One of the first fully working
Ice Cream Sandwich ports has been produced and made public to anyone with a Nexus S. Kellex and I just spent the last hour drooling, ooohing and awing over this thing on our very own devices - it's super impressive.
We'll be keeping track of other various
Ice Cream Sandwich ports and hacks right here, as they come.
The Android community seems to have been working on
Ice Cream Sandwich ports from the very moment the source code was released, and now it appears someone has managed to make the Asus Eee Pad Transformer the first tablet to run Android 4.0.
It's clunky, it's slow and you would not want to use it in real life but the fact that the talented folks at XDA - Developers have
an Ice Cream Sandwich port up and running on a three year old T - Mobile G1 shows a lot of promise.
The Android modding community has come through once again, delivering
an Ice Cream Sandwich port for Samsung's original Galaxy S — though there are some caveats.
The latest Android - based device to get an unofficial
Ice Cream Sandwich port is the Nook Tablet, the Gingerbread - operated slate released last November.
Not exact matches
Last week a Chinese retailer called Aliexpress began selling a $ 74 USB key - sized computer with an AllWinner A10 1.5 - GHz CPU, 802.11 g Wi - Fi, HDMI - out, both micro USB and full USB 2.0
ports, 512 MB of RAM, 4G of Flash memory which is expandable up 32 GB via a microSD card slot and Android 4.0
Ice Cream Sandwich.
The Acer Iconia Tab A200 is a 10.1 - inch Android 3.2 tablet (it'll get
Ice Cream Sandwich in mid-February) with a 1280x800 resolution, full - size USB
port and a Tegra 2 processor.
With the right skills, you can
port Jelly Bean's Google Now over to your
Ice Cream Sandwich Android device.
Since they were built with Tegra chipsets, they make good platforms for custom versions of Android and many projects are underway to
port Ice Cream Sandwich to the entire line for those that purchased them expecting long - term support from Dell as it officially confirmed in November that the Streak 7 would not get
Ice Cream Sandwich in while the Streak 5 got its last update to Honeycomb that same month.
Because of this it may be sometime before CyanogenMod or
Ice Cream Sandwich is
ported over.
The Con's No Micro SD — but there is an SD Card Slot and its only # 12 for 16 GB Sound quality is poor, you need headphones — Mine is loud enough to be heard in another room The default music player stutters if you have too many apps open — Not since
Ice Cream Sandwich v4.0.3 Playstation Store does not have many titles available — wait till more are
ported or root it Universal Remote will prompt people to visit a wall of TV's and change all the channels — Why pay # 300 to change a wall of tv's channels?
But thankfully, an XDA - Developers forum member has come up with a way to bring Google Now to a few extra users by concocting a
port over to
Ice Cream Sandwich devices.
The K91 is a 55 - inch 3D HDTV with an IPS panel running Android
Ice Cream Sandwich with a 1.5 GHz dual - core Snapdragon APQ8060 processor, 1 GB of RAM, 8 GB of internal storage, SD card slot, 802.11 b / g / n WiFi, Ethernet prot, HDMI and USB 2.0
ports.
Some of the notable features on the NOVO 7 is a mini HDMI
port as well as two flavors of Android which are version 2.3 (Gingerbread) as well as version 4 which is the
Ice Cream Sandwich.
It's sad to see the Nexus One move into the legacy column of Android devices but it was beloved and revered and will no doubt see a
port of
Ice Cream Sandwich in some capacity thanks to the Android community.
But of those, only the Galaxy Tab 2 has an infrared
port for controlling your TV and entertainment components, and only the Tab 2 has Android 4.0
Ice Cream Sandwich (both Amazon and Barnes & Noble are using their own versions of Android, built on - top of 2.3 Gingerbread).
Now that the
Ice Cream Sandwich source code has been released, it was inevitable it would be
ported over to older devices.
The AOSP version of
Ice Cream Sandwich has been
ported to Google's previous Android flagship phone, the Nexus S. It's stable and responsive, with almost full functionality available.
Android hackers have already taken the code and begun work
porting Ice Cream Sandwich to the tablet.
EasyPad 971 9.7 ″ / 24.6 cm Tablet - PC CPU Rockchip 3066 1.5 GHz Dual Core Operating System Android 4.0 —
Ice Cream Sandwich RAM 1 GB DDR3 Internal Memory 16 GB NAND Flash Memory Expansion Micro SD / SDHC up to 32 GB Display 4:3 Capacitive 10 - point Multi-Touch-Display Resolution 1024 x 768 Pixel G - SENSOR MMA8452Q Camera Front 2.0 MP, Back 2.0 MP Bluetooth Yes 3G Support Yes — Support USB 3G MIC Yes WIFI 802.11 b / g / n (high sensitivity) Internet & Skype Phone - Function I / O
ports 1x DC In, 1x Headphone, 1x TF Card - Slot, 2x USB 2.0, 1 host, 1 OTG Video - Formats H. 264, VP8, RV, WMV, AVS, H. 263, MPEG4 etc 1080P, YouTube, 720P, HTML5, Flash 11 Office Word / Excel / PDF / PPT, Microsoft Wordpad, Microsoft SpreadExcel This software is optional and can be downloaded in the Android Market.
With this
port of
Ice Cream Sandwich to the Nokia N900, developer Alexey Roslyakov has brought the NITDroid Project one step closer to its goal of running updated Android on all Nokia Internet Tablets.
