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By Tom Gray on December 16th, 2011

Ice Cream Sandwich for Nexus S has officially been released! How to install: Grab the OTA package here http://android.clients.google.com/pa…o/VQ8PQk_V.zip TMO version – GSM version Update 4.0.3 from the google servers (128mb download) Rename it to update.zip. This isn’t needed for the Nexus S bootloader, but it makes things easy, if that’s how you prefer them. Copy…

By Ryan Moore on December 15th, 2011

Honeycomb, the soon to be forgotten OS as it melds with ICS and unifies the Android OS. The Motorola Xoom (Tom, don’t you have one?) just updated it’s firmware to the latest Honeycomb version (3.2), something my eeePad has had for some time. If you don’t have it yet, or the tablet isn’t telling you…

By Ryan Moore on December 15th, 2011

  Sony has said it’s going to update its 2011 Xperia lineup to ICS.  Today, they show off what that will look like on youtube This is a demo of the Ice Cream Sandwich alpha ROM for Xperia phones. It is available for download at Sony Ericsson Developer World. This ROM is strictly targeting advanced…

By Ryan Moore on December 15th, 2011

So the phone has barely had any chance to do any big distribution, and is just dropping for Verizon today in the US and it’s already got 2 updates. I love how Google keeps ensuring that its software is the latest.  Below is a list of the improvements to 4.0.2 Software Version: ICL53F / Android Version…

By Ryan Moore on December 13th, 2011

  The updates for Gingerbreads just keep coming, as Bell has just updated the Atrix to 2.3.6 Been trying see what the difference from 2.3.4 would be, and it seems to be just some bug fixes (notably something with Voice Search). So, go and update your phones now!      

By Ryan Moore on December 13th, 2011

Remember that Pro I reviewed a while back?  Remember how it was 2.3.3, and I said I betcha that 2.3.4 was around the corner? Well, today Sony proves I’m not a liar with an update to the Pro, Play, Arc and MiniPro. Funny – I was just supply teaching today and saw a student with…

By Tom Gray on December 12th, 2011

If you are an owner for the new Galaxy Nexus, you would probably be happy to know there are some really promising roms revealing themselves recently. Of course to even think about roms, you’ll need to have a rooted Galaxy Nexus. I posted a quick and easy root guide not to long ago, you can find that…

By Tom Gray on December 5th, 2011

The internal testing process has begun for the Ice Cream Sandwich update to the Nexus S according to several posts made to Google+ by Google employees. Googlers using the Nexus S are receiving an early build of Android 4.0 as an OTA update in order to evaluate its performance and test for any final bugs during daily…