Android Ice Cream Sandwich Demoed on Video?
Android Ice Cream Sandwich Demoed on Video?
Posted 09/28/2011 at 2:59pm
| by Ryan Whitwam
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If seeing is believing, then it looks like one lucky eBay user has come across something amazing. After buying a Nexus S on eBay, the device arrived looking a little funny. According to the About Phone screen, this device is running an early dev build of Android’s next update, called Ice Cream Sandwich. The user was good enough to give a haphazard walkthrough on video.
The camera gets a disproportionate amount of screen time, and it’s totally redesigned. Likewise, the notification pane, multitasking interface, lock screen, and launcher are different. The menus have taken on the holographic look of Honeycomb as well. There is also an interesting shortcut icon that opens a list of Google apps. For some reason, the user did not open the browser at all in the video.
The build of the software, IRK48 indicate that this software is probably a few weeks out of date. The number in Android builds is usually the day of the quarter it was finalized. It is possible this is just a serious ROM made to look like ICS, but the detail is all there. What do you think? Check out the video here.
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Michael J
September 29, 2011 at 8:09am
Definitely not a fake. If you read the link, they got updated information that once the good folks at Android found out the video was on the web, the phone was wiped and locked remotely.
blkpanthr
September 28, 2011 at 6:18pm
im not so sure it fake.
Probobly a stolen phone from a google employee a-la apple iphone prototypes.
im active in android developement, and i can tell you that it would take a shit-load of work to theme a fake like that.
Unless you sold it at a premium over a regualr Nexus, it wouldnt be worth it.
love that live walpaper though, i wonder if its available somewhere.
kixofmyg0t
September 28, 2011 at 5:10pm
It's fake.
At least that's my opinion. A Nexus S with a unreleased OS(still 2 months away) wound up on eBay? Yeah right.
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