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hey guys its brand am in a min from pocket now calm the motorola droid razr and droid razr maxx now have ice cream sandwich and with it a less intrusive version of motoblur isn't any good let's find out in this video alright let's get start started we'll go right to the lock screen which has that updated Ice Cream Sandwich look and feel you can drag it into a variety of apps this is most likely configurable now so you can set your favorite apps there and up here if this thing would go away we've got what looks to be a quick toggle yes between vibrate and to sound on so that you can quickly without having to unlock the screen go into a different profile so let's unlock the display here this is a widget actually had it earlier so I haven't added any apps onto this yet it's completely stock we're just going to move around and see the fluidity of the interface or to see what the various components look like so the notification shade slightly different than stock Ice Cream Sandwich it looks a little bit different but we've got that functionality where we can swipe off individual notifications and we can also jump into settings from here which is always nice and we've got the Ice Cream Sandwich style toggles and what is really a nice looking settings menu it's kind of a combination between what HTC Samsung likes to do with their lots of color in in the settings and what stock ice cream sandwich looks like which is no color at all so kind of a nice combination of both it's really compact if we go to about phone we are on for point 0 point for so the absolute latest version of ice cream sandwich no word yet if this is going to be upgraded to jellybean although certainly the development community will make it possible once Android source code is released so we've got a lot of typical ice cream sandwich stuff here to look at we're not going to go through all of it let's go back to the home screen and jump into the app tray and the app tray Motorola kept it pretty much stock which is something we always like to see so we've got the sort of pagin aided app tray that when you get all the way to the right it jumps to the next tab here which is widgets and from here of course we can tap and drag a widget to the Home screen no resizing of widgets here which isn't stock functionality anyway nice cream sandwich but some third party lawmakers have it just keeping it simple this is very familiar so you can add a variety of shortcuts to this kind of nice looking actually a quick dial widget that you can move around but of course you can't resize as mentioned we get a choice of one two three four five home screens no more no less you can't do any pinch to zoom or really homescreen map management and from here we can also look at the multitask you I but first let's jump in the camera get some more programs into memory and let's see what they did Motorola did with the camera app it's definitely not stop Ice Cream Sandwich so over here oh that's a really fast way to toggle between camera and and the camcorder not as fast or as intuitive as the HTC Sense counter which puts the video recording and the photo button right in the same right on the same screen we can flip to the front-facing camera here oh hi how you doing that's a beautiful shot and from here we can do a bunch of effects it has 1080p resolution of course and so on and so forth oh that's really cool it does that go halfway oh no it's either out or in that would be cool if you can kind of select how far out it goes let's go back to the home screen there's a little bit of lag so as you can see i press the home screen button well maybe we can recreate it go back into the camera app bring this around okay press the home button yeah there's still a little bit of lag here which is kind of to be expected unless you're running jellybean really it definitely feels a lot faster than gingerbread at least so let's press on the home button and see the multi task queue I kind of got that that animation there and of course if you absolutely despise animations you can go into dis way and is there an animation setting here no it's actually in development sometimes they keep it out of there so we can go to developer options and we can go to window animation scale animation off transition off and now things are a little bit faster it's a really good tip for any device running ice cream sandwich turn off the animations if we go into the multi task list it still animates a little bit regardless of whether you choose that and you can swipe things off the screen let's jump into the browser real quick see if there are any changes so far it looks relatively fluid okay so wants to go on a Wi-Fi network so far this looks like the stock ice cream so much web browser and we can confirm confirm that in a minute let's go to pocketnow.com keyboard also looks kind of stock-based cream sandwich but the keys are actually a little bit taller on them so it might be familiar to some so we'll go to mobile site all right now we're over 4g LTE so we've got a Wi-Fi light connection basically it's quite fast around here so switch the desktop view see what it's like panning around a complex web web page and we've got our tab management here again this is stock ice cream sandwich well go into the settings in the browser and see yep it's got the labs it's got the quick controls this is this is the stock ice cream sandwich browser which is great because it's it's pretty good so you get those quick controls see how fast it goes in the landscape okay so that wasn't that fast let's move quickly around the page a little bit lag of lag when you when you first give that a lot of input who knows maybe that's by design what's pinch-to-zoom a little little crazy here with how it just did that and I'm not really overwhelming this but if I just move up it lags okay it's good there yeah so you know this is definitely a step up from where it was before the droid razr was always kind of fast but a little bit laggy and now it's just a little bit better at least it's got the the ice cream sandwich stuff like the improved app drawer and better notifications and the multitask you I and all of those other things so a really relatively good upgrade you know if I was on verizon I definitely be interested in getting jelly bean on my galaxy nexus it's got a higher risk display it's faster with jelly bean it's much faster and and that's and that's a great device but of course if you've got a droid razr already there's no reason not to upgrade to ice cream sandwich it's an over-the-air update and it's really easy to do so that was a quick look at ice cream sandwich here on the droid razr this is actually the droid razr maxx it's got the bigger battery but they're both the same in terms of performance if you like this video please give us a thumbs up and thanks for watching that's it for now you