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Googles out with Android 4.0, a.k.a. Ice Cream Sandwich. Sounds delicious, but what exactly is it?
Its a mobile platform...
Ice Cream Sandwich continues Googles tradition of alphabetical dessert naming. Froyo begat Gingerbread, Gingerbread begat Honeycomb, and together, Gingerbread and Honeycomb begat Ice Cream Sandwich. If you bought a high-end phone recently you will almost certainly be upgraded to Ice Cream Sandwich, and upcoming high-end devices will have it preloaded.
...with a very different look...
For anyone who has used an Android phone, this is a pretty different look. It still has that famously customizable desktop, but it doesnt move in the same way. Open the app drawer and you scroll from side to side, not up and down as on Android 2.x. You have four customizable icons on your homescreen dock, and everything is just much smoother.
...and no hardware buttons.
Anything you want to do, you do with dynamic buttons on the screen; they reorient themselves depending on how your phone is tilted. Users can access each applications contextual options in the Action Bar (borrowed from Honeycomb) which is usually displayed at the top of the screen. This replaces Androids Menu and Search buttons entirely, but theres now a Recent Apps button for multitasking.
It has a fancy new Typeface...
Androids new and better-looking native font is called Roboto. Its designed for a very-pixel dense screen but doesnt try to look like something youd find in an old book. Its pretty slick.
...and is better at keeping you connected...
All of the core Android apps have been revamped. The Contacts app is now called People, and its much more fluid and intelligent, pulling information from more sources and integrating photos and social media. Its similar to the look of Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango), which is a good thing. Gmail has been vastly improved with off-line reading/search, swiping gestures to make scrolling through easier, and more intuitive addressing. The calendar lets you pinch-to-zoom—so you to start in a pulled-out view of your whole week and then fluidly zoom in on a particular appointment.
...and has a desktop class browser.
You can have up to 16 tabs open at once. One of the annoyances of previous versions of Android was that they forced you view the mobile version of some sites even when you didnt want to (especially if you were on a tablet). In Ice Cream Sandwich you can flip to desktop mode with a single button-press and view the full page. At long last bookmarks can be synced with your Chrome web browser, and you can now save a page for offline reading, which is a great feature for travelers. They also promise greatly improved browser speeds over Android 2.3.
It has improved notifications and multitasking...
You know what I hate about Gingerbread and Honeycomb? Theres no simple way to close apps. They just keep running in the background and slowing down your system. With Ice Cream Sandwich, you can just open the visually-improved multi-tasking interface and simply swipe away apps you dont want to use. You can do the same to dismiss notifications, which now display more information and are vastly more customizable. You can even get them to display right on the lock screen. iOS borrowed notifications from Android and improved on them, now Android has borrowed those improvements. Ah, the circle of life.
... and gives you more control over your system ...
Beginning with Android 4.0, users can uninstall any application they want, even if they are native to Android. (If you love Opera Mini and hate Androids web browser, you can banish it.) Hopefully that includes the F#$%ing bloatware from carriers and manufacturers. We love this move. It also gives you improved monitoring of and control over your data usage. There is a built-in app that lets you analyze your data usage and even impose limitations on apps (such as how much data they can pull down in the background). You can also have it set an alarm if youre nearing your monthly data cap. This is a big plus as unlimited plans go the way of the dodo.
...and has NFC radio goodness.
Ice Cream Sandwich has a built-in support for near field communication (NFC) radios. This will play a large role in the burgeoning mobile payments space (like Google Wallet), but it can also be used for more commonplace jobs. The new Android Beam feature allows users to share information by touching their phones together, but its not limited to contact info. If you have a map open on your phone, you can tap it on your friends phone and the map will automatically open for him/her as well. It works with games and other things, too. The APIs are out there, so developers will likely make a lot of magic with it.
It also looks beautiful ...
Even the most die-hard of Android users will probably admit that Android has never been beautiful. Maaaybe if you really loved Tron you thought Honeycomb was, but you were a small minority. Something is different here. They have actually given a ton of thought to design, and it really shows. Applications are not only more consistent in their look (so far), but they are way easier on the eyes. Also 1280x720 pixels (which is a 16:9 radio) is the native resolution of Ice Cream Sandwich, which means this OS was made for HD. Not an approximation of HD, but real HD.
...and it merges the phone and tablet operating systems.
They didnt say this at the official announcement in Hong Kong, but Ice Cream Sandwich was designed to merge Androids phone OS (2.x, Gingerbread, Froyo, etc.) with Androids tablet OS (Android 3.x, Honeycomb). It looks much more like an improved Honeycomb than anything else, so while there was no announcement tonight that said it would be coming soon to tablets, we know that thats why Ice Cream Sandwich was created. Its a sandwich, which by definition brings things together to make something new and better. Were 99.99-percent sure well be seeing a manufacturer (likely Motorola with its rumored Xoom 2) announce ICS on a tablet in the very, very near future. Update: The Android developer page has a ton of info about Android 4.0 and there is repeated mention of tablets, devices with difference screen sizes, and "more" (which Im hoping means Google TV).
Other tidbits...
There are more bells and whistles than we could possibly get to, but highlights include built-in screen capturing throughout the OS. The notification panel has built-in music player controls. They keyboard has improved accuracy, better predictive text, and an inline spell-checker. Improved voice recognition, too, which Id like to see in a head-to-head contest with iOSs Siri. Oh, and you can supposedly unlock your phone with your face. Yep, your face, using facial recognition on the front-facing camera (though we have yet to see that actually work). You can also warp your face in realtime while video chatting.
