ICS upgrades for current phones and tablets?

[Sered]

You must be forgetting webOS...best multi-tasking around.

Same as Android, both are POSIX at the core.

 

[Sered]

BES has nothing to do with multi-tasking. And I never said Blackberry is better than Android, only that the multi-tasking part is.

How many of you use gmail and google chat and google voice on your phones? What happens when Google has a meltdown (unlikely but it could happen)? The same thing that happens when BES goes down.

Android fanboys are almost worse than apple ones...

So my activesync email is routed through Google?

You think Google could have a meltdown? They've probably got the most stable online presence in the world by multiple factors of 10. Google is a bit more than a search engine and a mobile OS developer.

 

[mrjackson#CB]

And how is it better than the native P-thread support that Android brings to the table?

Blackberry doesn't close things on me when it thinks I'm done with it.
I have more control of what stays open.

 

[Tripsyk]

Seeing as how Gingerbread just got rolled out to most of the phones within the past few months, I wouldn't be surprised if everyone has to wait another 6+ months after release to get ICS.

 

[Arelem]

OK, after spending about an hour, off and on, going through this thread, I still haven't seen anyone answer the original question, "Will there be ICS upgrades for current phones and tablets". All everyone has talked or speculated on is individual, specific phones/tablets.

Is Android like a computer desktop OS that, at certain revs, you need to replace equipment to get the new version because the old equipment can't handle it? Can someone with a current phone running 2.2, update it to 4.0/ICS, regardless of whether the manufacturer/provider does or doesn't "do" upgrades?

Thanks.

 

[rkirmeier]

And how is it better than the native P-thread support that Android brings to the table?

Yep, I don't get why some people think WebOS multi-tasking is so wonderful. I had a Palm Pre and have a TouchPad. IMO, the cards are just a waste of time and effort. Why some people think you need application cards up in your face for the device to be a true multi-tasking OS beats me! Just because an application is not being presented in a visual card does not means it's not multi-tasking. On WebOS I find myself "thinking" is the app open, should I swipe the cards to see if it is. And if not then I just go find the icon which is nested in a stupid folder. On Android I just hit Home then hit the icon I have on the desktop. If the app is already open or not I get the app, it of course maximizes faster when already running. Now on Android a developer can write ANY application to be a service which keep the OS from shutting it down to reclaim resources which in Gingerbread can be a little aggressive but keeps devices with low memory running nice and fast. On WebOS if you open to many apps the device gets slow and you have to manually close them. This old school multi-tasking like Windows, smartphones should be designed to forget about what is and is not running. Just use it, let the OS manage the running apps. And I would much rather have my apps run in the back ground then have the OS "freeeze" them like iOS! The only thing I would liek Android to do is provide an easy way to kill/close and app like CM7 does (hold Home button while the app). Sometime I may want to manually close an app without having to drill into the settings/manage applications. My SGSII makes that easier with a easy to access task manager.

 

[droidjosh]

I just wish there was a way we could manually install stock ICS on any phone running Gingerbread 2.3.3 and up. Google would kill apple in a matter of months of that was the case. I expect ICS for the Galaxy Tab 10.1 within 2 months or I will be very upset with Samsung and Google in general. I have a Droid X and I don't expect it to get ICS ever...

 

[rkirmeier]

There will be... You just need to root your phone! CM9 will certainly be available on Droid X. Nothing will ever kill Apple cause there are just too many brain washed Apple fan boyz. The truth is we want apple to stick around as competition is good for everyone!

 

[frmorrison]

Competition is good, since iPhone copies Android and vice versa.
CM team requires Android to be open source before they can port it, so we have to hope that it will be released soon.

 

[Puzzlegal]

Yep, I don't get why some people think WebOS multi-tasking is so wonderful. I had a Palm Pre and have a TouchPad. IMO, the cards are just a waste of time and effort. Why some people think you need application cards up in your face for the device to be a true multi-tasking OS beats me! Just because an application is not being presented in a visual card does not means it's not multi-tasking. On WebOS I find myself "thinking" is the app open, should I swipe the cards to see if it is. And if not then I just go find the icon which is nested in a stupid folder. On Android I just hit Home then hit the icon I have on the desktop. If the app is already open or not I get the app, it of course maximizes faster when already running. Now on Android a developer can write ANY application to be a service which keep the OS from shutting it down to reclaim resources which in Gingerbread can be a little aggressive but keeps devices with low memory running nice and fast. On WebOS if you open to many apps the device gets slow and you have to manually close them. This old school multi-tasking like Windows, smartphones should be designed to forget about what is and is not running. Just use it, let the OS manage the running apps. And I would much rather have my apps run in the back ground then have the OS "freeeze" them like iOS! The only thing I would liek Android to do is provide an easy way to kill/close and app like CM7 does (hold Home button while the app). Sometime I may want to manually close an app without having to drill into the settings/manage applications. My SGSII makes that easier with a easy to access task manager.

I miss the cards from my Pre all the time. I miss that I could flip over and see a bit of info -- effectively I had a larger screen. Maybe if my memory were better that wouldn't matter, but it drives me up a wall that I can't flip back and forth between two emails, for instance.

I also miss having control over when an app closes. Nothing like losing all your progress in a game because the OS decided you don't ened it any more.

To each is own. My Photon is way better than my Pre was in many ways, but multitasking is NOT one of those ways. The Pre had a more elegant and intitutive interface with better multitasking.