Ice cream sandwich.....those in the know please explain

[cordsig79]

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Hi everybody......recently i saw this article.........does this mean anything for us?

Recently I did download the honeycomb app for the G2x and its supposedly imitates honeycomb.

Its very intiuitive and set up quite well but I do miss the wifi button etc... so I may revert back to gingerbread only.

 

[lindel]

I doubt that it means much for us from a T-Mobile/LG aspect. When ICS gets released, our devs for the G2x will surely pounce on it and whip up something cold and sweet for us. But don't look to T-Mobile/LG to do anything with it.

 

[wezra]

I am not sure the G2x hardware can handle ICS. I keep reading these articles that refer to the hardware in certain phones not being able to handle ICS. I suspect they are talking about the chip and other internals that don't have the capability to work with the software.

A good example is my iMac. It is several generations old (about 3 1/2 years to be exact). It has a dual-core Intel chip in it with 3 gigs of internal memory and a 250 gig hard drive. I use Boot Camp to partition the drive and have Windows XP on the drive. All that said, my Intel chip can't handle Windows 7 so I am stuck with XP. If I want to move to Windows 7 it will mean a move to a newer iMac. I suspect the same is with the G2x, it was built around Gingerbread and that is it. As much as I like the G2x I am thinking of moving back to an HTC phone sometime in January. I just don't see LG as being very proactive with phone updates. The G2x still needs another update to take care of some of the glitches left over from 2,2 but I suspect we have seen all the updates to the G2x that we will ever see. It was a pure vanilla androide phone that was never meant for the masses and it didn't sell well enough to garner any further attention from LG or T-Mobile.

 

[lindel]

Our phones use a lot of the same hardware used in tablets, I don't imagine that ICS would be too big a step for us.

As far as runnning windows 7, I was running it on a notebook when it was in beta, and that laptop was about 3 years old at the time. Pentium M (read gassed up pentium 3) with 2 GB and a 160BG hard drive. Ran fine, at least as fast as XP.

 

[hawklet00]

I doubt that it means much for us from a T-Mobile/LG aspect. When ICS gets released, our devs for the G2x will surely pounce on it and whip up something cold and sweet for us. But don't look to T-Mobile/LG to do anything with it.

yeah, look to cyanogen or any of the other well known devs to cook up a ics rom that will work with our phne if tmo or lg drops the ball on this (which will most likely happen)

 

[cordsig79]

I am not sure the G2x hardware can handle ICS. I keep reading these articles that refer to the hardware in certain phones not being able to handle ICS. I suspect they are talking about the chip and other internals that don't have the capability to work with the software.

A good example is my iMac. It is several generations old (about 3 1/2 years to be exact). It has a dual-core Intel chip in it with 3 gigs of internal memory and a 250 gig hard drive. I use Boot Camp to partition the drive and have Windows XP on the drive. All that said, my Intel chip can't handle Windows 7 so I am stuck with XP. If I want to move to Windows 7 it will mean a move to a newer iMac. I suspect the same is with the G2x, it was built around Gingerbread and that is it. As much as I like the G2x I am thinking of moving back to an HTC phone sometime in January. I just don't see LG as being very proactive with phone updates. The G2x still needs another update to take care of some of the glitches left over from 2,2 but I suspect we have seen all the updates to the G2x that we will ever see. It was a pure vanilla androide phone that was never meant for the masses and it didn't sell well enough to garner any further attention from LG or T-Mobile.

Fuzion would help?

 

[rizzman]

Yeah right.....we will never officially see ICS on our devices. But then again it is nice to dream. Between LG and TMO they will surely find a way to hold this up. Never again buying an LG smartphone. Dumbphone yes....anything with an IQ north of 70 no.

 

[JFetch]

The hardware is more than capable, but LG gave up on the G2x a long time ago. I'm another one that will never buy another LG phone.

 

[rizzman]

The hardware is more than capable, but LG gave up on the G2x a long time ago. I'm another one that will never buy another LG phone.

Yep...No more LG smartphones for me. Good phones but horrible support from the co. I feel like once they push out a device that is it on to the next one and f... everyone that might have a problem with the last device. And again I am not complaining about ICS cause I know not to buy a phone for future updates, but geez at least push out an update to fix the lingering bugs that still plague the device even with GB. That is all I want, and I do not think that is too much to ask. But I learned my lesson. Fool me once shame on you, twice shame on me.