Ice Cream Sandwich new features

<p>Google has added a huge amount of new features to Android 4.0, so I thought I'd make a list of some of the most important ones:</p>
<p>UI:<br>
Google stuck with the almost Tron-like UI of honeycomb here. The main buttons are built into the software, and the launcher is customizable. Google also created a brand new font for 4.0 to make text easier to read on the device.</p>
<p>Camera:<br>
Google added features such as panorama and photo editing as built in features. Google also promises close to zero shutter lag with the new software</p>
<p>Built in Apps:<br>
Google is also updating all of its core applications including YouTube and Google maps for the new iteration of android. Apps look to be closer to what is seen on Honeycomb.</p>
<p>Google is also updating the browser, with features such as tabbed browsing.

One of the more interesting features, however, is Google beam, an application that allows NFC enabled phones to share everything just by touching phones. And I mean everything. One phone in the demo was playing minecraft and they bumped- and the other phone began downloading the app.

Contacts are much better integrated into Android in this version as well.

Nexus Prime support page pops up, tipster gleans a few tidbits

An unidentified GSM arena tipster found a support page for the much lusted Nexus Prime. The support page is officially for the GT-i9250, which belongs to no product as of yet, but the tipster believes that this will be the product number for the unannounced, unreleased Prime. There have been numerous leaks about the Prime's specs before now, but this is the first cold hard evidence that has been released supporting its existence.


The support page itself hardly has anything regarding the phone, with the FAQ's and the support links all belonging to other phones.


The first thing that the tipster reported was the fact that the leaked user agent profile that was supposedly for the Prime was actually for the Nexus S. He said that by doing so, the page was just to be used as a placeholder for when the Prime was released. And oh yeah, the name? Turns out that the name Nexus Prime is probably (but not certainly) a code name, and that the actual release name may be "Google Galaxy Prime" or something of that nature.


And when that leaked user agent profile leaked, there was a whole lot of controversy surrounding the purported 800x480 resolution. That makes sense because the page was used as a placeholder, a place held by the Nexus S, which contains that resolution. The tipster believes that the resolution should be an intense 1280x800 HD resolution, on a 4.65 inch edge to edge curved glass display. 


The body of the phone will be constructed of aluminum, much like the Nexus One, and will be a slim 8.8 mm thin.


And the phone will launch around October, confirming Eric Schmidt's own leak when he reported the first Ice Cream Sandwich handsets would launch then.