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what's going on Android lovers this is Clayton young we're coming at you from Android authority calm your number one source for everything Android today we've got a head ad comparison between the Android 4.1 jellybean operating system in the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system the jelly bean being newer and the more developed version of Android coming in on the Nexus 7 and the Galaxy Nexus stock then the Ice Cream Sandwich operating system released some months ago in the winter of 2011-2012 coming on the Galaxy Nexus first and we've got two Galaxy Nexus here to compare these two operating systems on my right I'm running the jellybean AOSP operating system no mods complete Android open source project install and then on the Left I'm running the Ice Cream Sandwich operating system complete factory stock on both so we're just going to compare um you know the UI the speed of each of the browser speed there quadrant tests now both of these phones have the exact same hardware so we've got an even result we're not going to have any hardware accelerated performance so we're just going to go ahead and walk through the differences of each of these operating systems so as you can see we do have our Ice Cream Sandwich on the left and our jelly bean on the right they're basically the same as far as the stock dock bar here the same in the navigation bar as well and then we've got a similar layout on as far as the status bar on top let's go ahead and pull down the status bar on each you can get a feel for the notifications as you can see on the jelly bean operating system the notifications have a nicer UI a more refined look with some nice animations to the left now if you happen to have a notification with say a contact image or something like that if you get a text you'll have your nice image coming up here on the left that's the same on Ice Cream Sandwich but they've dedicated a little more space and a little bit nicer UI on the ice cream no on the jelly bean operating system I'm sorry anyways in the top left we also have our date and time on jelly bean as well as our settings easily accessed with the slider there now our settings are also easily accessed on to the right of the date on the Ice Cream Sandwich operating system now to remove all of your notifications on jellybean you simply tap the little tiered layer thing there and then you tap the X on the Ice Cream Sandwich operating system now what we're going to want to do is go into the settings we'll go ahead and tap these at the same time looks like the jellybean came up faster than the Ice Cream Sandwich operating system so now we'll just walk through the actual things included in the settings here we have our Wi-Fi of course Bluetooth and data usage monitoring on each go ahead and go more again it looks like the jellybean made it there first we have our mobile networks our Android beat'em and NFC on each so both of these do have a native NFC you're going to need a phone with an NFC chip which are going to be seeing a lot of all hardware integration in the newer phones to facilitate that sometimes let's go back looks like maybe the ICS I got that first this time we have our storage options our display our battery and apps now the cool thing with jellybean is uh in the apps we can go ahead and go to any one of our apps that we want we'll do the same on the Ice Cream Sandwich we'll actually go to the same app browser and the cool thing about jellybean is that we can disable the apps from actually producing a notification in our notification bar so if we don't want the apps to give us a notification at all we can just deselect that and turn off notifications for that app it's really helpful for a lot of apps that just have spammy notifications even though Google has now enacted the no longer having ads in the notification bar up there but anyways we'll just go back now continue going through our settings here on our accounts settings on jellybean it is a little different we have our an entire accounts drop down menu here that we are lacking on Ice Cream Sandwich the accounts are accessed through accounts and sync on Ice Cream Sandwich and then we have our Google accounts and we can add any accounts simply by pressing the Add Account now we have similar developer options between jellybean and Ice Cream Sandwich now the cool thing about jellybean is um you at I have to turn the entire developer options list on and we have USB debugging on each 2d hardware acceleration all that stuff go ahead and go back and go to the about phone quickly see we are running 4.1.1 and then we're running 4.0.4 we do have easter eggs on each so there's our easter eggs and we'll go back now another cool implementation of a jelly bean is the framerate running at 60fps at all times so that produces a really nice transition effect now they're both very fast you won't notice any you know difference in transition from just staring at the phone screen our eyes can pick that up that fast but they're both very fast but the jelly bean is running at 60 frames per second all the time it also has a 60 Hertz refresh rate to match the hardware of the Galaxy Nexus device now it also has triple buffering which the phone actually starts buffering and almost predicts which action you will do next depending on where you touch the screen it's kind of guess um you know which action you're going to do next and start actually buffering that before you even follow through now sticking with the homescreen we're going to go ahead and go into the apps now as you can see the jelly bean did make it there a bit quicker than the ICS now we do have the links to the market up in the top right and we'll go ahead and go to the widgets on each we'll grab a widget and add it to the home screen on each of these as you can see on jelly bean the widgets actually interacting with the existing icons whereas it's not here on Ice Cream Sandwich now anyways we do have it dropped down now once we do that we have resizable widgets on ICS but not for all of them but every widget is resizable or practically every widget here on jellybean and going to messaging and will start a new message so you can see the keyboards are almost identical we don't really have much difference in the keyboard once we go ahead and type in the actual messaging here we do have predictions on each we also have our voice search and then our voice detect dictation excuse me on the jelly bean and the ICS now the cool thing is that jellybean OS offers offline voice dictation so you can actually speak into the mic it will know what you're saying and then it'll type it being offline you don't need the mobile network for it to match your voice against the other samples it has in a cloud as you do on ICS you get a better experience with the jellybean OS now anyways in place of the next key we have the return key on jellybean and also regarding messaging we have high resolution contact photos now in Android jellybean so if you can see um just go ahead and scroll down until we meet a contact photo leave that one up here was the only one higher resolution for the contact photo as you guys so we'll go ahead and get into some comparisons such as speed the quadrant in the browser so before we actually get into comparing the speeds and how the hardware interacts with the software of each of these OS is we'll just get into some of the other small but noticeable changes that are available in jellybean such as changes to the Play Store now when you download an app on the Play Store