Amazon equipped the Kindle Fire tablet with Android OS that they have specially modified. But it seems that somebody out there that have manage to port the standard version of Android into this Amazon tablet. After able to be immersed with Android Gingerbread, it turns out that Android 4.0 or Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) can also run on Kindle Fire. Even though its not yet perfect, but this fact has proved that Kindle Fire is ready for ICS.
The trials ICS in Kindle Fire were done by several members of XDA developers. But the features aren’t complete yet and its not quite responsive to touches, not like in most ICS tablets. At least, its a first step for Kindle Fire developers to modified the OS in the tablet and replace it with the new version of Android. With the price tag of US$ 199, the Kindle Fire is predicted to continue to grow and demanded by users. Moreover with the open of Kindle Fire to be installed with a standard version of Android, both Gingerbread and Ice Cream Sandwich, this will surely makes this Amazon tablet sold.
Big vendors began to announce the detailed schedule for the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich upgrades. This time its the South Korean vendor, LG Electronics. A total of 11 ‘green robot’ smartphone from LG will have the upgrade of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. The upgrade is scheduled to start on the second quarter until the third quarter of 2012.
in the second quarter of 2012, the upgrade will start for the models LG Optimus LTE, Prada phone by LG 3.0, LG Optimus 2X, LG Optimus Sol, LG my Touch Q, and LG Eclipse. In the third quarter, the upgrade is continued for the models LG Optimus 3D, LG Optius Black, LG Optimus Big, LG Optimus Q2, and LG Optimus EX. The exact date can be variate depending on the market, since each countries have different terms, depending on the operator and the smartphone models. Beside LG, several top Android vendors have also promised upgrades to Android Ice Cream Sandwich for their handsets, including Samsung, Sony Ericsson, and HTC. Ice Cream Sandwich was designed by Google to be used in smartphones or tablet PCs. One of the flagship feature is the Face Unlock, a face recognition feature where users can unlock their gadget just by facing their face to the gadget’s camera.
Microsoft reach a new milestone achievement for their new Windows Phone platform, their applications is now reported to have exceeded 50,000. Microsoft said that this achievement is faster than what they have predicted. It only takes 14 mounths to reach 50,000 applications.
As a comparison, Android needed 19 months to reach that number, while iOS needed a whole year to reach that number. But Microsoft emphasize that like other application store, the number 50,000 is not the same as the application available for the consumers. From the 50,126 applications in the Marketplace, there are around 6,000 applications are no longer available. This means that the applications that can be downloaded by the consumers are lesser than the items published. The unavailability of thousands of applications mention above is because the withdrawal from Microsoft or from the developers them selves. Microsoft describes that there are two strong reasons that levers the availability of application by the developers, the first is the increasing availability of Windows Phone Marketplace and the release of first Nokia phone with Windows Phone based.
Samsung is playing harder on the dual SIM phone market. Not only in low end class, even one of their high end phone, Galaxy S II is also available in dual SIM version.
Galaxy S II Duos, that’s the name of the handset. For now, the gadget is only available in China. Maybe its because the huge market for dual SIM phone there. Physically, the Galaxy S II Duos is similar to the Galaxy S II that were bundled with T Mobile in the US. Galaxy S II does come in many versions, but they are quite similar in terms of specifications. The Galaxy S II Duos have the same exact specifications with the regular edition, it has 8 MP camera, Super Amoled Plus screen and dual core 1,2 GHz processor. Samsung is pretty consistent to produce dual SIM phiones, recently, this South Korean vendor have also introduced the Galaxy Y Duos and Galaxy Y Pro Duos.
