Despite releasing the flagship phone for Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich), the Galaxy Nexus, Samsung has been a bit slow and cagey about its plans to upgrade devices. Until now, at least. The South Korean manufacturer has posted a list of U.S. handsets that will get the ICS update “as quickly and as smoothly as possible.” Things are looking good if you’re on any carrier outside of T-Mobile. We’ve posted the full list below.
AT&T
- Galaxy S II (SGH-i777)
- Galaxy S II Skyrocket (SGH-i727)
- Galaxy Note (SGH-i717)
- Captivate Glide (SGH-i927)
- Galaxy Tab 8.9 (SGH-i957)
Sprint
- Nexus S 4G (SPH-d720) ICS (Update is Available)
- Galaxy S II Epic 4G Touch (SPH-d710)
Verizon
- Galaxy Tab 10.1 (SCH-i905)
- Galaxy Tab 7.7 (SCH-i815)
- Galaxy Nexus (Just kidding! You are currently king of the Android world)
T-Mobile
- “We are in close communication with T-Mobile to ensure that eligible devices are upgraded to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich in the coming months and will provide updates as we have additional details to share,” writes Samsung.
Wi-Fi Tablets
- Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus Wi-Fi (P6210)
- Galaxy Tab 8.9 Wi-Fi (P7310)
- Galaxy Tab 10.1 Wi-Fi (P7510)
It’s good to see Samsung taking updating more seriously, though it has already been five months since ICS came out. For more information on why you want ICS, check out our Android 4.0 feature breakdown. HTC has also claimed that 16 of its devices will get ICS in the near future. Hopefully, these updates actually happen.
To bad the Sandwich is draining battery like there is no tomorrow :/
Really disapppointing. Can’t believe my Galaxy S Plus of which the CPU is 1.4 which is capable to run two ICS’s, while another device of quite the same specs rather less in quality I say, is getting it (LG OPTIMUS) and the Galaxy S, Probably I’m wrong with the specs part – but still, I’d only give Samsung 2 out of 10 for that!! Juuuuust perfect only when I’m having a financial shortage now, would have got the One X… WHATEVURRR
Why this information is published I just don’t know. It is worthless, AT&T and Samsung are hell bent on stretching this out as long as possible. I believe they are waiting for thier newest devices to flatten out, sales wise, before they provide ICS to the holdouts, those people who cannot or don’t wish to upgrade thier hardware.
I really got my hopes up when i saw the headline. Sadly i don’t see my Galaxy S listed. Man I really regret upgrading to gingerbread, it freezes constantly. I have high hopes that ICS will resolve most of my issues.
From what I understand Samsung is planning on sending out an update to Galaxy S owners, but it won’t be ICS. It’ll be an update that will add some ICS sort of updates, but won’t be a full version update, hopefully it will solve the problems Gingerbread caused you.