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hey everyone this is Tony from pocketnow.com and what I have here is an international unlocked samsung galaxy s2 running Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich the official way and if you have a phone like I do you have every right to be excited because Samsung has finally decided to start the rollout process as of yesterday the update is available in several regions of Europe and Korea if you live in the UK you'll be able to flash this one around March 19th but until then we're gonna show you in this quick video what you can expect from the official ROM so stay tuned so here we are with Android 4.0 point three as you can see here it's the official Ice Cream Sandwich round for the galaxy s2 and this final version isn't that much different from the leaked one which we sell a couple of weeks ago still there are a couple of slight changes for instance in the TouchWiz Department regardless of how many home screens you have set up in the late version or regardless of how many screens in your application drawer whenever you have reached the first or the last screen in the application drawer or on your home screens you had a slight tilting effect which showed you that hey this is the first or the last home screen you cannot scroll past it but we wanted infinite scrolling back and the final build brings it back as you can see regardless of the direction I'm scrolling in you can go on like this forever and of course it applies to the applications r2 which by the way allows you still to have your applications viewed in a ListView let's get back home of course if we go into edit there is still the opportunity to have 3 4 5 6 & 7 so 7 solo home screens you can flip through them like you normally would or if you tap on these small buttons here you will be able to quickly jump to one home stream or the other pinch out and quickly access this is something which I believe HTC introduced with its sense another thing many of you have asked for is how the Samsung Galaxy S 2 running ICS handles multitasking long tapping and holding on the home button brings you the list of your most recently used applications and you can easily discard one or flip back and forth between them so here's my facebook long tap & hold I can switch back to settings long tap & hold I can switch back to the Play Store which by the way doesn't come included in the new ICS ROM it's still Android Market but when you first launch it it will update itself automat to Google Play Store now if you want to close an application or you want to free up some memory you have the button for task manager which is really the Samsung thing as you can see right now we have four hundred and sixty seven sixty five actually megabytes used out of the total of eight thirty-one active applications we have of course Facebook which is using a lot of CPU right now so we might as well kill it and if you want a free up memory you can always clear memory and it will jump down to 329 after closing twenty-something applications of course long tapping and holding allows you to swipe either left or either right to dismiss or basically to remove an application from the history screen another thing you wanted to see is how face unlock works and whether it is included or not we need to go to security to screen lock and will have the option for none slide which is basically what I'm using right now it's your normal unlock circle face unlock which is there and I've tested it out it's working but it's more like a gimmick of course you had the pattern the pin and the password so face unlock is there jumping into the camera no unfortunately the Samsung Galaxy s2 running ICS doesn't allow for instant picture snapping and just to give you an example let's focus on something it's focused BAM but when you don't focus it takes you approximately three seconds let's take the iPhone 4s and snap a picture of it they're approximately three seconds so it's nothing new unfortunately I didn't inherit all the features of the Galaxy Nexus running Android Ice Cream Sandwich the browser is typically your ICS browser nothing good nothing bad it works as it should it's buttery smooth it's not Jaggi it's not laggy it's what you should expect from ICS running on a rather capable device now there aren't many widgets basically there's no additional widget included by Samsung and in terms of pre installed applications the only applications which are new compared to what we had on Gingerbread I think I've put them in a folder regardless it's here on my home screen it's Google+ and messenger that's all which came included in addition to the Gingerbread ROM okay let's jump in and take a look at the battery and you have to take my word for this I've fully charged this phone yesterday this morning I didn't fully charge it hence the counter did not reset I unplugged this phone at approximately 97% of its charge at around 7:30 a.m. now it's 12:15 and I'm still on 77% the screen is of course on has been taking 39% of the battery usage but I've been filming this for the past 10 or 15 minutes with maximum brightness and no screen time out so I should be around 80 maybe 80 plus percent let's get back to the home screen of course in terms of performance day to day usage it is very fluid it's not Jaggi at all I will post some screenshots of the several benchmarks so that you can compare it with your own maybe with a custom ROM you are using and it will give you a general idea what to expect from the official Ice Cream Sandwich run just running quickly through the applications here clock calendar music as you can see nothing new here the gallery is still the good old gallery it's nothing out of the ordinary Google Play Store is something which updated by itself first launching the Android Market Spotify and Shazam is something I install on my own use so is Twitter so is messenger LinkedIn Skype Google+ and messenger team pre-installed Facebook Messenger and are my own installs videos nothing in here of course we have Google Maps but let it you we have navigation we have the task manager nothing out of the ordinary nothing new and of course you have your four hubs which I don't personally use as you can tell they are on my last home screen now many of you out there sent me emails you wanted to see the task manager and I've showed you that and also there were many emails that I received people wanted to see how it's currently updating something yeah it should update Shazam so update notifications work actually what I was telling you about is that I received lots of emails asking me to show you the contact and how Samsung handled it luckily aside from the skin top part the contacts are the same as in ICS let me just try to find a contact which wouldn't mind me showing off his his personal information okay let's see this one as you can see we have the picture right here and if I would be connected to Google+ I will be able to swipe left and then I'd see all the updates and a new pane so this is pretty much it if you want to see something else regarding the Ice Cream Sandwich update leave us a comment below or leave us a comment in the appropriate post on pocketnow.com so as a general idea after using the official run for almost a day we can tell you that it's buttery smooth but we couldn't expect something else from the Samsung Galaxy s2 which is a phone almost one year old but it's still one of the top Android phones out there well there's actually a debate whether the Galaxy S 2 is better than the Galaxy Nexus of course if we don't take into consideration the huge resolution on the Galaxy Nexus still it's buttery smooth it looks good TouchWiz well whether you like it or not it's included else battery life is good reception is good we have only good things to say about this again touch with the side it's Android 4.0 this wasn't in the United from pocketnow.com taking a look at the Samsung Galaxy S 2 running the official Android Ice Cream Sandwich run thank you for 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