I Upgraded to Google Android 4.0: Ice Cream Sandwich this morning and so far is been a mixed bag. Don’t laugh but I honestly missed a call because I did not understand how to pick up the phone. For those who have not experienced answering a call using Google Android 4.0: Ice Cream Sandwich you are presented with a pulsing button in the center of the screen and not a single indication of what to do. Pressing on the button does not do anything but after the second and third time you realize that you might want to swipe the button left or right. If you happend to go left you hung up on the person, choose right you managed to answer the phone, congratulations!! What I really did like about this was the option, swiping up, to send someone a quick text telling them your busy and will call them back.
Overall the UI is not very intuitive. The menu button gone, you’ll have to hunt around the screen for three vertical dots which have taken its place. However, these can be anywhere, so sometimes you’ll get distracted trying to work out how on earth to alter settings.
I also have hundreds of blank contacts and I’m not quite sure where they came from or why they are on my phone.
I have been a huge Android fan, by I was thinking about how my mother would have responded to the complexity of the UI if I am having challenges navigating the system.