Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Ice Cream Sandwich supports USB game controllers and HDMI, turns your phone into a full game console

Ice Cream Sandwich supports USB game controllers and HDMI, turns your phone into a full game console

USB gamepads are already supported in Honeycomb, so we had plenty of hope that Android 4.0 — also lovingly referred to as Ice Cream Sandwich — would offer the same functionality. We finally have the answer, and it's a resounding yes, courtesy of Google framework engineer Romain Guy's Twitter account. The cool part, though, is that HDMI's playing nice as well. In short, you could hook up an external gamepad to a USB-to-microUSB adapter on the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, connect it to your TV and transform your handset into a fancy portable gaming console.
Ice Cream Sandwich supports USB game controllers and HDMI, turns your phone into a full game console


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