Google's out with Android 4.0, a.k.a. Ice Cream Sandwich. Sounds delicious, but what absolutely is it?
It's a adaptable platform...Ice Cream Sandwich continues Google's attitude of alphabetical ambrosia naming. Froyo begat Gingerbread, Gingerbread begat Honeycomb, and together, Gingerbread and Honeycomb begat Ice Cream Sandwich. If you bought a high-end buzz afresh you will about absolutely be upgraded to Ice Cream Sandwich, and accessible high-end accessories will accept it preloaded.
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For anyone who has acclimated an Android phone, this is a appealing altered look. It still has that abundantly customizable desktop, but it doesn't move in the aforementioned way. Accessible the app drawer and you annal from ancillary to side, not up and down as on Android 2.x. You accept four customizable icons on your homescreen dock, and aggregate is just abundant smoother.
...and no accouterments buttons.Anything you wish to do, you do with activating buttons on the screen; they reorient themselves depending on how your buzz is tilted. Users can admission anniversary application's contextual options in the Action Bar (borrowed from Honeycomb) which is usually displayed at the top of the screen. This replaces Android's Menu and Search buttons entirely, but there's now a Recent Apps button for multitasking.
It has a adorned new Typeface...Android's new and better-looking congenital chantry is alleged Roboto. It's advised for a very-pixel abutting awning but doesn't try to attending like something you'd acquisition in an old book. It's appealing slick.
...and is bigger at befitting you connected...
All of the amount Android apps accept been revamped. The Contacts app is now alleged People, and it's abundant added aqueous and intelligent, affairs advice from added sources and amalgam photos and amusing media. It's agnate to the attending of Windows Buzz 7.5 (Mango), which is a acceptable thing. Gmail has been awfully bigger with off-line reading/search, annexation gestures to accomplish scrolling through easier, and added automatic addressing. The agenda lets you pinch-to-zoom—so you to alpha in a pulled-out appearance of your accomplished anniversary and again fluidly zoom in on a accurate appointment.
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...and has a desktop chic browser.You can accept up to 16 tabs accessible at once. One of the annoyances of antecedent versions of Android was that they affected you appearance the adaptable adaptation of some sites even if you didn't wish to (especially if you were on a tablet). In Ice Cream Sandwich you can cast to desktop approach with a individual button-press and appearance the abounding page. At continued endure bookmarks can be synced with your Chrome web browser, and you can now save a page for offline reading, which is a abundant affection for travelers. They aswell affiance abundantly bigger browser speeds over Android 2.3.
You apperceive what I abhorrence about Gingerbread and Honeycomb? There's no simple way to abutting apps. They just accumulate active in the accomplishments and slowing down your system. With Ice Cream Sandwich, you can just accessible the visually-improved multi-tasking interface and artlessly bash abroad apps you don't wish to use. You can do the aforementioned to abolish notifications, which now affectation added advice and are awfully added customizable. You can even get them to affectation appropriate on the lock screen. iOS adopted notifications from Android and bigger on them, now Android has adopted those improvements. Ah, the amphitheater of life.
... and gives you added ascendancy over your arrangement ...Beginning with Android 4.0, users can uninstall any appliance they want, even if they are congenital to Android. (If you adulation Opera Mini and abhorrence Android's web browser, you can banish it.) Hopefully that includes the F#$%ing bloatware from carriers and manufacturers. We adulation this move. It aswell gives you bigger ecology of and ascendancy over your abstracts usage. There is a congenital app that lets you assay your abstracts acceptance and even appoint limitations on apps (such as how abundant abstracts they can cull down in the background). You can aswell accept it set an anxiety if you're advancing your account abstracts cap. This is a big additional as absolute affairs go the way of the dodo.
...and has NFC radio goodness.Ice Cream Sandwich has a congenital abutment for abreast acreage advice (NFC) radios. This will play a ample role in the beginning adaptable payments amplitude (like Google Wallet), but it can aswell be acclimated for added commonplace jobs. The new Android Beam affection allows users to allotment advice by affecting their phones together, but it's not bound to acquaintance info. If you accept a map accessible on your phone, you can tap it on your friend's buzz and the map will automatically accessible for him/her as well. It works with amateur and added things, too. The APIs are out there, so developers will acceptable accomplish a lot of abracadabra with it.
Even the a lot of die-hard of Android users will apparently accept that Android has never been beautiful. Maaaybe if you absolutely admired Tron you anticipation Honeycomb was, but you were a baby minority. Something is altered here. They accept in fact accustomed a ton of anticipation to design, and it absolutely shows. Applications are not alone added constant in their attending (so far), but they are way easier on the eyes. Aswell 1280x720 pixels (which is a 16:9 radio) is the congenital resolution of Ice Cream Sandwich, which agency this OS was fabricated for HD. Not an approximation of HD, but absolute HD.
...and it merges the buzz and book operating systems.They didn't say this at the official advertisement in Hong Kong, but Ice Cream Sandwich was advised to absorb Android's buzz OS (2.x, Gingerbread, Froyo, etc.) with Android's book OS (Android 3.x, Honeycomb). It looks abundant added like an bigger Honeycomb than annihilation else, so while there was no advertisement tonight that said it would be advancing anon to tablets, we apperceive that that's why Ice Cream Sandwich was created. It's a sandwich, which by analogue brings things calm to accomplish something new and better. We're 99.99-percent abiding we'll be seeing a architect (likely Motorola with its accounted Xoom 2) advertise ICS on a book in the very, actual abreast future. Update: The Android developer page has a ton of advice about Android 4.0 and there is again acknowledgment of tablets, accessories with aberration awning sizes, and "more" (which I'm acquisitive agency Google TV).
There are added accretion and whistles than we could possibly get to, but highlights cover congenital awning capturing throughout the OS. The notification console has congenital music amateur controls. They keyboard has bigger accuracy, bigger predictive text, and an inline spell-checker. Bigger articulation recognition, too, which I'd like to see in a head-to-head challenge with iOS's Siri. Oh, and you can allegedly unlock your buzz with your face. Yep, your face, application facial acceptance on the front-facing camera (though we accept yet to see that in fact work). You can aswell bastardize your face in realtime while video chatting.
More? Okay. Even the dark can use it! It has a new "Explore-by-touch" approach that lets users cross after accepting to see the screen. ICS will gives those users aural acknowledgment and even reads webpages to them. That's appealing impressive. It aswell has some able-bodied lock-screen controls that will let you administer notifications, ascendancy music, or adjustment you appropriate into the app of your choice. A new beheld voicemail app integrates letters and articulation transcriptions and can accommodate with third-party applications (coughGoogleVoice?cough). And you can breeze a photo while cutting video.
There's artlessly a ton in here, and it's about absolutely Android's a lot of cogent advancement to date.
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