“For the last day, I’ve been tinkering around with Google’s Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) 4.0.3 OS on my Motorola XOOM,” Jason Perlow reports for ZDNet.
“I’ve actually managed to try three separate ICS builds for the XOOM, just to get a sense of what stage the code is currently in,” Perlow reports. “The software runs considerably faster, the user interface is more responsive overall and the browser renders pages more fluidly, which has always been one of my major complaints about the OS.”
Perlow reports, “However, while existing Honeycomb tablet owners will see this software as a welcome improvement to what they were using before, I don’t see Ice Cream Sandwich as being some sort of magic bullet that is suddenly going to propel Android tablets into major market share territory… With the exception of Amazon’s Kindle Fire, I still think all Android tablets are seriously overpriced… At least one major Android tablet manufacturer that I know of is due to release an 8GB 10.1 inch device in the next several days in the sub-$330.00 range. I think that’s a good start, but it’s not enough.”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “GetMeOnTop” for the heads up.]