Android 4.0 is here

[rlvl]

Well guys, talk about the features!

1. Android Beam. Its Bump + much more.
2. Camera. Many would say about time, I am more like Thank-god.
3. The UI. The phone app looks slick, the notifications slicker and the new Roboto font slickest.

Do read my full view on my website

[Jay]

Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich now official

Lock-screen
The new lock-screen featuring the time, date, day, battery life, and animated "flourish" to unlock the phone. As we speculated before, ICS will feature a facial recognition unlocker, which will use your face to unlock the device. In case that doesn't work (which it didn't in the demo), you still have the pattern-unlocker like you're already used to.


Homescreen, Launcher
Your homescreen is "your space". You can scroll around, gesturing left and right to flip between related screens.Widgets now are scrollable and resizable.
Apps and widgets can be easily are easily added by dragging and dropping (like we've seen in Honeycomb and the Droid Bionic).
Live wallpapers have been optimized. Boring button presses" have been replaced with gestures.Folders can be created easily by simply dropping icons on top of each other.
Your "Favorites tray" can now contain folders and apps, as well as direct-dial contacts.
The task manager looks like the Honeycomb switcher, but features the ability to "flick" the app away to remove it from the list by sliding an app to the right.Pressing the power and volume-down buttons will capture a screen shot, complete with a Polaroid-style preview.
Like running tasks, notifications can be "flicked" away and are now faster than ever before. They can even be "peaked at" from the lock-screen where the notification shade can be pulled down and apps launched -- without "sliding to unlock" first.Your apps drawer now features left and right paginated swiping, no more endless up/down scrolling as in Gingerbread and earlier versions of Android.

Keyboard
Error correction has been improved and the suggestion strip made bigger and easier. Cut/copy/paste has been GREATLY improved. ICS improves the microphone "talk to type" by making it instant, so words appear as you "type" with your voice -- including punctuation and emoticons.
Browser
The Browser now has a much better way to access your tabs and an easy way to "request desktop version" pages which default to a "mobile view" so you can get the full version of the site easily.Your bookmarks are also synced with your desktop browser.Incognito mode has now officially arrived for more privacy while surfing.
Gmail
Two-line message previews.Off-line search allows you to search the last 30 days of messages by default, but it's configurable to any amount of time you want. Right to left swiping is now featured as an easy way to navigate through conversations.
Calendar
The updated Calendar app features pinch-to-zoom in and out at your daily events, giving you more detail as you zoom in, and less detail as you zoom out.
Data Usage
Data usage is a big concern with data caps, throttling, and overages.ICS now brings a way to look inside your data usage by showing your past usage and forecasting future usage.
Camera and Photos
Picture-taking is now instantaneous with zero shutter-lag. You can literally take pictures as fast as you can tap the shutter button.The new Gallery app features new image editing tools and uses the new "Magazine Layout" common in ICS to beautifully display your images.The built-in camera app now has a panorama mode that's ridiculously easy to use.


Video
Shooting video on the Galaxy Nexus is now 1080p HD using the stock camer app and features automatic focus, time-lapse, low-light capabilities, and even "tap-to-snap" still shots while you're shooting video.
People, Calls, and Dialer
What was "Contacts" is now "People". The "People Card" now features a high-quality picture at the top, all your "connections" with that person (SMS, Google Talk, Gmail, Twitter, Facebook, and any other app that plugs in via the API), along with all the recent posts from that person (which sounds an awful lot like Windows Phone 7).Swiping right in the dialer will bring up your favorites.Visual voicemail is now included right in the recent calls list where they should be -- yes, that includes messages left on Google Voice.Listening to long-winded voice messages doesn't have to be a pain any more, they can be sped up while they're playing, cutting the playback time dramatically.


Android Beam
Using ICS and NFC you can now share any contact (any content really) between Android-devices via NFC by simply touching the devices together and tapping the screen of the device to send from one phone to the other (no third-party or "Bumping" required).
SDK
The Android ICS SDK is available right now at Android.com, so developers can get started taking advantages of all of ICS' new features (including the Galaxy Nexus' built-in barometer) right away!


Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich Has Hardware Acceleration (Finally!!!!)

[Akinaro]

Lock-screen

you wake up after party (+200 to face morphing) and... you can't call to work that you late.

[stojshic]

Can't wait for it to come to Nexus S... Probably not 'till the end of the year, but, it looks like it will be worth waiting....

[vkmaxx]

Maybe some 4.0 libs can be ported to Spica like Samdroid Turbo @ 2.1?

[sunbeam96]

Maybe some 4.0 libs can be ported to Spica like Samdroid Turbo @ 2.1?

Why ported? We just have to wait for CM9 so we can see how much job is it to get a working Ice Cream Sandwich.

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[eggbloke]

4.0 isn't open source yet. No hope of any ports until they open up the source code.

[mittals888]

4.0 isn't open source yet. No hope of any ports until they open up the source code.

My friend you myt want to check out what a developer did to his N1 with ICS SDK port. Head to YouTube and search the tags N1 Icecream sandwich.

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[sunbeam96]

Don't worry. Google's gonna open ICS's code pretty fast.

[HTD]

My friend you myt want to check out what a developer did to his N1 with ICS SDK port. Head to YouTube and search the tags N1 Icecream sandwich.

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Holy impressive work Batman!

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