Generally, an improvement in the user interface. But then:

What ICS doesn't magically change is the selection and quality of the tablet apps available in the Android Market. I have consistently pointed out the lack of tablet-optimized apps in my Honeycomb tablet reviews, and it looks like it will be a complaint that persists. While there have been some notable additions and there are some decent tablet-optimized apps (News360, Plume, and TapTu come to mind), others like Facebook and Twitter haven't been redesigned to take advantage of the higher resolution screen, making the experience flat-out disappointing.

WikiPad has made a splash at CES with its WikiPad:3D — a glasses-free 3D 8-inch tablet running Android 4.0.3.

The dogfooding has begun.

The presentation of the Galaxy Nexus, from Hong Kong. (Allow an hour.)

Matias Duarte, Android’s head of user experience: “We’re designing something bigger. We’re designing a showcase product for people that says ‘okay, this is what you could build,’ but then we’re also designing the Lego system that people build those products out of, and we have to do both of those at the same time. And we can’t really cheat and cut any corners and do anything with our product that couldn’t build out of this system.”