Convenient and intuitive interface that makes it easier and more pleasant to work with the device on Android base... It takes very little time to customize the screens. The interface is able to automatically distribute widgets and programs across screens. Useful and necessary widgets can be arranged on one screen - one glance will be enough for you to keep abreast of current city events, weather and traffic situation.
The Yandex.Shell address book contains phone numbers of organizations. Just enter a query - for example "restaurant" - and the built-in search will show the phone number and address of a nearby restaurant. If you receive a call from an unknown number, Shell will check the availability of this number in the database. And if this number belongs to the organization, then you will see its name in the call log.
Improvements compared to J. Shell:
T9 search has appeared in the dialer. It's good. But! In such an implementation, the dialer window would not hurt to combine with the Journal. And make the dial pad collapsible and expandable.
In the Journal, the display of the SIM cards, from / to which the call was made, has finally appeared (relevant for dvuhsimochnikov)
In the bottom bar, you can create folders
Deterioration:
Lost App Drawer
Remained unchanged:
We didn’t make a transparent status bar
The position of the Yandex team on this launcher:
1) this version of the shell is "leaked" from the beta of the whale, and is not supported outside the official versions of the whale and will not be supported.
2) we read bug reports and wishes, but we should not expect any reaction from us to them, because see point 1.
Open source operating system for smartphones and tablets Android code... A former member of the Yandex.Kit development team announced the closure of the Rusbase project. The information was confirmed by an employee of the partner company.
According to the same source, the Kit development team has been disbanded, and its members are scattered on other projects. In addition, some of Kit's developers left the company. In April of this year, the team that worked on the design of Yandex.Kit, posted on Facebook the entry "Goodbye, Yandex."
The core of the team working on the project was made up of employees of the St. Petersburg company SPB Software, acquired by Yandex in 2011. The studio specialized in complex software products for mobile platforms, including the alternative SPB Shell for Android.
Yandex representatives deny that the project was closed:
“We launched Yandex.Kit on February 19, 2014. Last year, we agreed to preinstall Yandex.Kit on Explay, Huawei, Smarto, DEXP devices, - the press service of Yandex reported, - Now this product is not actively developing, including because of opposition from Google. At the moment on Yandex.Kita, as far as we know, some Smarto and DEXP tablets are still on sale. "
In February of this year, Yandex filed a petition with the Federal Antimonopoly Service demanding that Google check for violations of the antimonopoly laws of Russia. Yandex believes that Google is violating the principle of free competition in the Android smartphone market, as it puts pressure on manufacturers who want to use their firmware options. In mid-April, the FAS granted Google's petition to postpone the consideration of the case - it is expected that the next meeting of the commission on this issue will take place in the second half of May. Yandex's statement was supported by the FairSearch alliance (including Microsoft, Nokia, Oracle and others), which back in 2013 called on the European Antimonopoly Commission to consider a proposal to separate the Android operating system from Google.
In April this year, the European Commission sent the search giant an official statement of claims - the document claims that Google is using its dominant position in the Internet search market in the European Economic Area (EEA) to promote its own services for the sale of goods and services. If Google is proven guilty, then the corporation faces a fine of 10% of its annual revenue (about $ 6 billion).
For Yandex, the value of Kit was in replacing all the pre-installed Google services with the corresponding Yandex services (maps, browser, calendar, etc.). Google play is replaced by Yandex.Store, and Yandex.SpeechKit is used instead of Google Voice. The company needed its own mobile operating system, as the sharp increase in sales of Android smartphones in the Russian market in 2012 began to threaten the dominance of the company's services in the CIS markets and Yandex's revenue from search. In 2010, Android occupied an 11% share in Russia, in 2011 the share increased to 29%, and in 2012 - to 58% (data from J’son & Partners Consulting). In 2014, Android was installed on 86% of all smartphones in Russia.
For smartphone manufacturers, Yandex.Kit was distributed free of charge, but this did not have a particular impact on the market position. Analysts believe that Yandex.Kit failed to interest users.
Android device owners are increasingly choosing to search for information on Google. According to a Morgan Stanley survey, 51% of Android smartphone users prefer search from Google, and only 41% from Yandex. According to Liveinternet.ru, Yandex is the most popular search engine on the Russian Internet. But Liveinternet.ru also records a drop in Yandex's share: over the year it decreased by 2.8 percentage points to 58.9% (at the end of January 2015), while Google's share increased by 5.9 percentage points over the same period. P. up to 32.8%.
Tablets and smartphones with Yandex.Kit preinstalled are still available for purchase in Yandex.Market. Also available for download is the Yandex.Shell interface for smartphones, based on the SPB Shell. A source close to the company told Rusbase that the Erica project continues to exist within Yandex, implying an even deeper modification of Android. It is no longer led by the former SPB Software team, but by Tigran Khudaverdyan, the head of Yandex's mobile and software products division.
By the end of 2014, Yandex earned 50.767 billion rubles. Net profit amounted to RUB 17.02 billion. Most of the income (90.2%) came from contextual advertising services.
Anton Nekhaenko and Elina Asfaganova worked on the material.
And so, the tradition of creating custom firmware has reached Russia. Of course, local programmers know better the needs of the market and average users, so the product is primarily intended for residents of the post-Soviet space. What is Yandex.Kit What are the main features of this innovation and what has the whales to do with - we will try to explain in this article.
