Samsung Galaxy phones, tabs to get Ice Cream Sandwich in 2012
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Samsung said Tuesday that upgrades to Google’s new Android Ice Cream Sandwich operating system are due early next year for its lineup of Galaxy smartphones and tablets.
That should be welcome news to owners of Galaxy devices who might feel a bit behind after last week’s launch of the new Galaxy Nexus phone, the first device to run on Ice Cream Sandwich.
All of Galaxy phones and tablets for sale will receive the software upgrades, Samsung said in a blog post. The Galaxy S II and Galaxy Note phones will be updated in the first quarter 2012 ‘and other Galaxy devices will soon follow,’ Samsung said.
Among the other Galaxy products promised for updates are the Galaxy R phone and the Galaxy Tab 10.1, Galaxy Tab 8.9, Galaxy Tab 7.7 and Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus tablets.
Older Galaxy devices no longer on sale, such last year’s original Galaxy Tab, aren’t set to receive the upgrades.
Ice Cream Sandwich, the latest version of Google’s mobile operating system, is the first version of Android designed to work on both smartphones and tablets and adds many new features such as ‘face unlock,’ which removes the needs for passwords to unlock a phone by enabling the phone to recognize its owner’s face looking at the screen.
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-- Nathan Olivarez-Giles
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