OS Update articles
July 11, 2012
Owners of the International unlocked GSM Galaxy Nexus should start seeing a prompt to update their phone to Android 4.1.1 (JRO03C), unfortunately those of you who purchased on contract from one of the Australian carriers you will still be required to wait for them to test the update before rolling it out. Unfortunately the factory [...]
July 4, 2012
Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 7.7 is a beautiful tablet, we reviewed it earlier this year and fell in love with it. At the time one of the only negatives was Honeycomb 3.2 holding back the full potential of the hardware. Well last night Samsung released Android 4.0.4 Ice Cream Sandwich for lucky owners in Austria, but [...]
July 4, 2012
Looks like owners of the Gingerbread running Sony Xperia S are getting some good news this morning, Sony Mobile Australia’s Facebook page has been updated to advise owners of the handset that their Ice Cream Sandwich upgrade is ready. The update to Android 4.0.4 brings features such as Lock screen with improved functionality, Resizable widgets, [...]
July 3, 2012
Just shy of 9 months after the source code release, Android 4.0.x Ice Cream Sandwich has topped 10% installation on Android devices world wide. About time too! ICS has shown a huge growth over the last 6 weeks, but it’s still only clocking in at 10.9% of the Android Market share. I believe this is [...]
June 29, 2012
Your lovely shiny new HTC One X or soon One S or One V is awesome, it runs Sense 4.0 based on Ice Cream Sandwich and you`re part of the 7%, but Google let loose Jelly Bean yesterday so when can you start tasting the new goodness? Well over at Android Central they asked just [...]
June 28, 2012
All delays aside, the Ice Cream Sandwich for the HTC Sensation on Telstra is now well and truly here. We’ve been contacted by multiple people (thank you!) who have confirmed the update has hit their devices this afternoon. While the update won’t bring you Sense 4.0 like that seen on the HTC One X and [...]
June 28, 2012
Vic Gundotra introduced the Key note and then handed over to Dave Burke to show off Project Butter. Basically a better experience in touch response. Android 4.1 is optimized for low touch latency, Jellybean adds triple buffering in the graphics pipeline, syncs touch to vsync timing and anticipates where your finger will be when the [...]
June 23, 2012
We’ve been informed by a reader that the Samsung Galaxy S on Optus is starting to receive the Android 2.3.6 “Value Pack” upgrade. Samsung’s decision to not upgrade the Galaxy S to Android 4.0 “Ice Cream Sandwich” means that the value pack upgrade is as close to it as owners are going to get to [...]
June 22, 2012
Google itself has outed the existence of a 4.1 version of Android named Jellybean via their own Devices section of the Google Play store. They are offering the HSPA+ Galaxy Nexus for $399 as they have been for a while and in the description as you can see from the screenshot, the description states “soon [...]
June 21, 2012
Vodafone has advised the details of the rollout of the latest update for the Galaxy Nexus which will take owners from 4.0.1 to 4.0.4, after approving the release they advise that Google will begin pushing the update out to phones from 1pm this afternoon. Not all devices will get the update straight away they have [...]
June 21, 2012
It’s been a pretty big morning for news on Ice Cream Sandwich updates from Motorola, unfortunately there isn’t much in the way of good news from them. They’ve advised via their Facebook Page that the ICS Upgrade has been delayed and won`t be delivered in Q2, the full statement : For those fans asking about [...]
June 21, 2012
Three weeks ago, Motorola announced on their Facebook page that they had turned the Ice Cream Sandwich update over to carriers for testing and would hopefully release it on June 21st. Well today they have announced via Facebook that the Telstra 3G Xoom will receive the udpate from today by going to Settings > About [...]
June 20, 2012
Update (9:25pm): A reader (@JM77) has pointed out the time of 25:10. This could possibly be referring to a release date of the 25th of October? Sounds good to us! This screenshot contained within the Google IO 2012 application that launched today might just be giving us a look at the subtle UI changes Android [...]
