Rumors of a March launch for the Samsung Galaxy S II's Android 4.0 upgrade have been circulating for a while, but now it seems we may have the first official word on when the update will land. Samsung Mobile Israel has today made a statement on its official Facebook page, saying it expects ICS for the Galaxy S II to roll out on unlocked and carrier-branded handsets in Israel from Mar. 15.

Roughly translated, the post reads --

"We promised we were working on it. You waited patiently. And on 15 March it'll arrive: Android version 4, ICS, to tens of thousands of GALAXY S II devices purchased from cellular companies in the country or directly from us. We are very excited for the launch, hope you are too :)"

While this is great news for Galaxy S II owners in Israel (as well as those with the unlocked international version upon which it's based), other territories may have a little longer to wait.We'd expect this to be particularly true for the U.S., where hardware differs from carrier to carrier.

So far, the steady trickle of leaked ICS ROMs for the Galaxy S II have shown Samsung making progress towards stable builds over the past couple of months. We'll keep you posted with any further announcements, while we cross our fingers for a Mar. 15 launch.

Source: Samsung Mobile Israel

ASUS originally promised an “early February” window for the Ice Cream Sandwich upgrade for their original Eee Pad Transformer and it looks like they are on track to meet it. The company said on Facebook that the upgrade is currently in the process of being approved by Google meaning quality assurance and testing is all wrapped up on ASUS’s end. Of course, anything could cause Google to reject the upgrade but we have a feeling things will be good to go by the time the shortest month of the year arrives.

Source: ASUS via Droid-Life

Many phone Users like device with faster performance in its task, Smarter, having lot of memory and affordable in pocket. Android is one of best and popular OS used in many Smartphone and tablet. Android brought new version of update for all the Galaxy line devices. The most popular device like Galaxy Note and Galaxy S2 will get update of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich in 2012. And update for other Samsung Galaxy devices reach in short period of time.

This update will be available for the list of devices:

• Galaxy S2 LTE,
• Galaxy Tab 10.1,
• Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus,
• Galaxy Tab 7.7,
• Galaxy Tab 8.9,
• Galaxy R,
• Galaxy S2
• Galaxy Note.

This Update helps in improvement in performance of the devices. Many users will enjoys its performance after updating, so let’s check improvement in the performance. Firstly this Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system is used in the Samsung Galaxy Nexus. Users after updating feel better i performance or we can say this is the new birth for operating system. Many changes or improvement in many utilities like Wi-Fi hotspot, notification, multitasking, full browsing experience and NFC support.

Users will feel good after getting Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update. Android 4.0 also consist of new features like Android Beam NFC sharing and face unlock. This update shows a little bit changes in features. But we can say it is better than Gingerbread and Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich is one of the new or best version of Android. Users like its looks and performance and it can perform task fast.

This is the new version of Android so some application fails to work. These same problems also occur in Honeycomb, there are many applications like, Flash support, steaming Skifta, TV catch-up services like ITV and BBC. Don’t worry solution for these problem will give you soon. We have other small problem such as we can’t quit some application like Gmail or unresponsive till we restart our device.

Finally we can say that Android’s this OS is good looking (especially the TouchWiz!) and provided with many application, features and utilities. Performance also improved in this version. However Galaxy S and Galaxy Tab (7-Inch) will not be added to this list, because of its less powered ROMs and RAMs. Samsung officially announced about the unavailability of the ICS 4.0 for these devices.

Here at Android Community we love 3rd party keyboards and Swiftkey X is right at the top of our list. We’ve constantly recommended this as one of the best apps for Android phones and tablets. Today they’ve pushed their latest update to improve upon the recently released v2.2 and they’ve added tons of improvements and bug fixes — Especially for the Droid Bionic.

Updating version 2.2 that features improved learning techniques, support for over 35 languages, improved multitouch support for faster and more accurate typing and more. The update today should address many of the force close issues the latest release suffered from, improve support for voice input on the DROID Bionic. memory handling has been improved and is more efficient as well.

While they didn’t announce any new features or important updates small things like memory handling should help speed up the typing experience and make things much more fluid for daily usage. XKDPI icons and key-press popup fixes were also included. As usual you can head to the Android Market on your device and via the link today to get the latest and greatest from Swiftkey X. See our awesome reviews and hands-on of Swiftkey below.

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Samsung Galaxy SL I9003, running Android 2.3.5 Gingerbread I9003 is one of the best Android Smartphone. Just weeks after Google has released the Android 4.0 ICS (Ice Cream Sandwich) source code, unauthorized upgrades and ports have began popping up before authorized update and also a few authorized firmware upgrades have leaked out. Hackers have managed to install Android 4.0 ICS on Samsung Galaxy SL I9003.

