When it comes to the tablet version of ICS, what are the pending benefits? It just seems like there's some new fonts and some gestures, but other than that it's pretty much like Honeycomb. Are they promising performance increases? Better touch responsiveness?
What's the big deal?
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I think there is a huge benefit to bringing consistency and a unified experience between android tablets and android phones for both users and developers. So in the end, while ICS is only an incremental improvement over Honeycomb for tablets, it's in my opinion a huge improvement over Gingerbread in phones and beneficial to the android ecosystem as a whole. Of course manufacturer skins could screw it all up.
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I use a HP Touchpad and was using CM7 for a while, but recently got ICS on it, makes it significant improvement over performance. Honeycomb was like an intermediate version OS anyways and the reason why google did not release source code for it. I have heard people tell that Honeycomb was buggy and slow, and ICS has improved the performance tremendously.
I can notice better response, and most certainly a better experience on my Touchpad!
I can notice better response, and most certainly a better experience on my Touchpad!
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From all the Transformer Prime videos I have seen, even with a Tegra 3, as far as overlall OS optimization and performance, it doesn't seem to differ much from my Transformer in that regard. Certain applications like Tegra 3 optimized games like Shadow Gun for instance obviously perform betteron the TP but that's down to the SOC and not ICS. As far as the OS is concerned with regards to performance that is not hardware accelerated, I think on devices like the original Transformer, I doubt we are going yo see a whole lot of improvement from Honeycomb.
I am thinking of selling Transformer and waiting for the Windows 8 tablets to be released. Android in tablet form is just not as efficient at getting real work done as I would like. The web on it is still clunkier then I would like, my iPad 2 is not much better, I just want Windows in a tablet form factor minus all of Windows resource hog nature and tendencies since Windows 8 tablet hardware is not up to a desktop level.
I am thinking of selling Transformer and waiting for the Windows 8 tablets to be released. Android in tablet form is just not as efficient at getting real work done as I would like. The web on it is still clunkier then I would like, my iPad 2 is not much better, I just want Windows in a tablet form factor minus all of Windows resource hog nature and tendencies since Windows 8 tablet hardware is not up to a desktop level.
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I have found that ICS has made my Xoom WiFi a much better tablet. Runs faster and smoother and looks great.
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So having used ICS on my xoom for a few weeks I can say.. "the deal is big". I agree with you that the changes Google has made are small incremental changes but I'd add that there are enough small changes in the right places that it makes a major diffence. Swipe on the task manager, swipe to get rid of notifications... huge usability boosts! A developer switch to enable hardware acceleration system wide.. that even helps my apps work better. even the system font is much easier and prettier on my eyes. My number one complaint coming from iPhone to android has been that it lacked polish. so I've always rooted and run custom roms with themes. While my xoom is still rooted, it's running a stock ICS with no themes and I like it!
Without your hands on it, the differences will seem very minimal, however using it, it's definitely an improvement.
Without your hands on it, the differences will seem very minimal, however using it, it's definitely an improvement.
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