Googe Android 4 0 Ice Cream System Requirements

I do not have any information on the system requirements for the next version of Googles Android 4.0 OS, code named Ice Cream Sandwich. This operating system will unify Android 2.x designed for smartphone with Android 3.x designed for tablets.

However, I was pretty certain that Ice Cream Sandwich would require a dual core processor. Phone Arena reported a very interesting piece of information:

All of the current generation of Sony Ericsson Xperia models including the Xperia arc and the Xperia ray will be updated to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS), a London-based representative of the Swedish-Japanese JV confirmed for SoMobile.

The Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc has very modest hardware by todays standards, a single core 1GHz Scorpion processor and Adreno 205 graphics and 512MB of RAM. The Sony Ericsson Xperia Ray has nearly identical specifications. 

If the Arc and Ray can be updated to Ice Cream Sandwich, than so can a whole bunch of phones released back in 2010. I am keeping my fingers crossed on this one.

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Galaxy S2 Ice Cream Sandwich Update

Hi all, everyone is waiting in great anticipation for our beloved Galaxy S2 to finally get updated to Ice Cream Sandwich, which is version 4.0.3 of the Android Operating system.

Edit: On 7 April, heres how the ICS updates are coming along:

• Australia
• Austria
• Belgium
• China
• Cyprus CYO, CYV
• Denmark
• Hong Kong TGY
• Hungary XEH (unlocked)
• Indonesia
• Ireland (Three)
• Italy is busy updating (means theyre testing, will be soon now!)
• Korea
• Lithuania
• Luxemberg
• Netherlands also busy updating
• Philippines (XTC, GLB)
• Poland XEO
• Russia SER
• Sweden (Tre)
• Taiwan
• UK (Orange, O2, T-Mobile and Vodafone) busy updating
• UK (unlocked) busy updating
• UK (Three)
• Nordic Countries NEE (Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Iceland, Greenland)

I just checked here as well, and we South Africans are definitely not on the list either :(

Edit: Thanks Philipp, he phoned Samsung South Africa, and it seems were only getting ICS the end of April here in SA. That sucks!

If you live in the one of the above countries, and you have updated your phone, please leave some comments and tell us your experiences so far :)

Will keep everyone posted!

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