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hey guys it's brandon minimun from pocket now calm if you've been waiting to get ice cream sandwich on your Nexus S you can do it now and we'll show you how in this video let's get to it so Google is going to be releasing Ice Cream Sandwich for the nexus s in particular and lots of OEMs are going to be releasing updates for devices that are out now but right now this is the beta version of ice cream sandwich on the Nexus S there's a lot of force closes he probably could use this as your daily driver if you wanted to but really it's more so for test purposes right now and generally it works quite well all the features are there Wi-Fi data everything is working we put a link up in the description and tell you exactly where to go to get the files all you need is a rooted nexus s and it's extremely easy to uninstall it's like installing any other wrong so let's talk about ice cream sandwich and how it feels on an actual phone we've given you a tour of how Ice Cream Sandwich feels in an emulator but there's nothing like getting it on an actual phone and feeling what it is what kind of experience it brings so of course in Ice Cream Sandwich we've multiple home screens and along the bottom we have a little slider that shows you which home screen you are on we also have the dock on the bottom here you can add and remove too so let's say we just want to put settings down here very easy very obvious stuff to do there's a new application tray which is organized by apps and widgets and you can swipe to the right and you see again that little notification down there that little slider that shows you which screen you're on we can also go over to widgets and this is right out of honeycomb the tablet UI so we can take an analog clock drag it over to a screen on the right pop it there we can go back into the the widget tray here slide over to the right you've got many pages of widgets as you can see here it can add a Google search to this page and drop it there and there you go it's it's very simple it's very reminiscent of of using honeycomb and there's a lot of other little changes like to add wallpaper you no longer tap on the menu button in fact that does nothing in a lot of cases you tap on the background and that'll bring up your wallpaper picker kind of makes sense doesn't it so another thing you can do with ice cream sandwich is selectively wipe away notifications and there's actually going to be an alarm that goes off in a minute so that we can test that out but before we do let's jump into the browser because the browser UI has been changed a little bit so we're already loading here Emma and gadget calm and maybe we need to refresh it there okay here it is and over here on the left if you tap on the fav icon you can actually change between mobile and desktop view right on the fly which is a great feature there's also a new UI for switching between open tabs so this is what it looks like it's pretty fast it's pretty quick and intuitive so let's go to pocket now here the browser is pretty facets it's definitely buggy in this beta version of ice cream sandwich in fact it's not even working most of the time and there it goes it's a lot better with mobile web pages okay so there we have an alarm and if we it's news go to notification shade there it is watch this you can swipe off or maybe not I guess alarms you can't swipe off because it's still there but things like text messages and emails you can wipe off the screen which is a really nice feature so we've got lots of new widgets that come right out of honeycomb kind of these built-in widgets that are almost a frame so we can scroll within the widget itself which is nice we can tap and hold on it and resize it although kind of limited in how you can resize it in this case you really can't at all but a lot of the other widgets you can resize which is nice so you can really take advantage of your home screen space we've got this google search bar right on the home screen it'll bring up a google search obviously let's dive into settings here and see what has changed a lot of things have changed they really reorganize the whole settings menu so instead of getting item after item after item you get categories so there's wireless and network there's device there's personal and everything has this holographic you I look and feel kind of looking like the tron movie right so with these fluorescent blue colors and very modern-looking interface that they've brought the ice cream sandwich so this data usage thing is cool but it only works if you have a data card in this will work with your data connection this beta version of ice cream sandwich so you can test it out it lets you set caps so that for example when you get to a 250 megabyte data cap it'll tell you so you don't go over and are charged and overage let's go back we've got a lot of other things that are taken out of gingerbread and honeycomb let's go to applications see if anything has changed there so we got a kind of a new UI here and we can swipe to the right or sometimes again you can tap to the right see if that's wipe works it works in some screens but not in others for example if you go to the phone UI you'll get three tabs along the top see that and we can actually swipe between them really cool effect their kind of reminds us of Windows Phone 7 actually the way that it does that let's go back into the settings menu see what else is in there so the stuff you're used to seeing accounts and sync security backup and reset if we go into about phone you'll see that we're running on Android 4.2 task you I in Ice Cream Sandwich it's taken right out of honeycomb so if we tap and hold on the home button you'll see what I mean it shows you open previews of all the apps that are open this is a cool UI because you can take out your thumb and kind of flick between them and land on the one that you want very easily now what you'll find is that a device like the Galaxy Nexus has a constant built in virtual multitask button along with the home button and the back button just like honeycomb older hardware like the Nexus S you still have to take advantage of the hardware keys which means that the multitask you I isn't one tap away it's always going to be a tap and hold tap away because the home button here has to serve two purposes where's on the Galaxy Nexus there's a home button and a multi task button so it'll work on legacy hardware no problem just not as intuitively as you'll find on the Galaxy Nexus that's coming out and future Ice Cream Sandwich hardware let's dive into the mail application hopefully there's nothing there that does private does it look like it so the mail application looked and feels a lot like honeycomb once again so we've got quick Shinzon the bottom if we go into the menu there are far fewer options there are only two options they're really trying to take in in Ice Cream Sandwich the the settings out of the menu and kind of put it right in front of you so here we have all these buttons if we tap on items these things down here will change and you can impact what has been checked with these buttons and that way you're not having to dive into the menu all the time you the functions that you use the most are out in the front so a really nice new email you I there's also a nice new calendar UI and here's what it looks like and of course you can drill down into the days and and everything like that and also folders are a little bit different in Ice Cream Sandwich as you can see they pop up their kind of nicer looking and let's see how you add a new folder if we take this and dump it on top of there hey does that look familiar it comes from the iphone so you drop it in there and you get a little preview and a little listing of all the apps that are within the folder unnamed folder so you can rename it you know hello done now you have the hello folder and the google apps folder which contains all the google apps that you've come to expect so a lot of little changes and a lot of UI changes in Ice Cream Sandwich definitely the biggest interface change in a while what we're going to do is spend a few days with this we're going to update it once the new beta comes out and give you a report once we get to spend a bunch of time with it on how Ice Cream Sandwich feels on legacy hardware and of course will be getting the Galaxy Nexus in here relatively soon and show you how a maid for ice cream sandwich device looks and feels if you liked this video please give it a thumbs up and again check the description if you've got an XSS and you want to try this on your own thanks for watching that's it for now you