Comments on: Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich complete guide

By: Spirittamer

Spirittamer — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 15:39:00 +0000

having upgraded my nexus s (uk) to ics I can confirm that the four soft buttons remain. recent apps used is gained by holding home button.

By: Stephen Williamson

Stephen Williamson — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 07:53:00 +0000

when they first talked about ice cream sandwich just after honeycomb was released it was meanted that the phone manufactures could turn off or on the onscreen controls. Assuming they turn them off will jsut means the current hardware keys will act as they currently do.

By: Stephen Williamson

Stephen Williamson — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 07:46:00 +0000

what do you want… gradients and a wood effect?

By: R_solopotias

R_solopotias — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 08:41:00 +0000

from what i’ve herd the nexus s will be one of the first phones to recieve the update.

By: Mark Lee

Mark Lee — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 06:04:00 +0000

can anyone tell me if ice cream sandwich is subject to patent fee? do htc and samsung have to pay for producing ics phone?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 14:54:00 +0000

Yea Yea all this but i bet i still cant search my exchange email from the phone with out an over priced App … Google you failed me ….This is why i have to buy HTC Phones or go back to the Iphone….

No inbox search in exchange email is just a joke…

By: Firas Kordi

Firas Kordi — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 10:02:00 +0000

guys will this uptade come to Google nexus S (can i uptade it on my google nexus S) ?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 01:43:00 +0000

Depends how its ported when source is released.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 01:42:00 +0000

Capacitive buttons disabled/switched off, virtual buttons are on-screen.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 01:39:00 +0000

3 squares in a line.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 01:38:00 +0000

Wait for MIUI to have their hands on the ICS source

By: Chris Burns

Chris Burns — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 01:07:00 +0000

They must have forgotten to ask you.

By: Terris Linenbach

Terris Linenbach — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 02:17:00 +0000

Did a 2 year old design those three icons at the bottom?

By: spikkel

spikkel — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 17:44:00 +0000

Ideally this should be a user configured option for existing phones.
That way, should a button on your phone fail you don’t have to ditch it / spring for repairs immediately.

By: guest

guest — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 17:39:00 +0000

I have the TF 1, and it’s already a viable laptop replacement. I use it for sales presentations, taking notes, etc. and it always draws attention. I use it as is, and sometimes plug my MX Performance mouse into the USB port, and it pretty much turns into a laptop. It’s quick, I’ve expanded the memory with a pair of memory cards, it streams content, backs everything up to unlimited cloud storage….

I’ve dialed down the screen brightness to about 30%, and it gets phenomenal battery life. It gets used every day, and I think my best week, I got 21 hours use off one charge of the dock + tablet.

Definitely getting my use out of it.

I get much more use out of my Transformer at work than my coworkers do out of their iPad 2′s.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 06:25:00 +0000

Netbooks are small, light, can easily run for hours, and are cheap but still cover all the computing basics the average person could need on the go.

Basically, not everyone needs or can necessarily afford anything more powerful than a netbook. While there are also people who just want a secondary computer or something they can more easily risk damaging or losing or just to experiment with.

Then there are those who just want something they can feel free to completely customize as they want. Such as linux users and hobbyists. Many early netbooks for example have been re-purposed into things like car computers, kitchen cabinet computers, home made tablets, etc. or used for things like setting up ham radio based networks or even robotics.

So take your pick, there are many reasons to use a netbook. Those reasons may not fit your social circle but they do fit others.

By: Theunilife

Theunilife — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 04:57:00 +0000

It will probably do as honeycomb does and add a menu button to the bottom bar.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 04:04:00 +0000

Well, if one long presses the home button of an Android phone it brings up the “Recent Apps” list. Perhaps, this will be replaced with the multitasker when using ICS.

By: Katherine Luding

Katherine Luding — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 02:54:00 +0000

Is the look of the SYSTEM BAR buttons changeable (maybe change themes)? I really don’t like the way those 3 buttons look, although I do like the back/home/prev app options.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 02:43:00 +0000

And a macbook air is a mac.

By: Liaw Kim Poh

Liaw Kim Poh — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 02:18:00 +0000

that will depends on what kind of software you need. I would love a dual boot Android + Windows combo

By: Lon Grove

Lon Grove — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 02:04:00 +0000

Because I’ve seen dual-core Atom based 10.1-inch netbooks w/250GB hdd’s and 8 hour batteries selling for as low as $199 (refurbed) $239 (new). A new Macbook Air starts at $999.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 01:38:00 +0000

I’d like to see how well the camera app enhancements/improvements work with hardware other than that in the Galaxy Nexus.

By: Chris Burns

Chris Burns — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 00:46:00 +0000

I would guess that this is what’s going to happen – any reason why you think it wouldn’t?

By: Chris Burns

Chris Burns — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 00:45:00 +0000

I don’t know a single person who uses a netbook instead of a tiny laptop ala MacBook Air — why use a netbook?

By: Chris Burns

Chris Burns — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 00:44:00 +0000

The menu goes up to the action bar, just like it does for Honeycomb.

By: Taleim Edwards

Taleim Edwards — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 00:03:00 +0000

I entirely agree. I’ve actually been wondering this myself. I like the big screen on my s2, i don’t want to lose a significant portion of it when i already have physical buttons. This is an issue for 99% of android phones, so i’d hope google has a good solution. I can’t believe no one has mentioned this anywhere else.

By: Jhor Vi

Jhor Vi — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 23:52:00 +0000

I noticed there’s no more menu key. So what will happen to the current apps that require it?

By: Bon K

Bon K — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 23:48:00 +0000

My guess is that the OS would know if the phone has hardware buttons and hide the software buttons if it does or give users the option to hide them. And phone should operate with the buttons just like they have been.

By: John

John — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 23:09:00 +0000

I’m curious about how far advanced Android has gotten. I’m an Android Newbie (recently purchased an older Nexus One) and have seen videos of Honeycomb running on the ASUS Transformer. Loving everything I’m seeing, especially on the Transformer.

I’ve seen external hard drives, microSD cards, etc… all plug in and accepted on Honeycomb. Does anyone else feel that ICS + TF2 is now a viable netbook replacement (or close to it)? Perhaps this question might make a good post for Slashgear…

By: James Beddow

James Beddow — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 22:10:00 +0000

One concern: should any of the current android phones be updated to 4.0, what is going to happen with the ‘system bar’? Because current android phones already have back, search, home and menu buttons, so to have another back and another home icon seems pretty pointless, and a waste of screen space.
Perhaps it could be configured so for existing android phones (with the four buttons) the ‘multitasking’ icon could be triggered by holding menu, or holding back (which would let it work with the 3 button Samsung Galaxy models), and so removing the ‘system bar’?