Android 4.0 ROMs available for 30+ Android devices

Android 4.0 on the Google Nexus One

In the two weeks since Google released the source code for Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, we’ve seen dozens of ports of Google’s latest operating system pop up. Independent developers have brought builds of Android 4.0 to the Google Nexus One, HTC HD2, and even the original Android phone, the G1. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Android Allies has put together a… Read more »

Google will release Android 4.0 source code “once it’s available on devices”

Ice Cream Sandwich

Google’s Dan Morrill has confirmed that the company will be releasing the source code for Google Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. The company is just waiting until it’s “available on devices,” which means that sometime after the Samsung Galaxy Nexus starts shipping in November we should see the source code released. It used to go without saying that Google would release the source for each… Read more »

Android 4.0 will let you disable apps — even if they came with your phone

Ice Cream Sandwich apps

The new version of Google Android which will come with the Samsung Galaxy Nexus and other future Android phones and tablets comes with a ton of new features. Google touched on some of the highlights at a press event last night, including a facial recognition app for unlocking your phone, improved speech-to-text, and a vastly improved contacts app called People. But there are also a… Read more »

Google Android Ice Cream Sandwich launch coming October 18th

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Google and Samsung are holding an event in Hong Kong on October 19th to introduce the next major update to the Android operating system, as well as at least one of the first phones that will run it. Since Hong Kong is all the way on the other side of the world, the event will actually take place at 10:00 at night on October 18th… Read more »

Leaked video show Galaxy Nexus, Ice Cream Sandwich — but Samsung postpones launch event

Samsung Galaxy Nexus

Samsung and Google had palnned an event for October 11th where the companies were widely expected to unveil a new Google Nexus phone, which would be the first phone designed to run Google Android Ice Cream Sandwich. The updated operating system is the first version of Android designed to be equally at home on pocketable smartphones and larger tablets. Over the last few months we’ve… Read more »

Google Android Ice Cream Sandwich demoed thanks to an accidental leak

Nexus S with ICS

Google is expected to launch the next version of Android soon… possibly as soon as October 11th, when Samsung and Google will hold a joint event on the eve of the CTIA trade show. The newest version of Android, which is code-named Ice Cream Sandwich, will be the first designed to run on both tablets and smartphones — and it will bring many of Android… Read more »

Google Android Ice Cream Sandwich coming in October or November?

Ice Cream Sandwich

This shouldn’t come as a huge shock, since Google had pretty much already promised that the next major version of Android would be available by the end of the year, but Google chairman Eric Schmidt has now pretty much confirmed that we’ll see Google Android Ice Cream Sandwich in October or November. I guess that kind of rules out September or December, then. Ice Cream Sandwich is… Read more »

First look at Google Android Ice Cream Sandwich

Ice Cream Sandwich

Google has already promised that the next major version of the Android operating system, code-named Ice Cream Sandwich, would be the first designed to run on both phones and tablets, combining some of the features of Android 2.x and Android 3.x and sprinkling in a few of its own. But that’s about all Google has said on the matter so far. Now the folks at… Read more »