More? Okay. Even the blind can use it! It has a new "Explore-by-touch" mode that lets users navigate without having to see the screen. ICS will gives those users audible feedback and even reads webpages to them. Thats pretty impressive. It also has some beefy lock-screen controls that will let you manage notifications, control music, or shortcut you right into the app of your choice. A new visual voicemail app integrates messages and voice transcriptions and can integrate with third-party applications (coughGoogleVoice?cough). And you can snap a photo while shooting video.
Theres simply a ton in here, and its almost certainly Androids most significant upgrade to date.
Youre caught up on Ice Cream Sandwich!. Now you can check out whats going on with the first phone that has it, Samsungs Galaxy Nexus.
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Cell Phone Tech News 2012 update HTC One X review news on Google Android Smartphone Auckland David Lim
HTC One X official photos
Key features
- Quad-band GSM and dual-band 3G support
- 21 Mbps HSDPA and 5.76 Mbps HSUPA
- 4.7" 16M-color Super LCD 2 capacitive touchscreen of HD resolution (720 x 1280 pixels); Gorilla glass
- Android 4.0.3 Ice Cream Sandwich with latest HTC Sense 4.0
- 1.5 GHz quad-core Cortex-A9 CPUs, low-power companion core, ULP GeForce 2 GPU, Nvidia Tegra 3 chipset
- 1 GB of RAM and 32 GB of storage
- 8 MP autofocus camera with LED flash; face detection and geotagging
- 1080p and 720p video recording @ 30fps with stereo sound
- 720p front-facing camera for video-chat
- Wi-Fi b/g/n and DLNA
- GPS with A-GPS
- Stereo FM radio with RDS
- Accelerometer, proximity sensor and auto-brightness sensor
- Standard 3.5 mm audio jack
- microUSB port (charging) and stereo Bluetooth v4.0
- MHL TV-out (requires MHL-to-HDMI adapter)
- Smart dialing, voice dialing
- DivX/XviD video support
- HTC Locations app
- HTCSense.com integration
- HTC Portable Hotspot
- Office document editor
- Beats audio enhancements
Main disadvantages
- No microSD card slot, no alternative options in terms of storage
- MicroSIM support only
- No dedicated camera key
- Non-user-accessible battery
- Uninspiring image and video quality, video framing is tricky
HTC One X live shots
The retail package is pretty modest
HTC One X 360-degree spin
The HTC One X sized up against the Samsung Galaxy Nexus and the HTC One S
Design and construction
The HD Super LCD2 is gorgeous to behold
| Display test | 50% brightness | 100% brightness | ||||
| Black, cd/m2 | White, cd/m2 | Contrast ratio | Black, cd/m2 | White, cd/m2 | Contrast ratio | |
| HTC One X | 0.15 | 200 | 1375 | 0.39 | 550 | 1410 |
| Samsung Galaxy Nexus | 0 | 112 | ∞ | 0 | 247 | ∞ |
| Motorola RAZR XT910 | 0 | 215 | ∞ | 0 | 361 | ∞ |
| Samsung I9100 Galaxy S II | 0 | 231 | ∞ | 0 | 362 | ∞ |
| HTC One S | 0 | 177 | ∞ | 0 | 386 | ∞ |
| Samsung Galaxy Note | 0 | 287 | ∞ | 0 | 429 | ∞ |
| HTC Sensation XE | 0.23 | 172 | 761 | 0.64 | 484 | 752 |
| Sony Xperia S | - | - | - | 0.48 | 495 | 1038 |
The 720p camera at the front enables video-chatting
There are three capacitive buttons underneath the screen
The MHL-enabled microUSB port is on the left
The volume rocker is placed on the left side
The power button, the 3.5 mm audio jack and the microSIM slot are on top
The second microphone pinhole is all you get at the bottom
The 8 megapixel camera is joined by the LED flash and the loudspeaker grille at the back
Sense 4.0 on top of Android 4.0 ICS just makes sense
The new lockscreen is brilliant
The two new preloaded lockscreens
Some of the homescreen sections
Leap View lets you quickly rearrange homescreen panes
Preset scenes • The scenes in action
The new app drawer
The Personalize menu does Sound too
Adding a widget to the homescreen
Dragging a widget gives you options
The notification area has been significantly de-cluttered
HTCs task switcher and task manager
Synthetic benchmarks
Benchmark Pi
Lower is better- Sort by Label
- Sort by Value
- HTC One X338
- HTC One S306
- Samsung Galaxy S II452
- Samsung Galaxy Nexus408
- HTC Sensation XE536
- Sony Xperia S536
- Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1351
Linpack
Higher is better- Sort by Label
- Sort by Value
- HTC One X126.1
- HTC One S210
- Samsung Galaxy S II77.6
- Samsung Galaxy Nexus77.1
- HTC Sensation XE50.4
- Sony Xperia S86.4
- Samsung Galaxy Note 10.190
NenaMark 2
Higher is better- Sort by Label
- Sort by Value
- HTC One X47.5
- HTC One S60.5
- Samsung Galaxy S II51.6
- Samsung Galaxy Nexus24
- HTC Sensation XE23
- Sony Xperia S37.5
- Samsung Galaxy Note 10.143.6
SunSpider
Lower is better- Sort by Label
- Sort by Value
- HTC One X1757
- HTC One S1708
- Samsung Galaxy S II1849
- Samsung Galaxy Nexus1863
- HTC Sensation XE4404
- Sony Xperia S2587
- Samsung Galaxy Note 10.11891
- Apple iPhone 4S2217
BrowserMark
Higher is better- Sort by Label
- Sort by Value
- HTC One X96803
- HTC One S98435
- Samsung Galaxy S II111853
- Samsung Galaxy Nexus103591
- HTC Sensation XE72498
- Sony Xperia S74990
- Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1113256
- Apple iPhone 4S88725
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