NVIDIA has released a rather sleek preview video that it had recorded just two days after Google's release of the Android 4.0 source code; depicting a very early experimental version of the brand-new OS running on the upcoming ASUS Transformer Prime quad-core Tegra 3 tablet.
The video demonstrates a blazingly-fast and smooth response that, up until now, has only been associated with Apple iOS devices. Enabling this new found feel of responsiveness are subtle transition effects built in to Android 4.0, the extra-responsive touch panel of the Transformer Prime and the incredible speed of the underlying Tegra 3 processor. It's difficult to gauge from a video but this could be the most responsive tablet we've seen yet, with content appearing to load particularly quickly. The video also shows a new Android 4.0 folder feature that permits the stacking of menu items to form a folder for better management of related icons.
Last but not least, the video allows us a split-second preview of a quad-core optimised game dubbed Riptide. Whilst the glimpse was too brief to form any real conclusions, the game appears smooth whilst managing what felt like a rather complex water simulation. We can't pretend that we didn't spot the quick red-flashes that occurred during certain transitions but it's reasonable to allow NVIDIA a little leeway given the early experimental state of the software.
We're now looking forward, even more so than before, to the release of the ASUS Transformer Prime TF201-B1 16GB and the TF201-C1 32GB.
