Ice Cream Sandwich coming in October/November...

[Walter E Kurtz]

Eric Schmidt: Ice Cream Sandwich coming in October or November -- Engadget

What does that mean for us? Will we be getting the update? Is there an info page anywhere that says what is in the update?

 

[Dreamliner330]

I would be beyond amazed if the Photon doesn't get it. It may take till December/January (Moto has to add their 'Application Platform' and Sprint has to approve it, but I think it will be on the Photon.

 

[sjamie]

We'll see...

 

[Photon4glover]

I hope so

 

[thinknate]

I would be beyond amazed if the Photon doesn't get it. It may take till December/January (Moto has to add their 'Application Platform' and Sprint has to approve it, but I think it will be on the Photon.

I don't share your optimism that we'll get the update. And I will bet you any amount of money that it does not appear on the Photon by December/January!

 

[LeaninBack916]

Yeah I don't really forsee it coming that soon. Instead, just like others phones have, I would hope the ROM creators out there would have a ROM with ICS that we can use. Currently, the ROM development has me extremely disheartened.

 

[cboekhoven]

I don't share your optimism that we'll get the update. And I will bet you any amount of money that it does not appear on the Photon by December/January!

I share his optimism. Remember google said at I/O that all new devices get updated for 18 months after release? Since they now own Moto, I wouldn't doubt that the photon will get it. But I won't guess on when

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[Bushido Brown]

Well with the bootloader compromised, and the source code available, its a very strong chance that we could see some ICS based ROMS by then.

 

[Walter E Kurtz]

Well with the bootloader compromised, and the source code available, its a very strong chance that we could see some ICS based ROMS by then.

Do you just mean the dev community will program the update to work with the photon, then release it as a DL to people who have their phone rooted? Or does rooting not have anything to do with it?

My thinking was with Google's acquisition of Moto, their phones would get the priority with updates, kind of like iOS devices get the updates right away (of course) because Apple owns the hardware. Now that Google owns the hardware they will release the update and even cater to Moto's hardware.

 

[Photon4glover]

Do you just mean the dev community will program the update to work with the photon, then release it as a DL to people who have their phone rooted? Or does rooting not have anything to do with it?

My thinking was with Google's acquisition of Moto, their phones would get the priority with updates, kind of like iOS devices get the updates right away (of course) because Apple owns the hardware. Now that Google owns the hardware they will release the update and even cater to Moto's hardware.

I completely agree. sent from my mopho

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