Sprint began to push out the latest version of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich to owners of the Nexus S 4G last week. As exciting as that is, some of you may still be waiting for the update to reach your device. There’s no need to wait on Sprint of you don’t want to. All you need is the full over-the-air update file which is now conveniently available to everyone.
Tag: ICS
Gameloft games need a lot of work before the official release of Ice Cream Sandwich for the Xperia Play
Attention gamers! Summer is approaching and the temperature is rising. It will soon be time to chill on the beach with your favorite games and a nice cold ice cream sandwich…. Good thing there’s still time for Xperia Play owners as a number of Gameloft titles require a lot of work.
Good news everyone! You no longer need to hack your Nexus S 4G to get Ice Cream Sandwich. Sprint has begun pushing the update to handsets as I write this. Check your phone to see if there’s an update notification trying to get your attention. You can also manually check for the update from the settings menu.
Sony recently started allowing developers and Android tinkerers in general to download a beta Ice Cream Sandwich ROM for the Xperia Play. Sony is specifically looking for feedback on how well the games on the Xperia Play run on the new operating system. Sony is taking all that data and using it to make the official ICS update for the Xperia Play as stable as possible.
Last week we reported on the fact that Tegra 3 quad-core phones would be shipping this quarter. Along with that information came details about the codenamed “Grey” project which was the Icera Modem (3G/LTE radio) being integrated into Tegra chipsets.
Good news for all you SoulCraft THD players out there who were playing the game before your Asus Transformer Prime, or any other device running Ice Cream Sandwich for that matter, got the Android 4.0 update, it now works with Ice Cream Sandwich.
One of the first items we walked right into when the doors open yesterday was the Intel booth and there they had a prototype of their upcoming Intel Android tablet. Coming from Lenovo, this particular tablet will be running Ice Cream Sandwich when it is released.
Huawei has unveiled two new Android phones today called the Ascend P1 and Ascend P1 S, one of which is labeled as the world’s thinnest smartphone, at least for today. Considering this is CES we are sure there will be others touting their new devices under the same label of being the thinnest.
Usually when you get a new piece of technology or one that is updated at least in terms of software, you don’t expect to witness a regression in quality when it comes to playing games or using apps. Unfortunately though it seems as though owners of Android devices sporting the new Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0) are experiencing just that.
Yesterday we reported on the fact that the Asus Transformer Prime comes with a locked and encrypted bootloader, making many people in the modding world rather annoyed to say the least. Whether it is to use ROMs, develop them or whatever else you want to do with a rooted Transformer Prime, a locked bootloader which is encrypted makes things very difficult.