Sony has announced that the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) update to the Sony Xperia S has begun rolling out to owners of the device.
In an announcement on its blog, the Japanese consumer electronics company has started their software rollout for the Sony Xperia S including ICS and a host of new and unique media applications.
Sony says that with ICS (version 4.0.4 for those who want to be specific) will bring “cool features” to the Sony Xperia S. These features include:

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Users of the Verizon Droid RAZR may not have to wait much longer before their devices – which are still sadly running on Android 2.3 Gingerbread – will be updated to the latest Android mobile operating system.
According to reports, Verizon has indeed given notice to Verizon Droid RAZR users that their smartphones will soon receive the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) update.
Reports say that some subscribers on the U.S. mobile carrier, those using the Verizon Droid RAZR, are getting the …

The Sony Tablet P ICS Update (Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich) will be released by Sony on Thursday, the Japanese tech veteran has revealed.
The move from Sony comes after the ICS update for the Sony Tablet S was released last month bringing with it new features to the higher-end Tablet S like panoramic camera view, enhanced lock screen, a revamped home screen with new icons, an better Android internet browser, Face Unlock and the Chrome browser for Android.
The Sony Tablet P ICS update was …

Samsung has revealed which devices coming from U.S. mobile carriers will receive the much-awaited upgrade to the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) mobile operating system.
In an FAQ on the Samsung site for the U.S., the South Korean consumer electronics juggernaut revealed that most of the devices it released on U.S. carriers will indeed get the ICS update.
However, those who have the original Galaxy S and the original Galaxy Tab (7-inch) will not get the ICS update.
Similarly, those on …

LG has announced a detailed Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) update schedule yesterday on its Facebook Page.
According to the South Korean tech company, it will roll out its first ICS update to select phones by the second quarter of next year.
Here is LG’s ICS update announcement which it made through a Facebook note:
LG will be offering the Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) OS upgrade for a range of LG smart-phones which were introduced this year. The global upgrade schedule will begin in the second and …

Dropbox 2.0 for Android has finally been released, offering new features and a redesigned layout that will help users get resynched, and reoriented for the year 2012.
 
DropBox is a free file synchronization and sharing service founded by Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi in 2007 with the aim of making it easy for users to access their files, on any computer with an internet connection, without relying on email attachments.
 

DropBox 2.0 for Android released

One of the new features on …

Archos has shown off an Ice Cream Sandwich-running (ICS) Archos G9 tablet, a new report notes, saying that the next-generation mobile operating system from Google may have improved the performance of the tablet.
The report comes via Digital Trends which spotted a video posted by ARMDevices.net on YouTube showing the Archos G9 powered by ICS.
“Archos has released a video showing its G9 tablet running Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich), which appears to have increased the performance of the …

The NOVO7, the world’s first tablet running on the Google-backed next-generation Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich – ICS) operating system, has been launched and its is not as expensive as some might expect.
The NOVO7 ICS tablet was recently launched in China by its makers – MIPS Technologies and Ingenic Semiconductor – for a price below $100.
And that $100 price tag for the new NOVO7 tablet is “non-subsidized”, MIPS said in a press release.
This is the world’s first ICS tablet and …

Google has released the open-source code for Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, the tech giant’s latest mobile operating system (OS).

(Image: Abul Hussain (CC), via Flickr)

The source code is now available for all developers, modders and Android phone makers to download.
Jean-Baptiste M. “JBQ” Queru, a software engineer on the Android Open-Source Project (AOSP) at Google, informed everyone and said, “Hi! We just released a bit of code we thought this group might be interested in. …

Samsung and Google are expected to launch the next-generation Android mobile operating system, Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS), and the next-generation Nexus phone, the Nexus Prime, on October 19.

Samsung and Google will launch the Nexus Prime and the Ice Cream Sandwich OS on October 19 in Hong Kong. Image via TechCrunch

The news comes as Samsung has given out invites for the Nexus Prime and ICS event scheduled to be held not in the U.S. but in Hong Kong.
As you can see from the invite photo posted …