By all rights, Joel should be telling you all about this, because he’s way more up-to-date on this tech than I am.  But I’ll do my best.

The hot new version of Android that is imminent is called “Ice Cream Sandwich.”  Folks who have tested it and played with it say that it’s quite good, certainly the most solid and “finished” version of Android to come out yet.  Developers have had their mitts on it for a while now, and graphics boffins NVidia has announced a mobile quad-core processor, which is slated to debut in the ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Prime tablet.  [pant pant]  Did I get that all right, Joel?

So anyway, here’s a video demo for your enjoyment.  You can find out more via NVidia’s blog.

Full information below.

The world’s first quad-core mobile processor was recently made official with our announcement of the NVIDIA Tegra 3 chip, which will debut in the ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Prime Android tablet.

Following on Google’s release of Android 4.0 “Ice Cream Sandwich” (ICS) source code last week, we thought you’d like an early demo of ICS running on the Eee Pad Transformer Prime.

Google has done a great job on ICS and has made the platform open to the ecosystem and easy to develop on. Thanks to Google’s developer support, NVIDIA’s experienced software team was able to work with ASUS to quickly bring up Android 4.0 ICS on the Transformer Prime.

Recorded on November 16, only two short days after the source code for ICS was made publicly available, the video below shows the next-gen Android OS user interface looking clean and snappy on the Transformer Prime. This is just a sneak peak of things to come for the first Tegra 3-powered Android tablet.

This is just an early demo, but we think you’ll agree it’s extremely impressive that so much is already working well. Check out the flawless1080p video playback  and quick demo of the quad-core optimized Riptide GP game in the video below.

By the way, find pre-order information for the Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime, powered by Tegra 3, at asustablets.us.