A leaked version of the Samsung’s authorized Ice Cream Sandwich firmware for the Galaxy SL I9003 model was distributed around the web during an attempt to fast-forward progress. This is still the beta release of the Ice Cream Sandwich update, so while using the firmware you can expect some hardware malfunction or bugs.

Note: This firmware is released for the developers and testers only. You will not be able to call, message and access any apps. The lock screens and initial touch interface will work fine. If you are a non-geeky then please don’t try.

If you wish for the steady version OS for your handset, we advise you to stay with authorized Android 2.3.5 Gingerbread update. So if you can’t hang around for authorized release, carry on reading for the instructions to install unauthorized Android 4.0 ICS on your Galaxy SL I9003.

Requirements to Upgrade Galaxy SL I9003 to Ice Cream Sandwich

• First step is you have to fully charge up your handset to at least 70% battery life to make sure that the handset doesn’t switch off in the installation procedure.
• As we are installing the alpha version of Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0, make a back-up of all your needed data since it is very important to have a copy of your original files. The majority of the present features won’t function right away and you may have problem in accessing your data.
• By navigating to Settings > Applications > Development > USB Debugging, allow USB Debugging on your handset.
• Disable all unwanted computer processes such as firewall programs, antivirus software, and PC suites because they may interrupt the firmware installation procedure.

Directions to Upgrade Galaxy SL I9003 to ICS

• Download the newest ICS firmware for the Galaxy SL I9003 to your PC from this link.  Take it now, don’t remove the ZIP file.
• With a USB Data cable connect your handset to your computer.
• Copy the downloaded ICS ZIP file into SD card of your handset. Ensure that you don’t paste it within many folders, or else your handset may not be able to easily locate the Ice Cream Sandwich update file.
• From the Android Market download and install ROM Manager after copying the ZIP file. Download it here.
• Now open ROM Manager from your application drawer and pick “Flash ClockworkMod Recovery.”
• Switch off your handset so that you can continue and boot into recovery mode. By pressing down the Volume Down key + Ok Button and at the same time holding down the Power Button as well you can enter recovery mode.
• In recovery mode, choose “install zip from SD card.”  To navigate around the menu use the volume keys and to verify a highlighted selection, make use of the Power button.
• Select “choose zip from SD Card” and select the file that you have copied into SD card of your handset. Once chosen, the firmware update will start installing. In 5 – 10 minutes update process will ends and handset will reboot to run with ICS Android.

Congratulations! You have Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich on your Smartphone now. Remember, this is for testers and developers only. You can revert it to the old version at any time.

More and more devices are releasing, as a same way the releasing of software, operating system, application. Android Operating System is used in many Smartphone’s. To move forward there must be a updating of OS, this helps to competition with other device. Huawei Honor U8860 is getting Ice Cream Sandwich Android 4.0 Firmware update. This update is first come to Galaxy Nexus and Secondly Huawei Honor. This update is Demo version. Hence you must convert to original version of firmware. Below given information helps to update Android 4.0 firmware.

Note: we are not responsible if any damage causes to your device while updating.

Pre-requisites before update:

• First of all we must backup all the data present in phone memory, there is possibility of losing the data. Steps to be taken.
• Backup text messages and call logs (if you want)
• Copy files like Picture, video, Music, document etc to external memory
• Backup all the Internet and MMS Settings from the path “Application > setting > Wireless and Network > Mobile networks > Access point names”
• Backup the Phone contacts
• After following these steps. We must check the battery life whether it has above 70% charge so it helps in avoid switching off during update process.
• Checkout whether phone contain original version of Huawei Android OS or update of firmware because in crack version or in root version this update will not complete.

Once you adhere to the conditions mentioned above, you are ready for this update of firmware. These are the steps we must follow before update. Now let us see methods to update Ice Cream Sandwich Android 4.0.

Steps To Download and Install Android 4.0 Firmware update:

• Connect Huawei Honor device to PC using USB cable. Download Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0 firmware package from here.
• When download completes, copy downloaded Zip file to your handset’s memory card. After copying Zip file to “dload” directory in your device.
• Finally disconnect the USB cable from your device and switch off Huawei Honor U8866. Boot your device in idle mode. Go to Menu option > setting > storage > software update > SD card upgrade and click on ok. This helps to perform upgrade operation in Huawei Honor.
• After completing the upgrade you must wait till the phone restarts into boot animation called Unicom. It takes approximately 3 minutes to process.

This step helps to update Huawei Honor to Ice Cream Sandwich Android 4.0 version. We hope you successfully updated the firmware.