Android Ice Cream Sandwich SDK Released

Hitting the front page for the first time, ttong writes "The highly anticipated Android 4.0 (codenamed Ice Cream Sandwich) has been released and finally brings the features of 3.x Honeycomb to smaller devices. Some of the highlights include: a revamped UI, a much faster browser, face unlock, a vastly improved camera app, improved task switching, streaming voice recognition, Wi-Fi Direct, and Bluetooth Health Device Profile. ... The API level is 14, download the new SDK here." calc noted that the source code has yet to be released (Google account required) except to legally required GPL components. Supposedly progress is being made toward getting AOSP back online: "We're working on it and we're making good progress, but we're not ready to announce any additional details yet." How many of the new features will remain proprietary and tied to Google services remains to be seen.

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Re:That's cool, but my one grip still

[ArcherB]

is the miserable battery life. My droid Incredible goes barely a day and a half with little to no good smartphone usage. If I use the internet or video at all the battery is gone in less than a day. I even have all the default auto-running programs deleted. I will probably go back to iphone after this just because of its incredible battery life. I had the 3g and it was amazing.

I hear that complaint a lot, and even made it myself when I had an Evo4G. However, I found that if you disable all the features that are not present in the iPhone, like 4G, live wallpaper, widgets, flash, live weather, etc, I think you'll find the battery life to be comparable to what you had on your iPhone. My Evo3D is as good or better than my buddy's iPhone4 by simply turning off live wallpaper and 4G.