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what's up guys it's Lu here this is unbox therapy and I've actually got a very cool video for you this is my Nexus S Samsung or Google Nexus S and I have been able to port over to an Ice Cream Sandwich this is obviously a port of the SDK that's going to be released on the upcoming Galaxy Nexus and everything is not functioning 100% but believe it or not most new features are and there's quite a bit we can learn by looking at what's being implemented here and we can really get an idea basically of how it's going to run on this Nexus S a lot of people are gonna be waiting and hoping for that upgrade potentially on this platform as well as other smartphones Android smartphones that are hoping for the update so the first thing you notice is this different lockscreen here we can go straight into the camera or into the unlock we're gonna go into the unlock for now that's so that you can improve the speed of your access to the camera now something you're going to notice straight away probably one of the biggest changes is the the way that you load the app drawer here rather than scrolling up and down you've got left to right now and another really nice thing is you've actually got widgets right within that space and that includes widgets from third-party applications that you've installed another nice thing about widgets is that they are resizable so you can select any widget here's a real nice scrollable Gmail widget and then you can obviously resize that to suit your needs as I mentioned before it is scrollable and everything is really smooth believe it or not that surprised me considering the fact that this is a single core device unlike all those dual core devices as well as obviously the beast that's coming out that's going to be called the Galaxy Nexus now another thing that you can do in ice cream sandwiches you can make folders well you could always make folders in Android but they look a little different and behave a little differently now all you've got to do is select an app and drop it on top of another one and just like that you've got a pretty little stack of applications and then when you select it boom they just pop open a very nice neat little you know animation they're actually by default you've got your Google Apps down here and there in a little stack themselves a lot of the applications have had minor redesigns Google Plus for example has been minorly redesigned within within Ice Cream Sandwich but the main thing is that it's been implemented well across the OS for you know sort of updating you know from other elements from other places for example the camera and so on and so forth there's a lot of built-in functionality for google plus the other app that has changed as YouTube the YouTube app is now a lot lighter and brighter than it was previously it's obviously a lot darker currently on Gingerbread and or any of the older Android platforms that you might be on this one's really clean everything is surprisingly smooth you can obviously take videos and upload them to YouTube directly from here as well another thing that has been getting some press and obviously has been getting more press on the Apple side which is a voice recognition now if you're in messaging something special about this voice recognition is that it comes up instantly now you're probably saying what does that mean instantly what happens is rather than sitting there and attempting to figure out what you're saying and then come up with it later this one can do it as you're speaking so I'm going to keep speaking and you're going to notice that it keeps on taking down my words it's pretty crazy actually let's go ahead and try an actual message I'm gonna I'm gonna say I'm done here because I'm probably talking faster than I would be if you know I was sending a text obviously this is for the sake of this review here but let's go ahead and try that again I'm going to be late for the meeting I know I said I was going to be 30 minutes instead I will be one hour I mean there it is it's perfect guys it absolutely it absolutely nailed it it's actually pretty crazy as long as you take a little bit of time in between your words I mean you can't speak as fast as I normally do which is probably a little bit faster than usual but it hammers it right away and it's nice to get that immediate feedback from the device showing that it's taken it in now all the other you know voice recognition software is that I have tried they take a little while to think and that's kind of a turn-off even if it doesn't last too long the browser has also got some changes within it you've got a new style of tabbed browsing in fact if you click this button up here you'll see you've got these different windows that I've got open something that you can do as well is if you click the options down below the options are a little different than they used to look you actually get a list now you can open incognito tabs for you know that those private browsing sessions you can also save pages for offline reading which is really cool you just do do it like that and then all of a sudden that stuff's available to you if you're going down on the subway or somewhere that you're not gonna have a connection some other things worth talking about the camera has seen a slight overhaul you know obviously this is a Nexus S so the camera is not super amazing to begin with it can do panoramas now you know the there's some editing functions available as well that are a little bit different let's see if I can show you some of those so yeah right away you notice here if we go into landscape you've got some sharing options that come up right away depending on what you've got installed on device the device it's really easy and quick to share if you click on the image one more time then you're going to notice that you get some options for editing here you can select this particular device you're going to have to still select the menu button you're going to get some options there including details rotate left crop if you select this edit button this is where things get new you've got some really cool little features here and you can toggle them with this little joystick on the right so some cool little mini editing functions for your you know many snaps kind of Instagram like features you can then save your changes and it will also save an original this cool little traffic widget which I hadn't seen before in the way that it works you get a little green light you see the little green light on there telling me that my regular route to the places that I normally travel is is going to be a green light and if you back out it'll actually give you a reading of the amount of time and estimate there it is right there so it'll say 35 minutes my regular route from my current location to downtown would take 35 minutes given the current traffic situation so a really cool widget there otherwise you know I mean it's more of the same obviously the fonts have all changed the notification system has changed you know you've got some things that other launchers offered like you know launcher Pro and stuff offered some of those resizable functions the dialer has obviously changed for the phone we're gonna expect new fonts coming this this one hasn't been completely updated there's a lot of multimedia as far as pictures are concerned contacts are all you know visually based which is really cool and you know it's just an overall more polished experience and I think that once the official release comes out it'll probably get even more polished I'm amazed and functions as well as it does port it in this function over here couple of issues if you're considering doing the same thing bluetooth is not currently functioning on this port and neither is 3G data I'm on Wi-Fi right now so I did this port just in order to give you guys a preview a preliminary review of what to expect on this device once the official upgrade comes out and becomes available or once the Galaxy Nexus hits and I give you guys a review on that alright guys hope that helped out hope you enjoyed this content if you did hopefully you can like and favorite this video as you know it helps me out a bunch and until next time and as always thanks for watching later guys you