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Samsung Galaxy S II, Note on track to get ICS by end of Q1

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Samsung Galaxy S II, Note on track to get ICS by end of Q1
Samsung has just confirmed that, just as previously announced, its Galaxy S II and Galaxy Note handsets will be among the first to get updated to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich by the end of the first quarter of 2012. This means that there’s no more than two months to wait until the ICS update finally hits the two devices.

We should note, though, that the update is most likely due Q1 2012 for the international version of the handset, while local versions like the US carrier ones might have to wait longer until they get updated. 

The Samsung Galaxy Note for starters is not even available yet stateside. The Note is expected to land on AT&T on February 19th, and still feature Gingerbread upon launch.

The two devices will get most of the benefits of Ice Cream Sandwich included the improved visuals and functionality, but it remains to be seen how the different versions of the devices will get specific functions like Android Beam which requires NFC. When it comes to the Galaxy S2 only some versions like the AT&T have an NFC chip, so the others would obviously not support it.


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1. itiswhatitis posted on 31 Jan 2012, 08:52 1

GOOD!!

2. Venkat_5.uni posted on 31 Jan 2012, 08:53

Anyways thank for the info....i knew it that they would release at the end of q1 and will be completed in q2(i hope).....

3. andrew1953 posted on 31 Jan 2012, 08:58

How long before the Note hits Asia/Australia.

4. remixfa posted on 31 Jan 2012, 08:59

now if we could just get them to change their mind for SGS1 ICS. I cant believe that they wont ever do it considering they are still releasing versions of the SGS1 as new phones.
Ive been runnin ICS roms on it for a while now, and its absolutely flawless. lets get some official support to fix those last nagging bugs! :)

5. threeline posted on 31 Jan 2012, 09:35 2

If your version is flawless then why do you need official support for the last nagging bugs?

6. darkkjedii posted on 31 Jan 2012, 09:57

Lmao exactly. There's no way n hell it's absolutely flawless... My gs2 isn't flawless with the software that supposed to b on it. Great,but not flawless lol.

7. ilia1986 posted on 31 Jan 2012, 10:31

Ah cmon man. You and I both know that there will be 40,000,000 different ICS roms for the SGS1. Some maybe even with Touch-Wiz.

8. kshell1 posted on 31 Jan 2012, 10:40 1

and the sgs2 will be at top again hopefully.....until sgs3 shows up

9. bvalde09 posted on 31 Jan 2012, 10:46

Great Im so glad I got the S2 Internation Version. Aprill plsss come. (altought I dont want to get my hopes to high)

10. RamyRamz69 posted on 31 Jan 2012, 11:17 1

Yah right.

Here in the MENA region Samsung support is absolutely BS.

My S2 is still running on 2.3.3 and I think I will get the ICS update by 2013 or somewhere near that.

11. the_s2 posted on 31 Jan 2012, 14:23

well, the XXLP6 is so far okay for daily use. And touchwiz doesnt look that bad, even though I wish for Touchwiz 4.5.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z12NYU3vLA&context=C321a949ADOEgsToPDskJk0rIiKdhA8-K67GV695q1

12. Cwebb posted on 31 Jan 2012, 15:03

And yet in the back of my mind, its still by Samsung. They have lied about software updates before, and they will again

13. taz89 posted on 31 Jan 2012, 18:20

lied lol when if you going to mention the galaxy s well they never promised ics and the late release of gingerbread in the us was due to your carriers.clearly ics for the international s2 is on the way very very soon as we have seen countless official leaks of ics for s2

14. Cwebb posted on 31 Jan 2012, 21:54

Moot point because international always comes out sooner for every manufacturer, and because I've even seen Sense 4 looking ROMs built off ICS.

On another note, GO ARSENAL! Good game against Stoke today though

15. InspectorGadget80 posted on 31 Jan 2012, 22:02

What bout those of us that have the Atrix?

16. Forsaken77 posted on 01 Feb 2012, 00:06

My Skyrocket has an NFC chip on the battery but I don't think it's activated. There's no settings in the phone to do anything with it. AT&T better not F this up. Pass along the update in a timely manner.

17. henrickrw posted on 01 Feb 2012, 19:39

nice. all i need is touchwiz to be eliminated

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