After the official announcement of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS), the platform that will be released with the launch of the Galaxy Nexus, the South Korean firm Samsung (the same that has been responsible for the manufacture of the new Google flagship) has made public the list of terminals in your catalog with which the update to the new version of the green robot's operating system will begin .
In this list we find, in the first place, the most cutting-edge terminals of its line of smartphones, such as the Samsung Galaxy S2 or the Samsung Galaxy Note. Likewise, the company's next-generation tablets will also be ICS compliant. In this way, the Samsung Galaxy Tab that currently work with Android 3.0 Honeycomb (the 10.1, 8.9, 7.7 and 7.0, the latter two being models that have not yet been commercially released) will catch up with Android 4.0.
Samsung has not given clues about when the devices on the list will be able to download and install the system update, although it will certainly not be before the launch of the Galaxy Nexus, which is responsible for opening the new generation of the platform. That is, it does not seem likely that the process will take place during this month of November, so the users of these terminals, whether mobile or tablets, will have to be patients.
Perhaps you have missed one of the star devices of the firm, even if it is a previous generation: the Samsung Galaxy S. According to the statement from Samsung, it seems that in principle this terminal will not be among those that will have an official update to ICS, despite the first indications pointing in the opposite direction. It is possible that the technical specifications of Android 4.0 (which have not been made public at the moment) exceed the performance of the first Samsung Galaxy S, equipped with a one-GHz single-core processor and 512 MB of RAM.
Nevertheless, in the forum popular XDA Developers are already opened a thread where developers argue that there are already working on a ROM adapt ICS to the Galaxy Samsung S. Thus, those who have a unit of this device that is properly manipulated to be able to do manual system installations, could enjoy the latest Android in the device that has about 20 million terminals sold around the world.
