On October 19th when Google announced the next version of Android,
codenamed Ice Cream Sandwich, you could feel the panic that HTC,
Motorola, Samsung, and others started experiencing. They’d now have to
worry about porting Android 4.0 to their existing portfolio of devices, a
process that can take months. Any subsequent Android device announced
after October 19th that wasn’t running ICS immediately lost our respect,
and our reviews reflected that. Huawei and Sony Ericsson were ballsy
enough to let their users try out ICS on their devices by issuing demo
ROMs, but we all know that such a move was nothing more than a marketing
stunt. Back in their respective offices they were both looking at
Google’s source code and trying to figure out where they could add some
sort of differentiation so that their hardware stands out from
everything else on the market. Sad as it may seem, the Galaxy Nexus may
very well be the sole device that runs stock Android ICS.
Depressing
realization aside, if you’re using an Android smartphone made by
Samsung, and chances are it’s the Samsung Galaxy S II or one of the many
variants of it, then you’re probably thinking to yourself when am I
going to get an update to ICS? Today, Samsung made that abundantly clear
on their corporate blog:
Samsung Electronics plan to provide the
Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update for GALAXY devices. The platform
update for Galaxy S II and GALAXY Note will start in the first quarter
2012, and other GALAXY devices will soon follow.
The
ICS-upgradable devices are the Galaxy S II, GALAXY S II LTE, GALAXY
Note, GALAXY R, GALAXY Tab 10.1, GALAXY Tab 8.9, GALAXY Tab 7.7, and
GALAXY Tab 7.0 Plus.
We’ll stay on top of this since something
tells us that Samsung isn’t going to use any of the new user interaction
models introduced in ICS. They really know how to break our hearts.
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