10 awesome features Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich

With Ice Cream Sandwich, Google is hoping to makes it's new Android operating system more powerful, polished and more approachable without sacrificing power or versatility. And this are the new features from Android Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS):

1. New Cool Font
Android ICS using a new font called Roboto. This new font is slick and very cool. With this new font, text will look more sharp and clear.

2. Resizable Widgets
The home screens are still limited to five, but this time there's no option to get rid of unwanted one.But now you can resize widgets just by pressing and holding on them and then dragging any one of the corners. This is certainly very useful for users who often displays a lot of widgets in the home screen.

3. Face Unlock
Maybe this is one of the most sophisticated feature from Android ICS. Probably no easier way to unlock a phone than staring at it, and ICS with Face Unlock lets you do that. Just setting up Face Unlock with your face, and make sure you have enough ambient light for the front-facing camera.

4. Respond to Calls with a Text
Android ICS makes it easy to ignore incoming calls without being rude. If you're too busy to answer, just swipe up and you'll see a list of default text messages you can tap. You can choose from "Can't talk right now. What’s up?" or "I'll call you right back." You can also create a custom message on the fly.

5. Favorite Tray
Now users can put all frequent apps, links, or even a folder into one special tray.

6. New Camera Apps
There are tons of the enhanced camera functions, like image stabilization, autofocus, panorama, as well as some photo editing features like auto-fix and cropping.

7. Better Web browsing
The new browser in Ice Cream Sandwich is not only faster than its predecessor, it lets you open up to 16 browser tabs at once. You can also sync bookmarks from your Google Chrome account. You can also save a page for offline reading.

8. Screenshot
Now users can access these functions simply by pressing and hold the power button simultaneously with the volume keys to capture images.

9. Multitasking Better than iOS
The Recent Apps button now comes in handy, displaying thumbnails of open apps in a vertical stack that you can easily scroll through. Even better, you can just swipe an app off the screen to close it. This approach is more straightforward than iPhone.

10. Improved Contact Integration
System integration of the contact list has also been improved. Users can now synchronize not only to the list on Google+, Facebook, Twitter and others, but also specify a list of favorite contacts and place them in an easy-access folder.