A little problem with Android Ice Cream Sandwich handset

 

The fourth Google handset Samsung Galaxy Nexus (after HTC Dream, Nexus One, Nexus S) had been officially on sale here in Hong Kong from 15 December 2011, yet we do not recommend jumping to the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) system now.  Here is why:

In ICS, the four physical buttons (Home, Menu, Back, Search) are not mandatory now.  As a matter of fact, Galaxy Nexus only have power and volume buttons.  This brings some major problems to some everyday-use apps.  We try to explain in simple wordings.

 

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In the system development kit before ICS, there had been a function which let the programmers to program some response to react to the pressing of the menu button, such as popping up special options.  However, in ICS, Google killed the function.  This brings compatibility issues on quite a number of apps on the market.

We recommend users to wait until Google does something on 4.1, or the app developers to update their code.  Either way, we won’t be using an ICS handset until maybe Feburary 2012.

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