Spend few hours installing Android ICS (Cyanogenmod built for x86) on my exopc tablet and playing with it.
I've never been impressed by Meego installed on it as a developer preview, performance and feature-wise. I've found yesterday evening those instructions and links about a corvusmod rebuild of cynagenmod and I gave it a try! Of course, as this is not an arm device but x86 one, not a lot of applications are working out of the box, but overall, the UI is totally functional and browsing the web is a delightful experience.
After migrating to a google nexus phone (my previous phone had android 2.2), I’m now full ICS at home and I love it! Well done Android team for taking hard decisions and focusing on the user experience itself[1]. This tremendous turn on having coherent and well-designed UI gave a lot of credits to the whole OS. Everything is now smooth on my phone AND my tablet and I love the whole ecosystem integration. :)
I hope we will be able to deliver the same kind of experience on ubuntu, coherent and centralized ecosystem where going from one device to another is almost seamless. I noted as well that the base OS image is only ~170 Mb. I wonder if we could achieve something similar seeing for how many releases we stroke to find enough space on the old 700Mb limitation… I guess we will have to take drastic decisions, but this time, keep them straight as we already tried 2 years ago with the netbook edition flavor :)