ICS upgrades for current phones and tablets?

**ezumi** · 10-09-2011, 09:46 AM

Will ICS have upgrades for current phones and tablets? ICS for HTC Incredible S? ICS for Samsung Galaxy S2 and Samsung Galaxy Tabs 10 and 7?

**DerekMorr** · 10-10-2011, 08:51 AM

What about previous Nexus devices? Will the Nexus S and Nexus One get ICS? What about the wifi-only Xoom? And in what timeframe?

**SanGo** · 10-10-2011, 09:09 AM

I'm sure the Nexus S will get it, and in a decently timely fashion. The N1 I'm not so sure about. Google might finally be moving on from the original Nexus. It's also kinda doubtful that ICS upgrades will be coming anytime soon for the current crop of phones, excluding possibly the GS2 and Evo3D. With ICS appearing to be so much more of an in-depth OS I think that adding TW and Sense will happen much further down the pipe.

**DerekMorr** · 10-10-2011, 02:26 PM

Well, when Gingerbread was released, it was two months before the Nexus One got it. That's why I'm wondering what the timeframe will be for the Nexus S or Wifi-only Xoom getting it.

I'd love to see the Nexus One get ICS, but I agree it's long in the tooth. But Apple can release iOS 5 on teh iPhone 3GS, which is the same vintage as the Nexus One....

**SanGo** · 10-10-2011, 05:03 PM

Originally Posted by DerekMorr

Well, when Gingerbread was released, it was two months before the Nexus One got it. That's why I'm wondering what the timeframe will be for the Nexus S or Wifi-only Xoom getting it.

I'd love to see the Nexus One get ICS, but I agree it's long in the tooth. But Apple can release iOS 5 on teh iPhone 3GS, which is the same vintage as the Nexus One....

True, but it's a crippled iOS 5. The 3gs never got multitasking, as far as I know. I could be very wrong on that. But do we want to run the risk of getting an inferior build of ICS on the N1 just to hold on to nostalgia?

**ElfMage83** · 10-10-2011, 05:18 PM

I realize this is a little off-topic, but does anyone know anything about Gingerbread/ICS and/or custom ROMS for LG Phoenix/Thrive? I've had my Thrive for a week and a half, but I started looking before I got it.

**kart38** · 10-10-2011, 05:18 PM

I'm still curious how ICS is going to treat the physical buttons. Will phones that get the upgrade have two sets of Home, Back, and Menu buttons? Will that be something that can be "turned off" on those phones?

I'm not too concerned about it, I'm sure my Droid Charge won't be getting it, but I'm still curious.

Jason

**TheBrizz** · 10-10-2011, 05:20 PM

The 3GS got multi-tasking; the 3G did not. Not only that, iOS 4, from what I understand, slowed the 3G to a snail's pace and made it virtually useless. From what I understand, however, Google is trying to make Ice Cream Sandwich backward-compatible with as many legacy devices as possible. I can't wait to get it on my HTC Inspire.

**Alucardsyco** · 10-10-2011, 05:21 PM

Originally Posted by SanGo

True, but it's a crippled iOS 5. The 3gs never got multitasking, as far as I know. I could be very wrong on that. But do we want to run the risk of getting an inferior build of ICS on the N1 just to hold on to nostalgia?

CM8 will give the N1 ICS if Google doesn't first.

**sep2006** · 10-10-2011, 05:21 PM

Originally Posted by SanGo

True, but it's a crippled iOS 5. The 3gs never got multitasking, as far as I know. I could be very wrong on that. But do we want to run the risk of getting an inferior build of ICS on the N1 just to hold on to nostalgia?

The 3GS did in fact get Multitasking back in iOS 4 and will get the full version of iOS 5 in 2 days.

The only thing I can see that could be "Inferior" on a N1 build is no Software Buttons and maybe a slow down

**cvgz** · 10-10-2011, 05:22 PM

Originally Posted by SanGo

True, but it's a crippled iOS 5. The 3gs never got multitasking, as far as I know. I could be very wrong on that. But do we want to run the risk of getting an inferior build of ICS on the N1 just to hold on to nostalgia?

The iPhone 4 runs with an underclocked processor running at 800 Mhz and is smoother than any build of Android due to hardware acceleration. If ICS has hardware acceleration I don't think it would be an inferior build for the N1. Phones don't need or currently utilize multiple cores, its seems the OEMs are trying to push tech and just to get smoother performance, to make up for the OS's shortcomings. If Google can bring hardware acceleration to the table 1 Ghz devices would handle ICS just fine.

Edit: The 3GS and the iPod 3rd Gen both got Apple's "multitasking". iPhone 3GS has a processor underclocked to 600 Mhz and a still competitive GPU. Thats how it keeps up.

**Nephilim_80** · 10-10-2011, 05:27 PM

People, god knows why any of you are speaking of the iPhone but all of you talking about "multi-tasking" are wrong, notice how i paranthesized "multi-tasking", that's because it is NOT actual multi-tasking, iphone (all of them 3GS and after) have pseudo-multitasking, it merely freezes a task when going to another and then unfreezes it when you return, both items never actually run at the same time (i.e true multitasking) WE, The android owners are still the only ones that have REAL multitasking.

