Video tour of ICS, behold the glory!

[sushiglobster]

Ice Cream Sandwich gets a two-minute tour, courtesy of a lucky eBay shopper (video) -- Engadget

Take a look at this!

Direct video link: http://www.viddler.com/explore/engadget/videos/3293/

Reading the article...how does something like this happen? Someone buys a phone on Ebay only to have it loaded with a supposed build of ICS? Really? Unless this is some very viral cryptic like marketing that Google/Samsung does. Hey, it's possible right?

 

[ManBearPig618]

Just about to post this - seems to be a lot of speculation regarding if this is the real deal or if it's a custom ROM/launcher.

 

[sushiglobster]

Yea...it's really hard to tell these days.

Here's hoping that it's the real deal or at least a build of the real deal.

 

[ManBearPig618]

People in the comments said it apparently looks like a Go Launcher theme? Not sure how a launcher would allow that multitasking action though. Hopefully we'll find out soon enough.

 

[Scottatron]

Video not working for me

Gah, working now.

 

[rew001]

Looks pretty much like Honeycomb for phones. Not that this is a bad thing. Just sayin.....

 

[edoublediz]

thats the worst video showing off an OS i have ever seen!! i say fake just because of that. why would he not show the about screen? this has stink written all over it!!

 

[ManBearPig618]

thats the worst video showing off an OS i have ever seen!! i say fake just because of that. why would he not show the about screen? this has stink written all over it!!

There's a pic of the about screen...under "Android Version" it says "IceCreamSandwich"...something just doesn't smell right to me....thoughts?

 

[Bobrowe78]

Looks great to me, love the honeycomb look. Can't wait for it to come out

 

[EggoEspada]

Im positive this is real and certainly wasn't bought off ebay. It's just someone making a story to cover up their leak. If this person really bought the device unknowingly that it was running ICS, we'd probably be seeing the system dump of the device and more videos. Doubt that will happen which means its his device.

Sent from my ADR6400L

 

[sushiglobster]

yup. I'm thinking the same thing. There's no reflection of his face...no voice...only a bed...and some ebay story. Also, it's on a Nexus S.....

This might very well be an internal leak for sure.

 

[nybmx]

Im positive this is real and certainly wasn't bought off ebay. It's just someone making a story to cover up their leak. If this person really bought the device unknowingly that it was running ICS, we'd probably be seeing the system dump of the device and more videos. Doubt that will happen which means its his device.

Sent from my ADR6400L

Yeah this is what I was thinking. "Leaking" this type of video/story builds up more hype for the upcoming event. This is an especially good thing considering that apple is going to be holding an event soon and has been making headlines with that alone.

 

[yankdez]

where are the software buttons? or is ics set up so that only software buttons show up if your phone doesnt have physical buttons?

 

[sushiglobster]

Possibly. We just won't know until we have it ourselves. I'd imagine that ICS is backwards compatible with other devices, obviously if this video is legit, it IS indeed working on a Nexus S.

ICS probably has the capability to not use buttons, but in this case, since buttons are there....you can use them.

 

[ManBearPig618]

I would assume it would have to be backwards compatible...if not then the Bionic and other newer devices wouldn't be able to receive the update...it would basically draw a line in the sand and permanently stop the updating of tons of phones.

 

[yankdez]

im trying to corroborate this video with the 4chan report a while back. some things are similar, other things are way off. dont know what to believe....

 

[turb0wned]

Come Verizon make the nexus happen!

 

[yankdez]

I would assume it would have to be backwards compatible...if not then the Bionic and other newer devices wouldn't be able to receive the update...it would basically draw a line in the sand and permanently stop the updating of tons of phones.

we've also seen physical buttons on the droid razr/spyder and vigor, so i guess its up to the manufacturers what they wanna do as far as buttons go

 

[elvisgp]

I think it looks great. Anyone else?

Sent from my amazing galaxy tab 10.1 which also eats ipads

 

[rightontime]

Bring back the gingerbread green!!!! Everything else looks good, even in that color of blue