Acer Iconia Tab A510 will ship with the latest
Ice Cream Sandwich OS, 10.1» display with 1280 X 800p resolution, 1.3 GHz Tgera 3 quad - core chipset, 1GBRAM, 5MP rear camera, 32 GB eMMC, microSD card slot, HDMI
port, micro USB 2.0, DLNA, Dolby Mobile sound and more.
The tablet runs on Google Android 4.0
Ice Cream Sandwich mobile operating system, and comes with ARM Cortex A8 1 GHz processor, 1 GB RAM, 16 GB internal storage, 9.4 - inch capacitive IPS touchscreen display with 1024 x 768 pixels resolution, 0.3 - megapixel front facing webcam and 2.0 - megapixel rear camera, moreover, other specs also include USB 2.0
port, microSD card slot supporting up to 32 GB, HDMI output, and WiFi.
The HP TouchPad got a taste of Android 4.0,
Ice Cream Sandwich when the CyanogenMod team created an alpha
port of CyanogenMod 9 for the TouchPad.
The tablet runs on Google Android 4.0.3
Ice Cream Sandwich mobile operating system, and comes with a Cortex A8 1.5 GHz processor, 512 MB RAM, 4 GB internal storage, a 7 - inch capacitive 5 - point multitouch screen display, and a 2 - megapixel front facing camera, moreover, other specs also include WiFi, mini HDMI
port, USB
port, microSD card slot supporting up to 32 GB, and built - in 3200mAh rechargeable battery.
Barnes & Noble's Nook HD + runs on Google's Android 4.0
Ice Cream Sandwich OS on a completely customized user interface and software suite, packs an impressive 7 - inch LCD display with 1440 x 900 pixel resolution, a pixel density of 243 PPI, video playback up to 1080p, powered by a 1.3 GHz OMAP 4470 dual - core processor, 1 GB RAM to keep things running, 16 GB / 32 GB onboard storage, a microSD card slot for memory expansion up to 32 GB, micro USB
port, HDMI
port, Wi - Fi connectivity, 3.5 mm headset jack, battery life up to 10 hours of reading / up to 9 hours of video playback, high speed web browsing, access to newly revamped Nook Store, Nook Cloud storage, preinstalled Nook Scrapbook app, Magazine 2.0 app, and a whole host of the regular services of a Nook tablet.
Ever since Google released the source code for
Ice Cream Sandwich the community has been busy
porting it over on various Android devices.
It takes some doing, but the homebrew CyanogenMod 9 project to
port Android 4.0
Ice Cream Sandwich to...
Transformer Prime sports Transformer Prime has a 10.1 inch display, full USB and mini HDMI
ports, microSD card slot and of course it will shipped with the newly unveiled Android 4.0
Ice Cream Sandwich OS.
Toshiba Excite 7.7 ships with Android 4.0
Ice Cream Sandwich OS, sporting a 7.7 - inch Brilliant AMOLED display with 1200 X 800 pixels of resolution, protected with Gorilla Glass on front and Aluminium on back side, powered by 1.3 GHz Nvidia Tegra 3 quad - core processor, 1 GB RAM to keep things running, 5Mp rear - facing camera and an additional 1.3 MP front - facing shooter, micro USB 2.0, micro HDMI
port, a full - size SD card for memory expansion up to 32 GB, access to Google Play Store, support for Nvidia Tegra Zone, a whole host of the Google services and all the regular features of an Android tablet.
Because of thise OS choice, it also means the Fire is ripe for customization and modding (the community at XDA has already
ported somewhat working CM7 and
Ice Cream Sandwich variations at the time of this review).
Processor: 1.2 GHZ quad - core NVIDIA Tegra 3 processor Operating System: Android 4.0
Ice Cream sandwich RAM: 1 GB Storage: 8 GB, microSD card slot up to 32 GB Display: 10.1 inch Active Matrix TFT Color LCD, 1280 x 800 resolutions Camera: 8MP rear camera, 2MP front facing Audio: dual speakers, Audio Jack 3.5 mm
Port: micro USB
port, microSD card slot Connectivity: Bluetooth V2.1, WLAN 802.11 b / g / n Dimensions: 260 x 175 x 12.4 mm Weight: 712 grams Battery: 3,620 mAh Lithium Polymer (Li - Polymer) Features: Acer SocialJogger, Acer clear.fi, Documents to Go, Evernote, Google Play Service
Model: Diel Bravo Dimensions: 269 mm (H) x 171 mm (L) x 11 mm (W) Weight: 380g Operating system: Android 4.0
Ice Cream Sandwich CPU: Boxchip A10 1.5 GHz Display: 7» capacitive 800 x 480 Memory: 512 MB DDR3 Storage: 4 GB Supports microSD up to 32 GB Camera: 1.3 MP front camera Wi - Fi: 802.11 b / g Supports 3G with external dongle (not included) Interface
ports: DC in, 3,5 mm audio, microSD, USB, MiniUSB, HDMI Battery: 3,200 mAh Polymer Battery life: 3 — 4 hours with constant use Colour: black (in front) and white (behind) 6 - month warranty Package includes:
Developers were able to
port it to Sense 4 for Android 4.0 (
Ice Cream Sandwich), but the only way to get this feature was to install a custom ROM.
Where Android 3.0: Honeycomb was exclusive to tablets and
Ice Cream Sandwich attempted to
port the slicker UI over to smartphones as well, Jelly Bean is intended to smooth out the platform's remaining rough edges — while hopefully having more success at widespread adoption than its predecessor did.