Srsly though, who cares? ICS is gonna blow iCandy out of the water, it's not like we are not already surpassing it constantly as it is

**JDMR777** · 10-10-2011, 05:36 PM

I do hope ICS does have upgrades for current phones. My Photon 4G is not that old I hope it is able to receive the ICS upgrade.

**ninjataint** · 10-10-2011, 05:57 PM

Originally Posted by JDMR777

I do hope ICS does have upgrades for current phones. My Photon 4G is not that old I hope it is able to receive the ICS upgrade.

It will

**mrjackson#CB** · 10-10-2011, 05:58 PM

Originally Posted by dankblaze

WE, The android owners are still the only ones that have REAL multitasking.

Wrong. Blackberry has real multitasking, better than Android in my opinion.

**mdoyal1** · 10-10-2011, 06:00 PM

Originally Posted by oct2006

The 3GS did in fact get Multitasking back in iOS 4 and will get the full version of iOS 5 in 2 days.

The only thing I can see that could be "Inferior" on a N1 build is no Software Buttons and maybe a slow down

Everyone that I know with a 3GS that updated it to iOS 4 have all experienced major slowdowns in day to day performance. So its very possible that the 3GS will most likely be as slow as molasses on a cold winter morning with iOS 5.

**ChillFactorz** · 10-10-2011, 06:01 PM

I would think Google's vision of OSs would cover all previous devices, the OEMs are the ones that keep this from happening. I would like to see Google do like Microsoft did, with WP7. Not sure exactly, but I thought I read how MS created standards for the OEMs to follow. All devices essentially being the same for the WP7 OS. This showed how effective it was with the latest "Mango" release. In 10 short days the new update is already on over 20% of all WP7 devices, as compared to Gingerbread has been out for months and is only at 30 something percent. That is how an update should be released taking it out of the OEMs hands and release it to the world quicker.

Not sure if that is exactly how the MS updates work but they do seem to be more effective (20%, 10 days). Please correct me if I'm wrong, with facts, over my half baked remembering of facts.

On a side note:

Originally Posted by dankblaze

Srsly though, who cares? ICS is gonna blow iCandy out of the water, it's not like we are not already surpassing it constantly as it is

Don't say iCandy then Apple will lay claim to it, and sue Google for infringement, with the next Jelly Bean OS coming in the future.
iOS5 will then become something like "iOS Apple Pie".

Then try to get Royalties from anybody who uses "American as Apple Pie".

**SanGo** · 10-10-2011, 06:07 PM

Originally Posted by cvgz

The iPhone 4 runs with an underclocked processor running at 800 Mhz and is smoother than any build of Android due to hardware acceleration. If ICS has hardware acceleration I don't think it would be an inferior build for the N1. Phones don't need or currently utilize multiple cores, its seems the OEMs are trying to push tech and just to get smoother performance, to make up for the OS's shortcomings. If Google can bring hardware acceleration to the table 1 Ghz devices would handle ICS just fine.

Edit: The 3GS and the iPod 3rd Gen both got Apple's "multitasking". iPhone 3GS has a processor underclocked to 600 Mhz and a still competitive GPU. Thats how it keeps up.

Thank you for the correction. I completely agree that hardware acceleration would make android infinite times better, but with so many manufacturers, components, and skins, it makes it near impossible to accomplish outside of the nexus devices. As much as I do enjoy some parts of TW4.0, I wish manufacturers would do less skinning as I think it would make optimization easier.

**acstewart82** · 10-10-2011, 06:18 PM

As long as I get it on my 3vo in a timely manner after its released I'm good with whenever they decide to drop it. I just hate seeing a new os on all these phones and having to wait to get it on mine.

**jtwebfusion** · 10-10-2011, 06:19 PM

Originally Posted by Alucardsyco

CM8 will give the N1 ICS if Google doesn't first.

I second that. With carriers cutting features, I wouldn't be surprised if they(carriers) started changing for upgrades.

**jprins68** · 10-10-2011, 06:19 PM

Originally Posted by Alucardsyco

CM8 will give the N1 ICS if Google doesn't first.

ICS will be CM9. They are skipping CM8 since Honeycomb was never open sourced.

**3rdpig** · 10-10-2011, 06:23 PM

If it's a Verizon phone, expect it to take a year for them to get it properly Binged, bloated and running slow and buggy enough to pass the QC department.

**rosser** · 10-10-2011, 06:30 PM

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**conchchowder** · 10-10-2011, 06:40 PM

Originally Posted by MrJackson2k

Wrong. Blackberry has real multitasking, better than Android in my opinion.

Yeah. I want my email/service on someone's central server...and half of my device covered by buttons. Yeah. sweet. not

**Wicket** · 10-10-2011, 06:48 PM

Originally Posted by kart38

I'm still curious how ICS is going to treat the physical buttons. Will phones that get the upgrade have two sets of Home, Back, and Menu buttons? Will that be something that can be "turned off" on those phones?

I'm not too concerned about it, I'm sure my Droid Charge won't be getting it, but I'm still curious.

Jason

I'm pretty sure it'll be compatible with physical buttons and just won't have the on screen buttons. I'm pretty sure they wouldn't remove the code for physical buttons since ICS will be on the Nexus S and other newer devices. I'd imagine most of the high-end phones from this last year will see ICS eventually.