or you update it for that matter you don't have to actually update the entire application say you're downloading a 13 megabytes the original size of the app and then they come out with an update in a few days um you'll only have to download the actual space needed to update the app you don't need to download another 13 megabytes to totally replace the app you just download like say 1 megabyte to actually update the app now that's differed from the Ice Cream Sandwich where you would need to download the entire application we also have a new YouTube functionality and Google Plus so if we go into YouTube so you can see here the Android authority channel has a nice different UI nicer UI and then on the ICS it's the classic YouTube where we a scroll through the favorites activity uploads all that sort of stuff where we can scroll left on the jelly bean and access all of our channels and stuff like that ok so I went ahead and did a SunSpider test on the browsers I'll go ahead and bring the phone's up to the camera so you can see what we got on jellybean we got a score of 1692 milliseconds total for all the processes it ran and then on ICS our score was eighteen hundred eighty milliseconds now be smaller the better so it took less time for the jellybean OS to actually run through all the SunSpider tests such as the 3d tests all the string tests all of the different tests it runs in the SunSpider JavaScript benchmark tests so the browser is optimized in a bit faster on the jellybean operating system than it is on the Ice Cream Sandwich operating system now they're both set up in the same way we have our tabs we can simply add new tabs just like that we just swipe away tabs and again and it will close our browser our app management is the exact same such as the recent apps we bring it up see we have the browser here I'm going to put these three together swipe to get rid of anything either direction all right so we saw that the browser is a milliseconds better and it has a faster rendering speed and stuff so let's actually just test the speed of the UI operating on the phones themselves we'll go ahead and perform a quadrant test on each phone and we'll monitor the frames per second that the animations are running at so let's get this started so we did get our results here for the quadrant test our Galaxy Nexus running jelly bean I got a 2,295 total score than our Galaxy Nexus rocking the ICS got nineteen hundred and thirty two so on jelly bean we did a score higher but that is because of the i/o and the 3d performance we actually got higher CPU speeds and memory speeds on the ICS device anyways we'll go back and speaking of hitting the home button there is the Google malfunction allottee with jellybean which is of course one of the gems of jellybean that ICS is lacking completely there is no comparison here anyway so this is the Google now feature I will go ahead and go to what Google now is it basically shows you traffic cards I can show you your airline flights we're going to have to go ahead and enable the location services to use Google now so we'll go ahead and go into our settings use the GPS satellites in the Google location and now what it actually does is it shows us how many minutes it will take to get to our house to work it'll show us the weather in our area nearby restaurants our airplane itineraries all sorts of great stuff and then we also have the new of voice search integrated which brings us to our next test we're going to go ahead and compare the voice search of ICS to the voice search of jelly bean now we've already established that the jelly bean has offline dictation but we are connected online for maximum search results going to go ahead and hit the mic speak something into it and see which one gets us there faster and which one gets more accurate results now I'm sure a lot of you know jelly bean does have the vastly improved voice search function functionality that has completely devastated Siri you might have seen videos like that but let's go ahead and actually test these two I will go ahead and hit our mics here go to Android Authority comm so we do have the Android Authority comm already opening here on the enhanced Google search but it did get there a little bit faster on the ICS as you can see it is already there on ICS in fact we're on the mobile version of the website for both of these and it took us there very nicely we're going to go ahead and try one more navigate to the seller Idaho Falls Idaho got it and this one got it as well our GPS is disabled but it looks like it is taking us here to the cellar and we have the option to actually navigate right here we can go to the web page but on the navigation here with ICS it is already showing us the route and I live right near this restaurant so it looks like both of these did actually want to navigate us to the cellar so they both are pretty great The Voice search on the ICS is nothing to shake a finger at it is really great it works well under so does the Google Voice search on the jellybean system we'll try one more how tall is the Eiffel Tower Eiffel Tower is 1060 3 feet tall so it looks like the enhanced Google search gave us an aural result and it did show the image here in the nice card form like Google now does and then the ICS did bring up the result we got 1063 feet as our first result on the Google search so they do work perfectly now we do have the option to scroll through images places and we have our settings here on the Google now but they both work fine and they both actually kill Siri now anyways let's check out how some of the hardware interacts with the software we'll do some camera tests and see if each of them are any faster than the other and we'll just do that so you guys can see you can see the transitions are a lot better here on jellybean as we take a picture they kind of slide to the right to get to the gallery on each of these devices what we can do is a on Ice Cream Sandwich click the little recent photo icon we can have our sharing options of an access the gallery like that but on ice then on jellybean we can actually just swipe to the right and bring up our recent photos and we can swipe to the left to go back to the camera or we can press the small image and bring up the entire gallery with our sharing options here now I find that a little more intuitive and easier to use than the ICS way of doing things so now finally we can just go ahead and check out our lock screens we have the top having the status bar we can access the status bar on jellybean but we can't on Ice Cream Sandwich from the lockscreen anyways where I have our custom sliders we can go to the camera or the unlock we can also access Google now on the lock screen of jellybean and we can just go to the home screen on ICS but anyways guys that was our comparison between Android Ice Cream Sandwich and Android jelly bean 4.2 4.1 if you guys have any questions go ahead and drop them into the comments section we'll have our full written review accompanying the video very soon here umm tell us what you guys think do you guys want a rock jelly bean or are you good with the market dominating Ice Cream Sandwich for a while I mean if you've got a Galaxy Nexus you can get the dumps and flash them right to your device there's many other devices coming out with fully functional builds of jellybean as we speak but uh what are your thoughts guys do you like jelly bean or do you like Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich go ahead and drop us a line this is Clayton Youngberg with Android 30.com and have a great day guys