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hey guys Joe with pocketnow.com now since we've had a couple days to play around with the Samsung Galaxy Nexus which runs Ice Cream Sandwich or Android 4.0 what have we found that's different we'd like to show you let's go take a look so generally speaking the first thing you're gonna see when you turn your phone on is the lockscreen how you can get in and start using your phone well that's a little bit different with Ice Cream Sandwich so let's start there first and foremost the system lock or the screen lock can be set to none so you push the button and you're up and running that's probably the fastest way slide that's similar to what we're used to all show you that in just a minute face unlock now face unlock is a new feature in Ice Cream Sandwich as long as you have a front facing camera that is supported by ICS you can set your face up to unlock it I'll show you a little bit about that right now it's a little bit slower than you might like and it's only about 50 to 80 percent accurate and that accuracy goes down quite a bit in low-light scenarios which ironically I found myself in quite a bit pattern is what we're used to with the pattern where you can just draw a pattern on the screen a little bit different look to it pin is your personal identification number and password is your password so not a lot changes there let's look at slide first so we'll select that we'll go back home and I'm going to turn the phone off and I'll turn it back on and now you can see I've got this little lock with a hint telling me to go over to the side it shows you my carriers t-mobile the time my name email address and the date so we'll go ahead and unlock that now if you notice I've got this little ring that has a couple action items on it over here I've got my camera so if I want to launch my camera act right away I can just take it over there or on the side I have my unlock to just take me to the home screen and of course it timed out there because I was talking too long so I'll just drag it there and we're unlocked to get in and change that we're gonna skip around a little bit here to change that you grab your notification tray and pull it down and you've got your little setting sliders right there at the top tap that you can get into it that's the fastest way to get into settings course you can still do it through the app drawer but that's probably the fastest under security that's where we were just looking and screen lock that's where we can set this information up so let's go ahead and look at pattern we'll draw a pattern here we'll do that pattern continue that pattern confirm great turn the phone off turn it back on and here's my pattern just kind of small dots not the large ones that were used to but we can draw it up and over and I've set it so that it vibrates on touch and it doesn't show the pattern so if somebody's looking over your shoulder they won't see what your pattern is but of course you can change that just like with the previous versions as well let's see if we can do face unlock a demo here for you really quick if you want to set up face unlock there are a few things to keep in mind one it's not as secure as a pattern a pin or a password a twin brother or sister or sibling who looks like you could potentially unlock your phone with their face because they look very similar to you and the data that's used to identify your face is kept private on your phone so it's not being uploaded to Google to create some kind of a huge biometric face recognition system of all the people who use Android you don't need to worry about that let's go ahead and set it up now what you'll see here is a ring of dots and you'll see me with the camera here so it's not going to recognize me and I've tried this a few times before and it just doesn't do it so I'm gonna have to do it off camera but I'll show you what happens maybe it would work this time it goes around and recognizes your face and various different components to it data points if you will when you continue you're asked if you want to set up a pattern or a pin and go ahead and set up a pattern again we'll do the same one continue confirm it and we're good to go now when we turn this off I got a hold it real close here so hopefully it'll recognize me takes a minute well there you go usually it takes a minute to turn on the camera in which case you've got this kind of black rectangle right there in the middle that's while it's initializing the camera but once we do that BAM right there you're in this is actually a little bit quicker than most so kind of nice I'm going to turn that because I think it might have the camera in there and then gonna set it to none but really kind of a cool way to do a screen unlock let's get into more of our notification tray now so this is the home screen we do have our new google search bar which is persistent across all the screens there we've got our doc bar on the bottom that you're familiar with we've got our common or persistent buttons down on the bottom I'll get to some of that in just a minute but up at the top we've got our notification bar bluetooth is on Wi-Fi is on my HSPA+ and network or my gsm rather is on batteries hi and there is my clock using the the new Roboto font so very nice let