SEMC Blog recently revealed that Sony (formerly Sony Ericsson) is about to unveil two Android powered smartphones in Xperia line-up naming them Xperia S and Xperia Ion at CES (Consumer Electronics Show) 2012. SEMC Blog added that Xperia S is the LT26i codenamed “Nozomi” but it’s unclear of what model will be the Xperia Ion, it it’s already known as well.
Good news! Swype is preparing a beta release of its popular on-screen virtual keyboard to support Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich which will probably be out to the end users having their Android devices running Ice Cream Sandwich by the end of this month. Final tweaks and testing are supposed to be done in time.”
Mobilink is ahead again of others in launching another Android based mid-range smartphone. Weighing only 108g, HTC Explorer brings 3.2 inch HVGA capacitive touch screen serving resolution of 480px by 320px. 600MHz processor. Free GPRS for 3 months, hands free and leather pouch
The new Trebuchet CM9 launcher has been released by one of the XDA-Developers. Ice Cream Sandwich based CyanogenMod 9 which is yet in very early stages is replacing the ADW with its own launcher named Trebuchet
LG Mobile’s official facebook fan page previously announced its initial plans for Android 4 Ice Cream Sandwich upgrade for a variety of its Android devices. Now another statement tells that the official Ice Cream Sandwich upgrade will start rolling out to LG mobile devices in 2nd and 3rd quarters of year 2012.
Developers at Android community have been really fast to develop for Android and porting ROMs for different devices. Same has been going with Ice Cream Sandwich Android 4 since the day it was released. Now here there’s a more exciting news that the new lovely HTC Sense UI has been leaked with Ice Cream Sandwich, Android 4.
After announcement of Android 4 Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) with Galaxy Nexus, recently and initially ICS was rolled out to Nexus S devices owned by Google Employees for in-house test drive of Ice Cream Sandwich on Nexus S. It’s just been over 2 weeks now when Ice Cream Sandwich has been started rolling-out to Nexus S devices.
Android’s latest Ice Cream Sandwich alpha ROM has now be been released for Xperia Phones which include Xperia™ arc S, Xperia™ neo V and Xperia™ ray. It’s strictly advised that this ROM is targeting advanced developers and it will not work for ordinary everyday usage.
Microsoft, at TechNet blog post, announced that the Microsoft Lync 2010 for Windows Phone has been made available in the Marketplace while in addition other platforms will also be benefited as the Lync 2010 client has also been submitted for Android, iOS and Symbian. However Lync for Android has already been approved and is available.
Kevin Systrom – CEO Instagram, confirms that the development of Instagram has been started for Android platform. Till now, Instagram has been a popular photo editing and sharing application for one and only platform iOS to support iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad.
