Comments on: Android 4.0 ICS demo: Facial Recognition, Battery Life, GPU Rendering, and more

By: MV

MV — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 02:17:00 +0000

I want to know how well the facial recognition works in a room thats dark….How well does it work if you wake up in the middle of the night and need to check your phone?

By: Gogopats

Gogopats — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 23:22:00 +0000

What search key are you talking about? Apps have their own search key in their menus if they even have one?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 22:10:00 +0000

That battery life is horrendous.

By: Giest

Giest — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 13:32:00 +0000

Eυχαριστο

By: bndctc

bndctc — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 18:38:00 +0000

Great introduction to ICS’s new features.

By: shriod griffin

shriod griffin — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 09:45:00 +0000

This guy does the worst job ever!!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 01:27:00 +0000

Those pics look awful

By: Dylan Blom

Dylan Blom — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 23:40:00 +0000

this has a removable battery

By: Michael Rodriguez

Michael Rodriguez — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 19:17:00 +0000

Its has side volume rocker

By: Birdnest NYC

Birdnest NYC — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 18:21:00 +0000

Without side button, how do you reboot if the phone is stuck? I reboot the Xoom tablet with power button and the up sound button.

BirdsnestNYC

By: jhoravi2004

jhoravi2004 — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 15:35:00 +0000

But what about other applications that need the search key? I don’t wanna stretch my thumb to the top just for that.

By: Sameer Ramesh

Sameer Ramesh — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 15:08:00 +0000

In your homescreen, you’ll find the search widget PERMANANTELY on top.

By: Connectwithraj

Connectwithraj — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 13:57:00 +0000

Swiping off works in recent apps to close appps. You donot have to press and hold to close.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 09:56:00 +0000

I am not sure about how image stabilization works in cell phones. Is that software stabilization or done through lens or sensor? Many simply use software/digital image stabilization. I am not sure if there are any mobile camera with OIS.

By: jhoravi2004

jhoravi2004 — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 09:53:00 +0000

Where is the Search key that brings the virtual keyboard?? Have you tried long pressing all they control keys to see if it has other functions like search?

By: Domenico Casillo

Domenico Casillo — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 09:33:00 +0000

You can turn this option off, effectively, by heading to your Settings, then to your Developers options, then scrolling down and tapping the “Force GPU Rendering” option.
The GPU rendering is by default active in ICS and cannot be disabled. All apps that are developed for ICS has hardware acceleration by default. However, apps that are made for GB won’t. That’s why there is a “force GPU rendering” options: this forces “old” apps, to be rendered trough GPU istead of CPU.If you disable Force GPU Rendering you are NOT disabling the GPU rendering in the whole OS, but you’re just not forcing old apps to be rendered trough GPU. In other words, they run as on Gingerbread.

By: Vincent Nguyen

Vincent Nguyen — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 06:46:00 +0000

@alex typo, corrected. Thanks for pointing it out.

By: Mauricio Fortuna

Mauricio Fortuna — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 06:29:00 +0000

You can also swipe off an app.

By: Alex Schechter

Alex Schechter — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 05:55:00 +0000

right full hours?