Android 4 Ice Cream Sandwich Upgrades

Anthony Caruana
Monday, 23 January 2012 09:31

Your IT - Mobility

If you have a fairly recent Android smartphone or tablet running Gingerbread or Honeycomb you might be wondering if an upgrade to Android 4, also known as Ice Cream Sandwich, is in your future. We take a look at what's in store.

Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) represents a giant leap forward. It's not just better than Gingerbread and Honeycomb - it's the best mobile OS we've used in terms of usability, flexibility, application support and appearance. We were very impressed during our recent review of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus.

HTC

HTC has made an offical statement saying that he HTC Sensation, HTC Sensation XL and HTC Sensation XE, HTC Rezound (US Only), HTC EVO 3D, HTC EVO Design 4G (US Only) and HTC Amaze 4G (US Only).

Given the significant changes made with ICS it's not surprising that the update is only coming to devices released in the latter part of 2011. HTC says the upgrades will be coming during the first part of 2012 so we're waiting with baited breath.

We're worndering whether HTC Sense still has a future in an ICS world or whether Android 4 overcomes the deficiencies that HTC Sense resolved.