Motorola adds more phones to ICS upgrade list
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And that brings us to the not so good news. Verizon's phones are still being "evaluated", despite the fact that ICS information and even screen shots have leaked for the Droid RAZR and the Droid Bionic. And for those phones with official timelines, it looks like Motorola’s December announcement that they planned to update their current phones “in the next 4-6 months” may have been overly optimistic. Except for the WiFi “Google Experience” version of the Xoom, it appears that we are looking at Q2-Q3 for most Motorola devices to see some creamy Android 4.0 goodness sent their way.
This perhaps shouldn’t be a surprise; Motorola’s recent comments on the difficulty of adapting ICS to hardware other than the reference SoC found in the Galaxy Nexus probably foreshadowed this prolonged timeline. Their comments didn’t fully square with our understanding of the process, but at the least it seems that Motorola has been having some difficulty in getting ICS prepped for other phones for weeks now.
At this rate Motorola’s new ICS handset, which we expect to be announced at MWC, may launch before any of their 2011 handsets are upgraded. Indeed, phones getting the update in Q3 may be just in time to see the next version of Android get released. Here’s hoping that Google’s pending acquisition of Motorola will lead to a sea change in how quickly these updates get out the door to end users.
source: Motorola via Droid-Life
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1. fervid posted on 15 Feb 2012, 11:54 2 0
At least both Atrix phones will be getting it now. Shame I had too many IMAP issues and vanishing apps claimed to be on SD Card with my Atrix 2. Better IMAP an dless issues would have made it a great phone...Super Amoled + even better, but at least it wasn't Pentile.
26. ledbetterp3 posted on 15 Feb 2012, 15:19 6 1
Yeah, just don't downgrade to an iPhone. Haha, he doesn't even have the ATRIX 2 anymore... Anyways, the ATRIX 2 is a great phone, but I'm having minor GPS issues, but that's it. I'm really glad that its getting ICS like I knew it would. Some fag at xda-developers was just swearing it wouldn't, and convincing some gullible retards, but I had faith in Motorola!
2. bubba78 posted on 15 Feb 2012, 11:54 3 0
I wish they would update the Bionic and the Razr already.
3. squallz506 posted on 15 Feb 2012, 11:57 3 0
if 2 dozen independent developers could port ICS onto my ventana tegra 2 g2x without any help from nvidia or lg than Moto has absolutely no excuse why they cant put ICS on every OMAP device.
25. biophone posted on 15 Feb 2012, 14:58 1 1
You didn't consider those independent developers didn't have to deal with google and carriers aproval. Plus they have to skin ics something devolpers don't. If you look at unskinned phones the updates are fast. Plus moto has alot of other things they are working on.
33. squallz506 posted on 15 Feb 2012, 15:42 1 0
?
my point was that motorola has infintely more resources than developers. moto says the problem is that the chipsets are too different. well independent developers have ported ics onto every major chipset. so why cant moto put ics on devices with the same chipset as the GNEX?
also the developers have made about half a dozen different themes and kangs for my device already, so building skins isnt a valid excuse.
34. biophone posted on 15 Feb 2012, 16:06 0 0
The chip sets aren't the problem michael h said so it was a lame excuse. The problem is carrier approval and skins. Building a skin on a new platform is time consiling and is a valid excise.
38. KingKurogiii posted on 15 Feb 2012, 16:33 1 0
yeah, it's a different story all the time. nobody wants to paint anybody in a bad light that's holding them by their pockets.
39. biophone posted on 15 Feb 2012, 16:35 3 0
Android really needs to take some control back from the carriers and maybe we could see more faster updates.
4. gubbels214 posted on 15 Feb 2012, 11:59 3 4
So glad they included the original atrix i was afraid it would get lost in the fray of the Atrix 2. heck the atrix has better specs then the 2
10. KingKurogiii posted on 15 Feb 2012, 12:56 3 0
actually the 2 is more powerful. why would they have made it if it wasn't? xD
5. smdeezy posted on 15 Feb 2012, 12:02 1 2
If they already gave the Xoom ICS the Photon should be next in line. The specs are exactly the same!
6. squallz506 posted on 15 Feb 2012, 12:07 1 0
? no they are not. the xoom uses the harmony tegra2 while the photon uses the ventana tegra2.
21. squallz506 posted on 15 Feb 2012, 14:17 0 0
uhhh... different GPU? xD
37. KingKurogiii posted on 15 Feb 2012, 16:30 0 0
i didn't know Nvidia made such changes to the Tegra II. o:
40. biophone posted on 15 Feb 2012, 16:37 1 0
I didn't know that either. However a sliglty different gpu is no reason not to give the photon ics.smdeezys point still stand. I would like to hear what remixfa has to say on these proccesor differences.
41. KingKurogiii posted on 15 Feb 2012, 16:53 1 0
it's probably like the difference between an OMAP4430 and a 4460. not that different. o:
42. squallz506 posted on 15 Feb 2012, 18:48 1 0
Yeah its no biggie, I was just replying to the guy claiming that they have exactly the same specs.
