Users of Samsung’s flagship smartphone Samsung Galaxy S II in the United Kingdom are now able to get the device’s latest software update. Korean electronics giant Samsung has started rolling out the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update to Galaxy S II smartphone users who are signed up to the Three network. The provider has made the update available through...
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Samsung Galaxy S II owners have been waiting very long for March 10, the day set by Samsung to release the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich upgrade to users of its flagship smartphone. What’s disappointing was, the day came and there was no upgrade. According to a report by tech website Engadget, Samsung has informed users of its Galaxy S II smartphone that the latest...
A joint Google-Samsung event, which was delayed out of respect for Apple co-founder Steve Jobs’ passing, has been delayed to October 19. The event, which will be held in Hong Kong, is expected to include the unveiling of the new Google Android OS version, the Ice Cream Sandwich. Samsung is also said to launch a new device, possibly the new Google smartphone, the...
Now that the fuss and hullaballoo is settling down over the Apple iPhone 4S we were thinking that the Android Ice Cream Sandwich launch was going to bring us, well, more fuss and hullaballoo to be honest. It seems that isn’t not to be though. The operation system was set to be revealed to the world at the Samsung Mobile Unpacked event in San Diego next week but it has...
The Samsung Nexus Prime, the first Android smartphone that sports Google’s Android Ice Cream Sandwich operating system, has been reported to head to all carriers. The next Google phone has been spotted by people from The Droid Guy at the Verizon Developer conference in Las Vegas. They stumbled upon a man, identifying himself to be a Samsung employee, who was playing...
At the Google I/O, the company told the world that its next release of a new Android version, Android Ice Cream Sandwich, would be at some point during the fourth quarter of 2011. When Google announced that, many speculated that it will touch down in November or December, with the launch of a new Nexus device, in time for the holiday season. While it is certainly possible,...
More than half a million Android devices are activated every day, and growth in gadgets running the Google-developed software is increasing weekly, according to a tweet from Google Android chief Andy Rubin. “There are now over 500,000 Android devices activated every day,” tweeted Rubin. Rubin’s announcement came seven months after he announced that 300,000...
News surfaced a while back that Google is working on a new Nexus phone. Now, according to reports, Google’s first phone that will run the Android Ice Cream Sandwich OS will be called ‘Nexus Prime,’ and will be manufactured by Samsung, kind of sounds like a Transformers robot – which is obviously cool. According to reports, the display will feature...
After much speculation surrounding the next version of Android it seems that a Google software engineer has let the cat out of the bag by naming it in an update to developers. As predicted it will be called Ice Cream Sandwich – another tasty treat that follows the alphabetical trend set by previous versions. Romain Guy was simply responding to a question in the...
The team at Google has been very busy of late, what with their space programme and recent launch of Android Gingerbread and the tablet based Honeycomb OS. Unfortunately honeycomb was built for tablets and not smart phones so Google has supposedly taken the decision to launch Ice Cream Sandwich, AKA Android 2.4. This new os is claimed to possess some of the new features...