Of course, at the heart of Whale lies AOSP, it could not be otherwise. Wonder why in Yandex only now they decided to take this step, because both companies have been competing with each other for a long time, the Russian search engine cosplays all Western innovations in every possible way, but he could not decide on the firmware for the most popular operating system. Creators Yandex.Kit emphasize that the search engine processes more than 250 million requests from Russian users every day, which means that it thoroughly knows about all the needs and characteristics of the local audience.
In addition, Keith understands Russian much better than his competitors. First, the built-in keyboard knows what cases are and how to apply them in practice. Thus, the input of words and the output of hints are carried out taking into account this feature. Cyrillic and Latin are also displayed on the keyboard at the same time. Secondly, Keith is also not alien to the various forms of names inherent in our speech, so it will be more difficult to get confused in the address book, the latter, by the way, is endless. True, why do you need so many contacts, the developers do not explain, but the marketing ploy is not bad. Another feature of the address book is integration with Yandex.Directory, this allows you to search for phone numbers of organizations directly in the application. Interaction with the service will also allow identifying some unknown incoming numbers. The data will be downloaded from the cloud, which means that a timely Internet connection will be required.
And, of course, all available in vanilla Android "e services (or almost all) are replaced by their Yandex analogues... On the one hand, this is good, since these analogs are more in line with the needs of the market (as, in fact, it was stated), but in some places their quality is very different from the originals, which, in fact, is bad. Let's start with Yandex.Maps- all applications using geolocation (all subject to Yandex). Another important point is the voice recognition technology Yandex.SpeechKit... There should be no complaints here, because the native language. Will there be Yandex.Kite? It is unlikely, because at Yandex has its own application market. Will it be possible to acquire access to a normal market? Most likely, yes, but there is a high probability that you will have to hack something.
Also in favor of the absence Google Play says the fact that in Yandex.Kite there will be no list of applications, instead they will be sent straight to the homescreen, which means that the developers are counting on the fact that you will not have many applications. In such a situation, access to a normal market can be blocked, so that the temptation to install a lot good applications did not have. By the way, this will also fail for the reason that the memory on smartphones will be negligible, especially on a more budgetary one.
Used as a homescreen in the firmware Yandex.Shell... According to the developers, the new home screen has been completely redrawn and re-equipped for all needs. As a result, users should receive an "ergonomic, intuitive interface". It looks like a carousel, but the screenshots don't inspire much confidence. Maybe on the device this decision will look more mature.
In addition, the developers announced moderate power consumption of smartphones for Yandex.Kite and increased working time. And all at the expense of minimizing the number of processes simultaneously running on the device. It looks something like this: developers sacrifice multitasking in order to extend the device's operating time. At the same time, you can save on hardware.
It is not clear why such an emphasis is placed on the convenience of switching from an old smartphone to a device on Whale... If in the case of normal Android devices can be backed up and moved from one smartphone to another, then the developers from Yandex boast that " Yandex.Move will help to transfer the most important thing - contacts from the address book. " installed applications, call lists, text messages?
Install Yandex.Kit there will be no separate possibility on a smartphone. At least that's what the creators of the firmware say. At the same time, anyone can sign up as a tester and receive the necessary files. To do this, you need to roll a letter about who you are, why do you need Whale and what is your experience of testing new firmware. Everyone is asked to write here: [email protected] It is clear that after a while Yandex.Kit will appear somewhere on XDA: forum users there simply can not help but be interested in such a phenomenon.
Smartphones with which it is easy
You can see such a slogan on the page Yandex.Kit dedicated to smartphones on Whale: Huawei Honor 3 Yandex and Explay flame... The sales of these devices will begin in the spring of 2014, and first of all, users should expect "built-in applications and technologies that help millions of people every day" and 50 bonus gigabytes for Yandex.Disk... Concerning technical characteristics, then they are as follows: Huawei Honor 3 Yandex will be equipped with a 4.7-inch display with a resolution of 1280x720 and a pixel density of 312 PPI, a quad-core Hisilicon K3V2E processor at 1.5 GHz, 2 GB of RAM, 8 GB of memory with microSD support up to 32 GB, a main camera of 13 MP and a front camera of 1 , 3 MP, 2150 mAh battery and operating system Android 4.2.2. Concerning Explay flame, then it will be simpler: a 4.5-inch display with a resolution of 960x540 (the pixel density is not specified, since it is negligible), a 1.3 GHz MTK 6582M quad-core processor, 8 and 2 MP cameras, 1 GB of RAM, 4 GB of memory , 1700 mAh battery, Android 4.2 OS. Pricing is not yet known, but more information will appear on MWC 2014 within a week.
Well, the whale here, most likely, symbolizes power.
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Yandex.Kit is an alternative system for smartphones created by the search giant Yandex. This launcher is based on the new mobile system and is fundamentally based on the official one that was released specifically for Android OS devices.
This application allows you to change the operating interface of the system of your smartphone Samsung Galaxy S5 and make it more convenient and visual. Now the work with the phone will take place on a new level. The main screen will turn into a single informative environment - each of the desktops will contain individual programs and widgets, which will make it possible to quickly find out the hot news, weather, various news that may be useful to the user, view photos, and so on.
A separate feature of Yandex.Kit is the lack of an application menu as such, and in order to see them, you just need to flip through main screen to the side. Together with the main interface will be replaced and The address book which will become more convenient. Smart search allows you to quickly find contacts or, by the required query, find the nearest municipal and entertainment establishments and find out their contacts.
