Android 4.1 Jelly Bean rolling out to Galaxy Nexus, hands-on screenshot gallery

The main display of Google Now shows a slick graphic of the area where you are located with a Google Search bar over the top. Below you will find dynamically varying "cards".

In addition to weather, you can see appointments, directions, and more.

As you start to use Google Now you will see different prompts for actions.

While Google Now is designed to figure out your intent automatically, you can also go into card settings and manually setup various cards.

Here you can see settings for more Google Now cards.

You can control when cards appear and other card specific settings. The lower setting is generally for the notifications in each section.

If you commute by bus or train then you should check out the public transit card.

There are not many settings for travel, but this can be a handy feature if you have to drive to appointments.

Google has some pretty solid traffic data thanks to Google Maps.

If you search for flights then this card may appear. I would like to see some integration with TripIt or other services.

You need to conduct many searches to get good results and I find using Google voice search to be quite helpful.

A currency converter, translation utility, and home time widget are all part of the travel settings.

The Places card is handy for finding restaurants and other local area attractions.

You can customize priority settings as well.

Here are what Places cards look like on the Galaxy Nexus.

If you press the menu button on the Google Now home screen then this is what options you will see.

There are a few Google Now settings that are not associated with specific cards.

Here are more settings for you to customize your experience.

There are plenty of options available for using the voice recognition technology.

Plenty of options for searching on your phone are available.

I know some people are not comportable giving their private data, but the more you allow the more comprehensive Google Now will be for you.

Here you can see the result when I searched for a recent baseball score.

Hmm, how about those Sounders?

Many results simply come to you as Google search results.

You can have Google Now solve math problems.

Image search results are provided too. Can you tell we picked up a new puppy?

Wikipedia results appear in Google Now.

Google Maps is well integrated into Google Now and very handy for quick searches.

One of my favorite morning cartoons as a kid.

The notifications have been improved with an updated UI that includes double height notifications.

The accounts setup area has been updated in Jelly Bean.

There are many different types of accounts you can sync with in Jelly Bean.

The keyboard has been updated and made better in Jelly Bean.

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