HD—no waiting for downloads and syncing or worrying about storage space. You can watch them on any Android device or on the web—or offline.
Be a Bookworm

Be a bookworm

With nearly three million free digital books and hundred of thousands of titles ready for purchase, finding what you want to read on Android Market is easy. Your library is stored online, so you can read all of your favorite books on just about any device, Galaxy Nexus included. Whenever and wherever you reopen a book you'll pick up right where you left off.
YouTube

YouTube

YouTube has also been updated to make use of the HD display on Galaxy Nexus. View your favorite YouTube content in vibrant, sharp high-definition.