me go ahead and send an email to myself and we'll see that notification show up right here in the notification bar in just a moment so now I've got a new notification I've got a gmail up here when I pull down this notification tray you can see I've got a message from me it shows you that I have three emails and if I want to dismiss them all I can hit the X or if I want to I can simply swipe to dismiss now what you also saw in there was a little Avatar if I had my own picture set up it would have showed my face right there which is really kind of nice if you've got four or five emails that shows you who they are right there if it's a Gmail like that one it kind of consolidates all into one if it's corporate email and whatnot it'll stack them a little bit better but really nice really easy to just swipe to dismiss it's very very fluid so next let's get to the next cool thing and that's your app drawer which really isn't a drawer anymore so I tapped on that and now we've got our apps and our widgets and our market just right there really quick you can jump between them apps widget market this is now a horizontal paginate er so you can see where you are on the screen down at the bottom I'd like it if that persisted a little bit more but it doesn't that's all my apps next it switches over to widgets and widgets are essentially the same thing as apps now you can just tap and drag and drop so we'll go ahead and do that let's put feeder out here I don't have any room on that screen so let's come over here to this one and I'll drop it right in place there you go let's do Dilbert that's always fun I can find Dilbert or hers Dilbert he's right down here so now I have a daily Dilbert feeder widget on my home screen and I've got my YouTube widget that's going out and getting my my latest feed there so really kind of cool now let's say I don't want well we got to switch over to something else let's say that I don't want this Way's widget on the home screen I mean I like it there but let's say I need something else there okay let's go ahead and go back to the home screen yes I want to turn it off I want that to be down here so it's accessible all the time say with my web browser so I'm going to tap and hold and just drop that right down on to my browser let it go now I have a folder that I can name just very simply we're going to call this blah I don't know what we want to call it so we'll just call it blah we can say done there we go we can also reorder the widgets by just or excuse me the icons by dragging and dropping them so really kind of cool now whatever you put first is up first and it remembers that order you know what I decided I really don't like that so I'm just going to go ahead and change it back if I can to to the home screen and it should let me drop it right there which it does and now I'm back so very easy way to create folders and and move them around and work with them the last thing we're gonna look at is back into settings okay so we're gonna go into settings again dragging that down hitting settings now the first thing you're going to notice is this is a lot shorter than what you're used to we had tons and tons and tons of settings in here before now we have them broken up Wireless and networks has the top or most frequently used settings we can go into more here's our device stuff there's our personal stuff and system just a very basic very fun let's go into Wireless and networks because that does have a more we can switch into airplane mode VPN can turn on tethering or a portable hotspot right there turn on and off NFC Android Beam is of course the cool new feature that lets you tap your phone to the back of another phone to send stuff they don't have another NFC phone in hand just yet so I can't show you that feature but it's really cool Wi-Fi direct if anybody knows what this is please let us know in the comment I haven't found any information on it at all and then mobile networks this is of course your your carrier settings and whatnot if you want to enable data roaming so similar to what you've seen in the past overall very nice very fast very fluid you can see just how quick things are in here there's your you've gone to the edge and there's no more to see animation it's really quick really nice getting back to the Galaxy Nexus very vibrant screens very bright very pretty very true blacks I like it quite a bit and of course the speed is just all over the place it's not as fast as some of the galaxy s twos but it's not supposed to be this is your Google feature phone with its nice curved screen and curved back and of course Ice Cream Sandwich on it so a little bit of a detailed rundown on some of the newer things that you can see with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich if you've got something that you liked about this or that you don't like let us know in the comments of the video down below of course if you have not yet subscribed to our video channel make sure you do that so you can stay up to date on all the other cool Nexus and Android Ice Cream Sandwich news and information and if you like seeing this kind of stuff so you don't have to go out and plunk down a big chunk of change on the phone yourself give the video a big thumbs up for PocketNow showing off Ice Cream Sandwich I'm Jill Levi