No ice cream sandwich for the Samsung Galaxy S phones

The bad news 20 million for Samsung Galaxy S owners out there: Samsung just announced that it will not provide Google updates Android 4.0 (ice cream sandwich) for one of these phones, which include with the Galaxy, Galaxy with 4 G, Captivate and Vibrant, among other things.

Samsung's official line is the Galaxy S – which is actually less than 18 months — does not have sufficient memory RAM or ROM to run new operating system, together with Samsung's TouchWiz user interface overlay The Verge , messages. Samsung also said that the Galaxy card will receive the update ice cream sandwich.

Note that the Galaxy with the Cortex A8 processor 1 GHz, and the accompanying RAM would be good for ice cream sandwich, whereas several of the newer phones with similar hardware as Samsung Nexus with shall be entitled to upgrade and LG has recently announced that provides Internet connection sharing for the 600 MHz Optimus line in future updates.

While the original Galaxy would qualify for Samsung's Android Alliance Update to Google this year in may, underline the importance of that commitment was – which makes it discouraging that the company danced around the question of our on innovation ice cream sandwich in a few recent Samsung models, and if not, what's with the deadline was only seven months ago would reconcile.

The next day, Samsung has confirmed its report with the Galaxy II, receives an ice cream sandwich.

For more information, see in the PCMag full review Android 4.0 ice cream sandwich and presentation below.

ICS Rollout for Sony Ericsson Xperia Phones Starting in March

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Sony Ericsson is the latest handset manufacturer to provide more details about its Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich rollout plans, and the company said users should expect the first ICS-enabled Sony Ericsson devices in late March and early April 2012.

"Our developers are now busy merging our current Xperia software with the new features in Android 4.0," Sony Ericsson said in a blog post.

The first smartphones to get a taste of Ice Cream Sandwich will be the Xperia arc S, the Xperia neo V, and Xperia ray.

In late April and early May, the Android 4.0 rollout will continue for the Xperia arc, Xperia Play "PlayStation phone," Xperia neo, Xperia mini and mini pro, Xperia pro, Xperia active, and the Sony Ericsson Live with Walkman.

Sony Ericsson said the Ice Cream Sandwich launch will be a "phased roll out over several weeks," so not all users of a particular Xperia model will get the update at the same time. For more details, Sony Ericsson has a lengthy explanation of the upgrade process in a separate blog post.

When ICS is ready, however, Xperia owners will get a notification on their handsets instructing them to download the update over the air via 3G or Wi-Fi. It will also be accessible to those who want to connect their device to the PC.

Samsung's Galaxy Nexus smartphone was the first device to be released with Ice Cream Sandwich in the U.S.; it made its debut on Verizon Wireless on Dec. 15. For more, see PCMag's full review.

It's been more difficult to nail down exact ICS release dates for other handsets, however. PCMag's Jamie Lendino talked to several handset manufacturers about their ICS rollout plans recently, prompting him to declare that Google's Android Update Alliance Is Already Dead.

For more, see PCMag's full review of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich and the slideshow below.

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ITC Judge Rules Motorola's Android Phones Violate Microsoft Patent

 

A U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) judge on Tuesday ruled that Motorola Mobility infringed a Microsoft patent in making its Android handsets but did not violate six other patents for which Microsoft had made claims against Motorola.

Microsoft has accused Motorola Mobility of infringing its Windows Mobile and Windows Phone patents with phones running the Android mobile operating system owned by Google, which recently acquired Motorola Mobility. Those handsets include Motorola's Droid 2, Droid X, Cliq XT, Devour, and Backflip, as well as software associated with those devices. The software giant filed its initial complaint in October 2010.

The initial ruling by ITC Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) Theodore Essex will be reviewed by the full commission, which will make a final decision on the cast that is expected by April 20, 2012, according to a statement from Motorola.

Tuesday's initial ruling concerns Motorola's possible infringement of four claims in Microsoft's patent for "generating meeting requests and group scheduling from a mobile device," notes patent expert Florian Mueller on his Foss Patents blog.

"It's a fairly interesting patent," Mueller writes. "For business users, [it's] an essential feature. If they're on travel or even just at lunch or in a meeting room, they want to be able to schedule meetings without having to go back to their office. Scheduling meetings is also increasingly popular on some social networks, so it's probably a feature for both enterprise users and consumers.

"It remains to be seen how Motorola will address this issue as well as any other Android patent issues that will present themselves along the way, with many other cases and dozens of other patents still waiting for a decision."

Microsoft deputy general counsel David Howard said the company was "pleased with the ITC's initial determination." Not to be outdone, a legal spokesman for Motorola said his company was "very pleased" with the ruling.

"We are very pleased that the majority of the rulings were favorable to Motorola Mobility," said Scott Offer, senior vice president and general counsel of Motorola Mobility. "The ALJ's initial determination may provide clarity on the definition of the Microsoft 566 patent for which a violation was found and will help us avoid infringement of this patent in the U.S. market."

Microsoft is also suing Motorola over the latter company's royalty rates for wireless networking and video technologies, while Motorola has its own patent claims against Microsoft that concern several of the software maker's key products, including Windows 7, Windows Phone 7, Bing, Windows Live Messaging, and the Xbox game console.

Ripped Angry Birds compatible with other Nokia S40 phones

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We all know how popular the Angry Birds game is. And back at Nokia World when the S40-running Asha 300/303 were announced to come with the popular pig-bashing game pre-installed, fans of the platform loudly rejoiced.

However, it was not clear whether Angry Birds would run on older S40 devices. Well, worry no more – it works and it’s good to go for you to try out.

One of our readers managed to get hold of an Asha ROM and extract the 1.8MB .jar file of Angry Birds. Furthermore, he went on and installed it on his own Nokia X3-02. And guess what? According to him, it works great and it’s quite playable, too.

The game consists of 15 levels as it’s only a demo version, but nevertheless it’s great for every S40 device owner to be able to play it. Here are some not terribly great photos of how the game looks like on the X3-02.

If you want to try it out yourself, our tipster has kindly provided a link to the game’s .jar file for you to install. Head over to this link to download the game. Don’t forget to share your experience with it in the comments below.

Thanks, Shaunak!