Take this with a fistful of salt, but the Samsung Galaxy S2 will be getting updated to Ice Cream Sandwich on 1 March, if one industry speculator is to be believed.
Frequent tweeter on the subject of all things tech Eldar Murtazin took to the micro-blogging service to say, "Android 4 aka ICS for SGS2 will be officially available from March 1."
Murtazin went on to qualify that the date of the much-anticipated upgrade would depend on your country and network operator, and that the bump to Android 4.0 would be available as as an over the air update, or using Samsung's Kies software.
Murtazin doesn't say what his sources are, and the prolific tweeter's futuregazing missives don't always seem to be on the money -- recently he tweeted a link to an image of what looked to be a new Samsung Galaxy phone, but we reckon that was just a dodgy Photoshop.
Still, if 1 March isn't when the S2 gets updated, it can't be far off the truth -- Samsung Norway has said it will update the S2 and the Galaxy Note in the first quarter of 2012, which means it should be sporting Ice Cream Sandwich by the end of March.
Murtazin later tweeted that the Note would be getting updated to Ice Cream Sandwich "from March to May". What would really help in this situation is for Samsung to be upfront with S2 owners about when they can expect an update. C'mon folks, put us out of our misery!
Motorola big cheese Christy Wyatt recently went on record blaming complex and diverse hardware for slowing down the rate of ICS updates.
Are you desperate for a scoop of Ice Cream Sandwich? Do you think Samsung has been communicative enough? Tell us in the comments or on our Facebook wall.
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anonymous 10 February, 2012 20:21
How hard can it be for Google to require all of the manufactures adhere to a minimum hardware requirement as to be able to fully utilize the Operating system that the phone will be using. I mean some phones running android are positively ghastly, I went from a galaxy fit to a galaxy S2 and there are "HUGE" differences in how the experience of android is perceived.
anonymous 10 February, 2012 23:42
Eh, I can wait. Gingerbread already has pretty much all the features of ICS except for maybe face unlock. ICS is eye candy more than anything.
anonymous 11 February, 2012 01:55
I just wish they would release without so much of their own features and just leave it as the stock build. It wont feel or look any different to 2.3 because they're making it look exactly the same with Touchwiz.
anonymous 11 February, 2012 12:03
Some of the new apps are being released just for ICS and later in the hope that it will soon swell the market and work on tablets as well and will not be out of date for some time.
anonymous 27 February, 2012 23:41
Help!
I'm going blind trying to read the small letters while composing outgoing e-mails on my Samsung Galaxy s2. Are there any Apps or other methods that will prevent my blindness?
anonymous 29 February, 2012 13:49
@Help : keep touching the text and a magnifier will appears, but I doubt of that it will help you.
anonymous 1 March, 2012 16:15
As per my calendar, today's the 1st March...
anonymous 1 March, 2012 17:31
Yep today's 1st and no ics :(
anonymous 1 March, 2012 18:41
Been checking for updates all day :-(
anonymous 2 March, 2012 10:54
2nd March now.
anonymous 2 March, 2012 13:30
Ok, so I asked them yesterday on the Samsung UK Twitter feed. Kudos to them for answering, and quite quickly. Here's the statement:
http://www.twitlonger.com/show/g7bgv2
DoctorSammyKis 3 March, 2012 21:06
I have to correct this post because the update will be offically released OTA and via KIES mid April 2012. Thanks for the rumor anyway. :)
anonymous 5 March, 2012 22:45
still waiting !!
DoctorSammyKis 6 March, 2012 18:49
Like I said. APRIL not MARCH!!!