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hey guys Davey here from buff calm and this video we're doing a review on the new ice cream sandwich update on the samsung galaxy s2 in this case it's on the sprint epic 4g touch i'll go ahead and show you you know the general update that you would get with any galaxy s2 and then some of the sprint specific features but let's go ahead and go into the settings so we can see that i am running on android 4.0 for if you tap on this guy you do get that little easter egg press and hold on it and you get a whole bunch of a little ice cream sandwich android so pretty fun but let's go ahead and talk about the features first thing you'll notice is the lock screen so i'll go ahead and lock the screen when you unlock it you have your typical background or wallpaper but now when you unlock you actually have this little lock right here you could drag in any direction so you're not to drag you know the picture off the screen like you would before you can drag in any direction and unlock like that so pretty cool to see that it's kind of like it is on the new galaxy s3 our new TouchWiz so it's nice to see the samsung you know included that feature if i unlock it what actually you could also do is get the weather to show up on the lock screen so i'll go ahead and go to the display settings really quick it's going to check whether and I let it get my gps location so i'll lock it again you see now it's showing the weather so another cool feature makes a little bit more handy to have your weather right there instead of having to unlock it you know a lot of us you know use the widget up here i don't have mine up right now but typically i do and it makes it easier to have it around the lock screen so that's nice next thing once i was a notification bar first thing you'll notice is the 4g icons a little bit different we go ahead and turn off Wi-Fi really quick and turn on 4G um you'll notice that it's basically like the 3g icon you basically get the up and down arrows for upload and download honestly i don't really prefer this one because the old one actually gave you you know the signal strength that you have 4g now you just get the download and upload but really isn't that big of deal for me another thing that you'll notice on the notification bar is the battery percentage i'm not sure if my camcorder will be able to catch that but anyway you can see the little white text right over here that's a battery percentage it says eighty-six percent and again this is you can actually turn off in the settings if you don't want it so this battery percentage icon kind of similar to what it is on the galaxy s3 and actually enable and disable the same way by checking unchecking this guy so you see it's they're not there and there again so anyway that is that um you don't have the option to go into your settings from here which is kind of disappointing because I did like having that you know quick short cover here because instead of you know I rather do that than having to hit menu and then settings I know it's really the same thing I mean it's two button presses but i don't know i just got kind of used to that so anyway that's one thing that like um let's talk about the launcher so go ahead and open up the app launcher and it looks pretty much the same as it did before but the main difference now is you can actually go to sprint ID so this is for the sprint variant the epic 4g touch specifically you can go over to what's called my ID it's already pre-loaded and download or anything and boom you have the stock ICS launcher which is definitely something that you know i like to have I mean just having that choice is nice i actually prefer this launcher maybe because I'm so used to my galaxy nexus but I know some of you guys like touch was more because really matter i mean doesn't hurt to have the choice if you want to go back you just tap on the samsung ID and boom you have your regular touch with launcher so that's definitely a cool feature multitasking you press and hold home and you know you get the typical ICS multitasking if you wanted to close your apps out just slide them over to the left like that you can see has an option for task manager it moves up to the middle when you have no apps you know i can tap on this and i can see no applications okay look at my ram clear the memory whatever i would do before um let's see another thing is a screenshot so before you take a screenshot when you know pressing the power button and the home button at the same time and it still works but now you can actually do the regular ICS way which is hold a volume down and then power so you actually have two methods take a screenshot not really a big deal i me if you're used to the home method but sometimes you know if you're pressing and holding the home button and it brings up the applications it could get confused with that so it's a little bit easier to do with the volume down I should prefer using the volume down but anyway that's not that big of a deal another thing is the swype keyboard so i'll go ahead and load up the keyboard really quick let's go ahead and load up a of the calendar really quick and make a calendar event so anyway see the swype keyboard looks a little bit different basically just the newer version of it works pretty well obviously you know an improvement over the older one so it's definitely to be better another thing is the settings let's go ahead and go over to the same so first thing you'll notice is actually when I press the menu button instead of having a little short like six short cut squares over here at the bottom you have this more out this longer little rectangular box and this is a little bit cleaner and that's the general theme with ICS and if i tap into settings you can see I have these wireless toggles right here for quick and easy access honestly it's not that big of deal mean on the Galaxy Nexus is the great thing because you know you have your settings shortcut it's really easy to get to but on a phone with TouchWiz all these chakras are available up here so really no need to have it over here of course you have a data usage which you know I'm using a lot of data on this phone but this one's nice to be able to you know control your data but if you're on sprint you have the sprint you know epic 4g touch you don't really even need it that's why I set the limit so high because they kept on bugging me as far as the warning so i took that thing off so anyway that is that the settings are new and refreshed like it is on ice cream which go ahead and show you really quick that it doesn't face unlock so you could use you know this guy's front-facing camera it's under security of course so I tap security and go to screen lock you can also set their set it to be a no screen lock by hitting none which is I don't know I mean some people like it that way every time you press the power button it takes you straight into what you want to get into anyways just go ahead and go to security and screen lock you see facelock I get set it up right now as I normally would I'm not gonna do it I was Troy you guys that it does work anyway close out of there um but yeah that's pretty much it i mean overall you know the updates been really good i mean if you have if you don't have to galaxy or if you have the galaxy s2 more likely already got this update um mainly this video is probably for those of you guys who haven't got it and are considering buying this guy specially now that I know a lot of the carriers are lowering the price on it and it's a really good deal because it's a really great phone mean great camera great front-facing camera screen with a super amulet not the highest resolution obviously but um definitely something I like anyway so far you know I have to give it a thumbs up for the update no major hiccups no glitches only glitch I kind of noticed a little bit was when I press the home button sometimes the see how the backgrounds like great out sometimes the bottom bar doesn't get great out it just like these little icons like show bright and it kind of looks weird but other than that so far so good everything's working good it's nice to be able to have google chrome working on here um yeah this is you know seven-minute video just talking about update hopefully it helps you guys out if you like it please hit the thumbs up button and subscribe to channel and don't forget to visit phone book on friars ladies cell phone news reviews and how to's thank you