It flickers to life on-screen and appears to turn on and off when you shake the device it's on.

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It's not obvious, but it is there -- especially on the notifications pull-down, which is smooth as a whistle as it moves across the main screen, whereas it flickers ever so slightly on the Android 4.0 One X.

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So it would not be surprising if these initial flickers were the first signs of a true consumer revival.

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This latest endeavor is no less provoking, and no less attuned to flickers of farce in unlikely places, though it seems, if anything, even more controlled in its indignation.

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