Android 4.0 adds style but borrows heavily from everyone

Information is yet coming in but Google and Samsung just showed off Android 4.0 aka Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS). Coming get-go to the Samsung Galaxy Nexus which will characteristic a 4.65" HD Super AMOLED brandish engineering at 720p resolution and a 1.2GHz dual cadre CPU, ICS looks to finally bring a piffling pizazz to the robotic OS.

Android 4.0 adds style but borrows from eveyrone (Image - 0)

A lot of the new "expect" to Android 4.0 can be tied to Matias Duarte, who worked on Palm's ill-fated webOS UI till he was snagged by Google about a twelvemonth and a half agone. Because of that, it seems quite obvious that things like Android'south new calendar and especially the "card view" for multitasking await very familiar (something that even Windows Phone "borrowed"). We not certain making the card-view vertical instead of horizontal is going to fool anyone though. Other things like the People App and even the photographic camera also look heavily borrowed from Windows Phone. Heck, they fifty-fifty said "Putting people at the heart..." instead of "Putting People First", and then yeah.

Reader Anthony submitted the following observations he noticed during the recently YouTubed Keynote:

Swiping betwixt menus instead of tapping them is Metro
action bar is copied from wp7 (especially making it mutual betwixt apps, is exactly what Metro is)
photo anthology UI looks exactly like WP7 gallery
contact groups is from WP7
people app is straight copy of wp7 people'south hub
folder creation method (dragging two icons together to make a binder) is from iOS
Lock screen to camera is from WP7/iOS (which iOS copied from WP7)
switching reply method between e-mail/sms/telephone call in contact card is WP7 (Actually, webOS did that 1st -ed.)

And in full general, the consensus at least from the Twitter-sphere seems to be yes, Android borrows a lot. We always said Android was pretty ugly and so this at least goes a long mode to addressing that though nosotros're not convinced that it's as elegant, shine or equally unified every bit the Metro design language. Merely come across the Windows Phone version after the break for comparison...

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