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[ddemlong]

HMM, Our bootloader was supposed to be unlocked too in 2011. Ill believe it when I see something more official

[xiogua]

They're a little late to the party. I've had ICS on my razr.

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[en7gm4]

Dec 30,2012 special news from verizon: Like we promise we will be pushing out ICS on our devices tommorow.

[SLCMotor]

Verizon Wireless confirmed that its Motorola Droid Razr, Razr Maxx, Samsung Galaxy Tabs, HTC ThunderBolt are among the many 4G LTE devices that will receive the Android 4.0 upgrade.



Verizon Wireless published a list of smartphones and tablets that will get the Google Android 4.0, or Ice Cream Sandwich, upgrade this year, with most of the devices designed to shuttle traffic for the carrier's 4G LTE network.

Launched in December 2010, Verizon's (Long-Term Evolution) LTE network promises to facilitate data rates 10 times faster than that of its 3G predecessor.

Most of the 4G LTE smartphones from the carrier have launched with Android 2.3 (Gingerbread). Android Honeycomb currently powers 4G LTE tablets such as the Motorola Xoom and Motorola Droid Xyboard slates.

Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS), which blends qualities of the Android smartphone and Honeycomb tablet branches, launched first on Verizon's Samsung Galaxy Nexus last December.

However, additional devices with ICS have been scarce, mostly relegated to prototypes at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show two months ago, and devices such as the MIPS low-cost Novo7 tablet.

Now Verizon has confirmed that Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 and Tab 7.7 premium tablets will be getting ICS this year.

Motorola's Xoom tablet, which is already getting ICS over the air, will be joined by the company's Droid Bionic, Razr, Razr Maxx, Droid 4, and the Xyboard 10.1 and 8.2 slates.

HTC's ThunderBolt, Droid Incredible 2, HTC Rhyme and HTC Rezound will also get ICS. Finally, LG's Spectrum smartphone will also get the ICS bump this year.

Of these devices, only the Rhyme and Incredible 2 are not 4G LTE-capable.

The Android OEMs all have their own upgrade timelines. Samsung and HTC have been cagey about theirs, though Motorola posted its ICS upgrade schedule last month, most of the Motorola handsets and tablets won't receive ICS until the third quarter this year.

Verizon Wireless announced a list of 14 devices currently scheduled to get an Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update at some point in the future. The announcement doesn't come with any promised ETAs.

• HTC ThunderBolt
• DROID Incredible 2 by HTC
• HTC Rhyme
• HTC Rezound
• Motorola XOOM
• DROID BIONIC
• DROID RAZR
• DROID RAZR MAXX
• DROID 4
• DROID XYBOARD 8.2
• DROID XYBOARD 10.1
• Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1
• Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7
• Spectrum by LG

Of the 14 announced devices, 5 are tablets. There are some notably absent devices as well which seem pretty surprising. Of the initial Verizon 4G LTE smartphone rollout, both the LG Revolution and Droid Charge by Samsung are missing from the ICS update list. The latter of which's "Droid" branding had led me to believe would be enough to overcome Samsung's reluctance to update any of the Galaxy S family to Android 4.0. The Charge's keyboard-packing cousin, the Samsung Stratosphere, is also absent, and so is the Pantech Breakout.

[mopar57]

you want to merge it with the one posted the other day

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Sad thing is...a few of those will get knock out with the same software....
but it makes verizon look better

[ka1z0ku]

Q3 2012 for official ICS on Moto products seems absurd. 5.0 Jelly Bean will probably be out on the next Nexus device a couple weeks later...

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