Acer has unveiled plans to begin rolling out an Android 4.0
Ice Cream Sandwich software update for two tablets soon.
And if you do want 4G LTE, we'd wait until Motorola upgrades this slate to the new
Ice Cream Sandwich software and Verizon debuts a family data plan that lets you share gigabytes between your phone and tablet.
Running on Android 4.0
Ice Cream Sandwich software, the Elevation brings Public's unlimited Siren Music service.
It's running on a customized version of Google's Android's
Ice Cream Sandwich software.
In celebration of this momentous occasion, we got to grips with the Asus tablet, running the fresher and tastier
Ice Cream Sandwich software, for a little hands - on time.
With its 1.5 GHz, dual - core TI OMAP 4 chipset, Android 4.0
Ice Cream Sandwich software, and 1 gigabyte of RAM, its the things a last - generation device are made of.
The carrier is now pushing out
the Ice Cream Sandwich software, which also includes Samsung's Premium Suite of tools to enhance the phone's digital pen.
ASUS also adds some tweaks to Google's
Ice Cream Sandwich software and bundles 8 GB of free online storage.
Not exact matches
The Galaxy S3 comes with the previous version of the
software Ice Cream Sandwich.
The Pilot's infotainment
software is based on a heavily modified version of Android
Ice Cream Sandwich — though you'd only really know that if you poke deep into the menu structure.
Fortunately, this was not the case, and not once in my time with
Ice Cream Sandwich did I ever accidentally exit out of an app because of any of the
software buttons.
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With
Ice Cream Sandwich and Jellybean on the market, many vendors are releasing firmware updates to make their
software more current and able to support tons of new features.
Last time when we talked about the Gio, you were able to flash the CyanogenMod 9
software into its system, which brought the
Ice Cream Sandwich OS on your smartphone.
Although the handset ships with Android
Ice Cream Sandwich and HTC Sense 4, it will receive a
software upgrade for Jelly Bean and Sense 4 +.
On the
software side, it runs Android
software (version 4.0, a.k.a.
Ice Cream Sandwich), but virtually nothing you see would be recognizable to an Android user.
Acer is never one for big fan fare around
software updates, so the silent roll out of
Ice Cream Sandwich onto their newly released Acer Iconia Tab A200... Android tablet isn't surprising.
What the Kindle Fire won't have is access to the Google Android Market or the latest Google
software such as Android 3.2 Honeycomb or Android 4.0
Ice Cream Sandwich.
The company says it will be rolling out a
software update bringing Google Android 4.0
Ice Cream Sandwich to its business tablet in -LSB-...]
On the
software side of things it will still be running the Android 2.3 OS out of the gates with support for
Ice Cream Sandwich down the road.
HTC has taken to their Facebook to clear the air about their Android lineup and future
software updates to
Ice Cream Sandwich.
You can hit the Samsung link below to grab their Kies
software and begin your journey to
Ice Cream Sandwich glory.
Your
software will be bumped to Android 2.3.6, version T769UVLF4 and with that the wait continues till
Ice Cream Sandwich arrives.
The Bionic was the most heavily modified of the lineup, having been based off of a combination of Motorola reference hardware and having LTE added in order to meet Verizon's requirements, though the initial lack of updates for the phone compared to its stablemates were almost exclusively the result of Motorola's Motoblur overlays and bundled
software such as Webtop, which considerably left the phone behind in terms of major updates until last October, when the
Ice Cream Sandwich update eliminated the former
software bundle and left the device with improved performance as a result.
Moving on, our takeaway is that most Android versions are leveling off their growth, likely because
Ice Cream Sandwich is on the rise with a 3.8 % upswing in updates for the latest «consumer» Android
software.
Its a safe bet that TouchWiz will provide a significant speed - bump to its upgrade
Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0), because they have to figure out how to adapt it to the new
software.
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Google on Tuesday said it is packing the best of its Honeycomb tablet computer
software into a new «
Ice Cream Sandwich» version of Android for mobile devices.
Nokia Music is no longer exclusive to Nokia Windows Phone 7 mobiles, LogMeIn releases remote mobile phone
software and HTC Android
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Already, Nvidia has released a video showing an early demo of
Ice Cream Sandwich running on the Prime, and Asus has repeatedly reaffirmed its commitment to getting the updated
software rolled out in a timely fashion.
This is because, says Google, Adobe needs to update the
software for
Ice Cream Sandwich, which has yet to happen.
Unfortunately, the
software has not yet passed final approval, so Google's own suite of apps are still missing — but Sony has confirmed that the final versions will incorporate
Ice Cream Sandwich's facial - recognition unlocking feature.
Considering Nexus phones tend to get the latest
software relatively quickly, and Android 4.0 updates are expected as early as December, we'd guess the Xoom will get
Ice Cream Sandwich sooner rather than later.
Because it's up to OEMs to update the
software for their devices and push it consumers, it could be a while before those
Ice Cream Sandwich numbers start creeping up.
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.
We know a little bit about
Ice Cream Sandwich, which seems focused on fixing a lot of the nagging issues in the Android world, like unifying its phone and tablet
software, reducing fragmentation, and adding support for some neat integrations with other hardware in the real world.
Samsung also delayed its just - leaked
Ice Cream Sandwich update for the Galaxy Note, though at least that device is getting some stylus - specific
software out of it.
Android 4.0 — aka
Ice Cream Sandwich — is such a lovely and tasteful
software update for Android phones that I'd be kicking and crying if my phone didn't have it.
In terms of
software, the Galaxy Tab 2 (7.0) runs Android 4.03
Ice Cream Sandwich, covered with the Samsung TouchWiz interface.
Combine that with the phone and tablet
software lines being reunited in
Ice Cream Sandwich, and you start to see a...
That also means Google
software updates like the upcoming Android
Ice Cream Sandwich likely won't be relevant to this device; Amazon may or may not update its OS as time goes on, but the company seems to have created its own fork, so to speak, that'll branch out independently of the main Android road.
While
software version 9.20.1.22 isn't steeped in Jelly Bean, it does take the device's
Ice Cream Sandwich build to Android 4.0.4.
As far as
software goes, the Prime will ship with Android 3.2 (Honeycomb) and will be upgraded to Android 4.0 (
Ice Cream Sandwich) shortly thereafter.
The 364 MB update takes the
software build number to 6.16.217 and brings along all the trimmings of
Ice Cream Sandwich, including such features as Face Unlock and improved multi-tasking.
Capacitive touch screen, front and rear cameras, Android 4.0 (
Ice Cream Sandwich), 802.11 n wifi, 1.2 GHz Cortex A8 processor, a premium
software suite, and content via Amazon Kindle for Android and Amazon Appstore create a great user experience.
We expect some of these things: Google tend to push out
software and then fix problems and most people won't be getting
Ice Cream Sandwich for some time.
On the
software front the Tablet P has Android 3.2 at its core (the tablet edition of Android 4.0
Ice Cream Sandwich is still some way off), and Sony has used the same subtle skin seen on the Tablet S. Again any performance impact seems minimal and additional transition animations make the navigational experience far more fluid than stock Android 3.x.
We'd also like to see Amazon introduce
Ice Cream Sandwich into its
software as well.
The
Ice Cream Sandwich beta ROM is recommended for advanced developers to install due to the complexity required to do so, and the instability of the
software.
The DROID INCREDIBLE 4G LTE uses the same fantastic 8 - megapixel camera and ImageSense
software as the One S and One X, and it also runs Android 4.0
Ice Cream Sandwich as well as the latest version of the HTC Sense 4 UI and service layer.