But in the public realm, she pictures a much smoother operator.

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This isn't a revolutionary update, but it refines and polishes the operating system by making it much smoother and faster to use (Google calls this "butteriness") and adding the Google Now feature.

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Once again we don't know if you would be able to tell that much of a difference in the picture quality but it should give you a lot smoother playback.

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