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.
A number of vendors have preparing for sending Android 4.0 updates to their gadgets. But too bad for Samsung Galaxy S first version owners, the gadget wont be having the Android 4.0 operating system with the nick name of Ice Cream Sandwich.
Samsung said that the unavailability of Android 4.0 for the old version of Galaxy S is because the phone isn’t strong enough in term of RAM and ROM to run the OS. Especially when collaborated with TouchWiz and other applications. The Galaxy S is quite successful in the market with 10 million unit sales, that bought the Samsung name to the top smartphone competition. Until finally Samsung releases the Galaxy S II as the upgrade, with better performance and specifications and can run Android 4.0. Galaxy S II and Galaxy Note are the first Samsung gadgets -after Galaxy Nexus- that will taste the Ice Cream Sandwich. And following behind them are Galaxy R, Galaxy Tab 10.1, Galaxy Tab 8.9, Galaxy Tab 7.7, and Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus. Samsung will separately announced the schedule of the OS updates for every market according on the situation and operator’s terms. The first Android 4.0 was used in Galaxy Nexus, the handset made with collaboration of Google and Samsung. While the availability on other handsets will be depending on the policy of each vendors. Beside Samsung, several top Android vendors have also promise the Android Ice Cream Sandwich update in most of their handsets, including LG, Sony Ericsson, and HTC. Ice Cream Sandwich was designed by Google to be used both in smartphones or tablet PCs. One of the flagship feature is the Face Unlock, a face recognition feature, so that user can unlock their phone simply by showing their face to the handset’s camera.
Samsung announced that several of their handsets will receive an official upgrades Android 4.0 or Ice Cream Sandwich in early 2012. The Ice Cream Sandwich is the latest version of Android operating system that carries several significant added features.
The models that will be having Ice Cream Sandwich in early 2012 are the Galaxy Note and Galaxy S II. And then following behind them gradually, Galaxy R, Galaxy Tab 10.1, Galaxy Tab 8.9, Galaxy Tab 7.7 and Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus. Samsung will make a separate announcement on OS updates for every market according to the situation there and the operator’s terms. Android 4.0 was first used in Galaxy Nexus, handset created in a cooperation between Google and Samsung. As for the availability on other handsets are depending on the policy of each vendors. Besides from Samsung, several top vendors have promised Android Ice Cream Sandwich to become a part of their handsets, including LG, Sony Ericsson and HTC. Ice Cream Sandwich were designed by Google to be used on smartphones and tablets. One of their flagship feature is the Face Unlock, a face recognition feature, so that users can unlock their phones just by showing their face to the camera handset.
