People need Android but people did not love Android Matias Duarte direction of the Android OS user experience said last year. Ahead of the launch of the latest addition of the world’s most popular smart phone operating system that aimed to change predicament the trouble was that despite emerging as the numerous OS for smart phone that also powered tablets Android was considered too nerdy for the main stream complicated was perhaps too harsh a term but the flexible versatile go anywhere do any thing OS had a distinctly rough around the edges feel about it. Pitted against tough competitors like Apple’s OS that powered iPhone and iPads with such simplicity that even five year old could take it for a spin and Microsoft windows phone that exuded elegance straight out a sci-fi flick Google android for all its feature packed was just not smooth enough ask and you shall receive said mighty google for the umpteenth time and lo the little green robot was no longer the awkward geek of the school but he smart kid who was pretty cool to hang out with. With a Tron inspired Holo UI that added the much needed ooh to the hitherto lonely aah the developers unleashed a complete redesign of the OS Ice Cream Sandwich officially labeled Android 4.0 and served it fresh on the Samsung made Galaxy Nexus. But despite being made in collaboration with google and fully supporting all the latest Android cheddar the Galaxy Nexus somehow embodied the first shot factor and even back then reviewers wondered if perhaps the true chi of ICS awaited a worthier bearer the most likely contender the successor to the wildly popular Samsung Galaxy S II.

Since that late last year debut Ice Cream Sandwich has gone to adorn a number of noteworthy handsets the mobile world congress in Barcelona earlier this year saw unveiling of a number of phone rocking uber powerful quad core processors and suoerbly refined aesthetics but even as the HTC One X and sony’s pretty line of new Xperias murmurs about the Galaxy S III refused to subside. Its really great the Samsung came up with a yellow phone sporting a low def projector that can drain the battery fast but where on the earth is the Galaxy S3 wrote a tech blogger taking a jibe at the one of few offerings showcased at the cell phone carnival by South Korea’s largest chaebol.

The bitting question was answered a few weeks later when Samsung announced that the much awaited smartphone would finally see the light of day in May and also for some reason be the official phone of the 2012 london Olympics. With an axiomatic tagline designed for humans the Galaxy S III was unveiled to rave reviews that were near unanimous in placing the phones ahead of its competitors and why not for month the tech press had gone spastic over what to expect from the S III that was not just the flagship device of the Samsung brand but arguably of the Android family itself and their fantasies had just been realized a ginormonus 4.8 inch display as brilliant as they come that fits a from factor more comfortable to hold than many smaller phones a quad core processor That screams performance a huge 2100 aAh battery reception audio camera software it seemed seasoned gadget reviewers were unable to restrain themselves from heaping praises on the phone. But the Galaxy S III’s Ferrari were not the only things tipping the scales in its favour it was in the detailing of features such as an eye tracking functions that prevent the screen from dimming whilst reading stuff a repeat vibration reminder of alerts when the users pick up the phone after a while the retention and better ment of things Galaxy S fans have loved an amiable design the little things adding to the beastly powers that made the phones stand apart from its peers.

ICS was largely seen as a descent from the beaten track of Android design but the devices it ran upon arguably seemed somewhat afraid to venture in to the road that had been less traveled by thus making the experience not as seamless as Apple’s iPhone or Nokia Lumia devices that appeared that marry the software and the hardware in a much truer bond. The Samsung Galaxy S III changes all that meeting a once incoherent now platform halfway with a device that truly radiates with the platform’s characteristics innovation it achieve something different from both Apple or Microsoft and friends. It is not just how the parts of a phone or the features of a software work, its how those factors work together to exceed their mathematical sum. And that is why the Samsung galaxy SIII and Ice Cream Sandwich in spite of taking their time appear to have been best made for each other and offer the best of the Android universe at least for now.