Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Transformer Prime Gets Android 4.0 ICS!”.
Hey what’s up guys marquez from mkbhd here and today we are back with android 4.0 already available on our asus transformer prime. The tablet that we love so much and has the tegra 3 quad core processor a little bit surprising that it’s here before uh, the beloved motorola zoom uh, google’s very own, the first honeycomb tablet. So without any further ado, let’s go ahead and take a look at the interface. The experience the new features and just how much faster ics makes this tablet make sure you give a thumbs up on this video for the quad core, android goodness, and also it really does help out a lot thanks for watching. Let’S go alright, so welcome to tablet view and of course, the first thing we can take. A look at an ice cream sandwich is the beautiful, lock screen which, as we saw on the galaxy nexus, has direct access to the camera software, and this is the updated camera software, as we can see in ice cream sandwich. We have these beautiful new menus here and uh. We also from the lock screen can just unlock you can see. Here we have the new pagination icons up top and ice cream sandwich is looking beautiful and smooth, as ever in order to see what version of ice cream sandwich you have. You can go to these settings here and if we scroll down to about tablet, we are running android 4.0.3.
So if we can tap that a whole bunch of times, i think we can activate the easter egg, maybe yeah. This is the uh, the beautiful ice cream sandwich, nyan cat. We saw on the galaxy nexus. I don’t know why that’s so entertaining to me, but anyway um. In order to get this stock ice cream sandwich settings, you can go into your settings and go to asus customize setting and uncheck. This is the uh the stock settings we had before it’s a little bit ugly, in my opinion, so i unchecked it and now we have the stock ice cream sandwich settings which i think is beautiful, and that brings us back here to uh the fonts.
We see everywhere and that’s roboto. Of course, the the font that’s introduced and we see on the nexus is back here in this and it’s looking beautiful as ever with roboto. Now the responsiveness, as we saw here, is also very much uh.
Still amazing performance is improved with the multitasking, see how fast that is right when i tap that boom multitasking just comes up instantly and we can actually swipe off apps to kill them and that actually kills the application. So let’s say i have calendar open here and i go back home and i open up calendar. It’S immediately right. There now i’ll go ahead and kill the calendar and open up again you’ll see it has to reload the whole calendar. So now we have true multitasking here with android 4.0.3, and that is beautiful. We also have the new app drawer up here, so we can see that nice little swipe animation as they fade in, which is also again started on the nexus, and we can swipe over here to widgets, and now we have all our widgets here that we can Add to our home screens.
This is all very, very smooth and easy, we’ll go ahead and add our power control widget over here on this home screen, as you can see, goes up just like that and uh. You know all the functionality still has that cyan color, which is nice and beautiful. Also it has a new ability to add folders. So, as you can see here, i have two different apps next to each other. If they’re outside of our folder, i can drag it on top and they create a new folder that we can name i’ll name it cam like i had before, and i have a new google folder, which actually has a couple of the updated ice cream sandwich. Apps. Yes, gmail was updated for ics, so it looks all pretty now very, very, very professional looking. Actually, we also have a brand new gallery and that pulls down all our photos from google plus, of course, so it looks, looks good and of course we have a good wi-fi connection.
It’Ll, look really good, so there you go and we actually do have the new people app now and it looks like tablet optimized. So that’s good that we have all our different uh people in there. You won’t be seeing that phone number. Will you but yeah.
You can see. Uh performance is very much still extremely fast on the galaxy nexus. I did try quadrant, but of course it’s not ice cream sandwich optimized. Yet so that’s not really a big deal but yeah.
Let me guys know what you guys think of ice cream sandwich in the comments down below. I think it’s a great upgrade. I was personally excited to see this on friday, but thank gosh, it’s finally here so yeah. This is looking really good. I’M excited to keep using this and you’ll see a review of the transformer prime pretty soon as i get used to it.
The battery life, just so you know so far, has been outstanding. Absolutely phenomenal. Either way, thanks for watching and i’ll talk to you guys in the next article, peace, hey, what’s up guys mkbhd here and today we’re taking a look at android 4.0 on the ace, probably not a good idea, delete .