Samsung has announced the Galaxy Ace Plus Android smartphone. It’s a lower-end model that improves upon the original Galaxy Ace with a slightly faster 1GHz processor and larger 3.65-inch display. Unfortunately, it still features a low resolution display for today’s standards and the battery capacity has been reduced a bit. The GALAXY Ace Plus...
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ASUS is in the process of pushing out a minor maintenance update for the Transformer Prime Android tablet. The 8.8.3.33 build won’t update the popular tablet to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, but it does include improvements for the camera focus, touch screen, and GPS speeds. You can either wait for the automatic update...
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Over the busy Christmas weekend, Samsung attempted to slyly inform their Galaxy S and Galaxy Tab users that they would not be receiving an upgrade to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. The strategy to make the announcement during one of the busiest holidays of the year didn’t go unnoticed, as many customers were quite...
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Like Samsung and Sony, LG has revealed their Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich upgrade schedule for the new year. The Korean manufacturer will offer ICS updates in Q2 and Q3 of 2012. Check out their official statement below to see if your device is on the list. During the second quarter of 2012 upgrades...
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While Samsung confirmed last week that the Galaxy S II and Galaxy Note would get updated to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich in Q1 of 2012, legacy Galaxy users were still awaiting news about the future of their devices. Unfortunately, Samsung finally made the announcement we were all expecting: no Android 4.0 Ice Cream...
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Sprint has started rolling out a significant update for the HTC EVO View 4G tablet. The 2.23.651.1 upgrade transforms the Android tablet’s software from Gingerbread to Honeycomb. The automatic update process begins today, December 22nd, but you can also ping it manually through the settings menu. Check out the change log below. HTC EVO...
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XDA member robocik has released an early Android 4.0.1 Ice Cream Sandwich build for the HTC Sensation. What’s interesting here is that we get a glimpse of the ICS-optimized version of HTC Sense UI. For the most part, at least the parts we’ve seen here, it looks nearly identical to the Sense of old....
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Last week, Sony Ericsson released an Alpha ROM with an early build of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich for some of their Xperia smartphones. This week, they’ve revealed their official ICS update path for 2012. Beginning in late March and early April next year, updates will be pushed out to the Xperia Arc S,...
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Samsung announced today that they will release Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich updates for the Galaxy S II and Galaxy Note in Q1 of 2012. 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...
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Verizon is rolling out a maintenance update for the Motorola DROID RAZR Android smartphone. The 6.11.747 update is comprised of mainly bug fixes and performance improvements. If you haven’t received an automatic update notification yet, you can trigger it manually through Settings > About phone > System updates > Download. Check out the change...
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Google Nexus S owners have been sitting idly by as they watched the Galaxy Nexus launch as the first smartphone pre-loaded with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. Well, there’s good news for those loyal and patient Nexus S users. Google has announced that the Nexus S will receive an update to Ice Cream Sandwich...
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While Android 4.0.2 just rolled out for the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, it looks like Google is all set to release the next maintenance update. Today, Google announced Android 4.0.3. It mainly offers performance improvements and bug fixes for ICS-powered smartphones and tablets, but also delivers some new APIs (now at level 15) for developers....
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Sony Ericsson just reached out to the developer community in an impressive manner by releasing an early build of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich for the Xperia Arc, Xperia Arc S, Xperia Neo V and Xperia Ray. The Alpha ROM is not ready for every day use, especially since you can’t make calls with...
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The Verizon-branded Samsung Galaxy Nexus has only been out for hours and it’s already receiving a software update. The ICL53F OTA update is comprised mostly of bug fixes and enhancements, but it’s one you’ll likely want to apply once you get your device. You’ll receive an automatic update notification or you can trigger it...
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A new version of the Android Market is currently rolling out to devices. You’ll eventually get it automatically on your device, but if you’d like to skip the wait and get it now, head over to multi-upload for the Android Market build 3.4.4 APK file. The most noticeable difference between this version and the...
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