Ice Cream Sandwich previewed on the ASUS Transformer Prime

By Phil Nickinson
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One thing Google didn't show us when Ice Cream Sandwich was announced in October was Android 4.0 running on a tablet. NVDIA's taken care of that for us and is doing so on the ASUS Transformer Prime, one of the more compelling Android tablets we've seen thus far.

While you're certainly not going to get all the nuance of a quad-core Tegra 3 tablet's graphics watching it on video like this, it's worth pointing out that NVIDIA recorded this video just two days after Google released the Ice Cream Sandwich source code. (And Riptide looks as good as ever.) Point is, we very much want some Tegra 3 action (and will get it in the next few weeks with the Transformer Prime), and we very much want some ICS on our exisitng tablets.

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23 Comments
  • Gorgeous!!!
  • FTMFW!
  • WTF?
  • OK so ics on tablet bla. No wow factor please.
  • wtf does your comment even mean? It looks bad @ss! Smooth and no lag! Finally an Android OS version that actually USES all cores and GPU acceleration for the UI. Great job, Google!
  • Want!
  • I always thought it was "asus", not "asoos"...
  • Yea, I always thought it was "Ace-us" and "Uh-Seuss" Haha, I'll stick to what I thought.
  • ...and I thought it was "Jesus"
  • Moses has a pretty sweet Tegra 3 coming out soon as well.
  • It's ay-soos. One of their products has that very description on the box, I can't remember which one. This guy is saying it wrong.
  • You say "Ace-us" they say "Uh-Seuss", let's just call this whole thing off or sumptin' tss tss tss
  • Here is your answer. http://www.engadget.com/2010/12/17/how-to-pronounce-asus-video/
  • sweet mama
  • I asked google how to pronounce it... http://www.engadget.com/2010/12/17/how-to-pronounce-asus-video/ now to Google the price...
  • Too bad she wasn't doing a strip-tease when pronouncing it.
  • It is looking good. Phil, you need to run a spell check before publishing.
  • haha it's funny, Phil usually does a poor job with spelling but I read the articles so fast to get to the video I never notice. I guess I'm as bad of a speller as Phil
  • I read it so fast too... Wait, WHO'S Phil!?
  • Can you control the status bar location? I don't like it on the bottom at all.
  • cant wait to get it on my thrive
  • What is "sandwpreviewed ich"
  • How is he showing full 1080p video on a 720p screen? Doesn't he mean downscaled 1080p?