Asus Chairman Jonney Shih did say
he expects Ice Cream Sandwich to hit tablets by the end of the year, let's hope that the Transformer Prime makes the cut in short order.
Not that anyone wasn't
expecting Ice Cream Sandwich on the Asus Transformer, but a confirmation from the company behind it is always welcomed.
To all Acer Iconia Tab A500 and A100 users, please
expect an Ice Cream Sandwich upgrade in mid-April!
The hybrid tablet netbook will ship with Android which we're assuming will be Honeycomb but Shih did affirm to Walt Mossberg that
he expects Ice Cream Sandwich to hit tablets by the end of the year — «perhaps earlier.»
Not exact matches
Milestone: Case and Estreller
expect to surpass $ 10 million in sales in 2016 and to form a strategic partnership to increase scale and streamline operations, making Coolhaus the household
ice cream sandwich brand for millennials.
Not long before this, she ate a makeshift, but enticing
ice cream churro
sandwich made by junk - food visionary David Chang, and TODAY — with 12 hours between her gold medal run and this interview to prepare a plate of prop food —
expected our Olympic queen to demean herself with these sad, sorry «
sandwiches.»
Of course, by NuVal's own system, a score of 16 or 20 is still on the low end of the nutrition scale, which is only to be
expected with Doritos and
ice cream sandwiches.
An upgrade to
Ice Cream Sandwich is
expected in the new year.»
User Interface, Hardware, and Apps The Spectrum runs Android 2.3.5 out of the box; Verizon claims users can
expect an update to Android 4.0 (
Ice Cream Sandwich) by June.
According to the update,
Ice Cream Sandwich testing has been completed and they
expect to roll out the update «very soon.»
Till then, NVIDIA has released a video of the Transformer Prime running Android 4.0
Ice Cream Sandwich, which provides a glimpse to what to
expect when Asus officially releases the ICS update.
The other
Ice Cream Sandwich features we've come to
expect, such as resizable widgets, Face Unlock, and Chrome for Android, are all present as well (though sadly not Android Beam).
Ice Cream Sandwich is
expected to bridge the gap between Android phones and tablets which have been running forked versions of Android ever since the release of Honeycomb.
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.
The Galaxy S Blaze 4G is
expected to be upgradeable to Android 4.0
Ice Cream Sandwich.
Google was
expected to announce Android 4 «
Ice Cream Sandwich» today, at CTIA Wireless Enterprise & Applications, but delayed the announcements amid the passing of Steve Jobs, and patent concerns with Samsung flagship devices.
Market watchers
expect a shift from Apple to Android devices as the
Ice Cream sandwich OS would have ability to cross over different platforms on which devices like smartphones, tablet PCs, and LCD TVs are running these days.
It currently runs on Android 3.2, but we
expect company to push
Ice Cream Sandwich update for the tablet soon.
«The next major version of Google's Android platform, codenamed
Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS), is
expected to reach the market in October or November.»
An
Ice Cream Sandwich upgrade is
expected to follow.
One is Android 3.1, the next version of the tablet optimized Honeycomb OS, and the other is
Ice Cream Sandwich, which has no version number right now but is
expected to be something like 3.5 or 4.0.
Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) is
expected sometime in 2012 Q1.
In fact, it might not be a scenario limited to only the XOOM as with the launch of the iPad3 and Google's next generation
Ice Cream Sandwich tablets scheduled later in the year, there are further price drops that can be
expected from other vendors in order to make sure that their soon to be outdated models don't get piled up.
The original tablet was based on NVIDIA's Tegra 2 platform and came installed with Android 3.1, while its successor is
expected to be based on the quad - core Tegra 3 platform and run Android
Ice Cream Sandwich, though it is yet to be confirmed.
The Taiwan based company has further stated it is
expecting tablet sales to pick up further once Android 4.0
Ice Cream Sandwich is made available.
Talking of Jelly Bean, the new the next Android mobile OS after the
Ice Cream Sandwich is also
expected to be unveiled, although some people now say that the new version is 4.1 and just an upgrade to the ICS and not Android 5.0 as previously thought.
As you'd
expect from the».1,» it's not a giant leap forward from
Ice Cream Sandwich on phones, but it brings some fairly exciting new features, major tweaks, and brings the tablet version of the OS (at least at this Nexus 7's screen size) closer to that of the smartphone.
The company is arguing that because both devices lack sufficient RAM and ROM to run
Ice Cream Sandwich, they can not be
expected to receive the update.
With the Galaxy Note 2 launch just around the corner, current intel points to a launch with
Ice Cream Sandwich — however, given that these are Samsung flagship tablet models, a Jelly Bean update is
expected to hit in the fourth quarter, if they do in fact launch with
Ice Cream Sandwich.
With Android's
Ice Cream Sandwich expected to see a launch soon, we guess it's better late than never that Verizon is finally releasing the Gingerbread update for the LG Revolution, although as to whether the LG Revolution will be seeing the
Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0 update remains to be seen.
With
Ice Cream Sandwich expected to hit several of Samsung's devices, we guess better late than never for a Gingerbread update, right?
No one, it would seem,
expects developing for
Ice Cream Sandwich to be all that different from developing for Honeycomb.
Given the
expected timing of
Ice Cream Sandwich, it's likely that the new operating system will be unveiled at the event on a Samsung device; perhaps the next Nexus phone.
The
Ice Cream Sandwich update for the Asus Eee Pad Transformer is still forthcoming, with the company
expecting it to arrive as soon as possible after the Transformer Prime's upgrade on January 12th.
It's worth remembering that this is a sneak peak preview of
Ice Cream Sandwich in a legacy HTC device, designed to give you an idea of what you can
expect when Android 4 rolls out to your device.
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.
The Flash Player needs to be updated for
Ice Cream Sandwich, which Google
expects Adobe to do even though the latter company recently halted feature updates for Flash on mobile devices.
Expect the Sunspider result to be way under 1000ms on
Ice Cream Sandwich.
We have been told that Google is looking to push up the release of
Ice Cream Sandwich devices as Apple's iPhone 5 is
expected in September or October, and the Mountain View - based company doesn't want potential customers coming out of contracts (especially original DROID owners) and «drooling over the iPhone 5.»
Boost Mobile is going prepare to launch a new Android
Ice Cream Sandwich smartphone, the ZTE Warp Sequent and
expected on September 17th.
The launch, which is
expected to feature not only a new Samsung Galaxy handset but also the latest incarnation of Android,
Ice Cream Sandwich - a point confirmed by Samsung's invite - was due to have taken place yesterday.
Owners of the original ASUS Transformer are still without
Ice Cream Sandwich despite
expected windows of January and February for its launch.
Since Moto and Verizon missed their original
Ice Cream Sandwich deadline, and later told us to
expect it in Q4, I'd say...
After promising to do right by Droid Bionic owners miffed that the planned
Ice Cream Sandwich update for the handset will miss its initial Q3 deadline, Motorola has updated their Android upgrade timeline to give a better idea of when and if users can
expect a new version of the OS for their phones.
This is an older version of the Google mobile OS which is
expected to see an update to
Ice Cream Sandwich (OS 4.0) later this year.
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.
And to top it all off, this mystery tablet is also
expected to run on Google's Android 4.0
Ice Cream Sandwich.
Google and Samsung mysteriously pulled the plug Friday on the
expected release of a new version of the Android operating system code named
Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS).
Users
expecting to experience the vastly improved interface of
Ice Cream Sandwich may want to temper those expectations, however.
One of the first phones
expected to run
Ice Cream Sandwich could be the rumored Nexus Prime handset manufactured by Samsung.