Android's freshly baked cookie the Ice Cream Sandwich aka ICS is hailed to be the best of the mobile and tablet worlds.
It combines the 2.x phone interface with 3.x tablet interface (honeycomb) to create one lethal weapon: A single cookie that runs on Android tablets and smart phones.
I found these really interesting pieces about all you need to know videos on ICS.
In a gist, the key selling points of ICS are:
It combines the 2.x phone interface with 3.x tablet interface (honeycomb) to create one lethal weapon: A single cookie that runs on Android tablets and smart phones.
I found these really interesting pieces about all you need to know videos on ICS.
In a gist, the key selling points of ICS are:
- Easier and more visual multitasking
- Rich notifications
- Customizable home screens
- Resizable widget
- Deep interactivity
- Added powerful new ways of communicating and sharing
- Unlock the phone via face recognition.
- Data usage analyzer tool.
To me the coolest features on this list are surely the sci fi face recognition unlocking of the phone and data usage tool. The Face Unlock feature is really convenient allowing you to unlock your phone by face recognition. So also is the data usage analyzer. I somehow did get a data usage tool in my gingerbread version on Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc..so I'm doubting if it is indeed unique to ICS!
Re sizable widget is again a big plus. Currently widgets take up a lot of space on the home screen and the home screen sometimes cannot accommodate more than one or two of them, if the widget size is really big like the Facebook widget or Calender.
This feature is not seen on a smartphone for the first time however. I remember seeing this for the first time demoed on a Nokia N9 last year (Secretly I like the fact that Nokia managed one innovation out in time before Android :-))
Re sizable widget is again a big plus. Currently widgets take up a lot of space on the home screen and the home screen sometimes cannot accommodate more than one or two of them, if the widget size is really big like the Facebook widget or Calender.
This feature is not seen on a smartphone for the first time however. I remember seeing this for the first time demoed on a Nokia N9 last year (Secretly I like the fact that Nokia managed one innovation out in time before Android :-))
And since Google has been working closely with Samsung for giving life to these features, you can see all of them running on Samsung Galaxy Nexus phone- the lead phone for ICS.
More recently ICS software push has been promised by several Device manufacturers for a variety of phones. Recently in the news for phones getting ICS were Sony Ericsson Xperia and LG, Motorola Xoom Wi-Fi Tablet , Droid Razr Maxx, Asus Transformer Prime and HTC Primo.
The verge also reports the Sony Tablets S and P getting the ICS treat soon.
So all in all Android the year 2012 seems all about ICS devices in the Android arena.
I hope it evokes a better response than the lukewarm ones obtained for Honeycomb...
I might write another post to put my wish list of features for the next android release!
Watch this space for more!
More recently ICS software push has been promised by several Device manufacturers for a variety of phones. Recently in the news for phones getting ICS were Sony Ericsson Xperia and LG, Motorola Xoom Wi-Fi Tablet , Droid Razr Maxx, Asus Transformer Prime and HTC Primo.
The verge also reports the Sony Tablets S and P getting the ICS treat soon.
So all in all Android the year 2012 seems all about ICS devices in the Android arena.
I hope it evokes a better response than the lukewarm ones obtained for Honeycomb...
I might write another post to put my wish list of features for the next android release!
Watch this space for more!
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