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Originally Posted by Dezoris
There are a few major things. Jelly Bean/ICS supports lastest launchers which is critical for making android more touch friendly. Support for higher screen res and pixel density. They are more heavily optimized for newer processors. Video player software is also optimized now for hardware accelerated dual core and video GPUs which means with ICS and Jelly Bean you can actually play all video formats smoothly. You wont be able to playback 720/1080 mkv files on these old 2.3 headunits with 800/1000mhz cpus.
Then there is GAPPS which I said before the latest version of google maps, local, g+, voice search and gmail will not run on 2.3. The lastest versions are FAR ahead in tech. Thats a deal breaker for me in the car. The whole point of android in the car is not to be locked down
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Some of that is true. Some isn't. I don't know how often you plan to watch movies while driving, much less HD ones on a 6 inch screen from the front seat. You're wrong in that 1GHz is plenty for 720p mkv. I know because there are currently a half dozen bluray rips on my SD card, converted to 720p.
Truth is, for what you use a head unit for, its perfectly fine. I can check gmail but can't think of anyone who would type one from a head unit, voice search does work...and well at that. I don't use google maps because an offline solution is a better fit for car operation.
Where you are right is not being able to use the latest and greatest launcher, but honestly, there isn't a launcher that's better than this or that for a car. I'm planning on changing that by developing a launcher for android that can work well for head units. From my studies I don't need ICS to do it.
Regardless, as a head unit, its better than your kenwoods and pioneers which are even more outdated hardware wise. And they cost more. But the trade off is you just drive to best buy whenever they have problems. You may just get your ICS head units in the future, then all the android number buffs will be happy :-)