{"id":2249,"date":"2012-04-24T13:25:48","date_gmt":"2012-04-24T23:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/?p=2249"},"modified":"2012-04-24T13:26:30","modified_gmt":"2012-04-24T23:26:30","slug":"samsung-announces-android-ice-cream-sandwich-updates-6-month-after-os-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/24\/samsung-announces-android-ice-cream-sandwich-updates-6-month-after-os-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung announces Android Ice Cream Sandwich updates 6 month after OS release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/samsung_ics.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"samsung_ics\" width=\"289\" height=\"268\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2250\" \/>I realize that most people don&#8217;t care when or if their Android phone or tablet gets a major OS upgrade. But, I do and have been annoyed by how long it takes vendors to get upgrades out the door. Android 4.x (Ice Cream Sandwich), for example, was released on October 19, 2011 &#8211; 6 months ago. The first ICS device, the Galaxy Nexus, was released a month later (Nov. 14, 2011). However, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.samsung.com\/us\/support\/SupportOwnersFAQPopup.do?faq_id=FAQ00046726&#038;fm_seq=49755\">Samsung is only now announcing the list of their devices that will eventually get ICS upgrades<\/a>. These upgrades aren&#8217;t actually available. But, there is the hope that upgrades will be available soon.<\/p>\n<p>While carriers are sometimes the cause of these delays, why is it that Samsung&#8217;s WiFi-only tablets have not been upgraded yet? My guess is it is because of the no-value TouchWiz graphical layer Samsung lays over Android&#8217;s native interface. If vendors would stop fussing with their ugly and generally useless GUI overlays (with the exception of the screen capture utility Samsung adds with TouchWiz), I bet these upgrades would be available a lot faster.<\/p>\n<p>So vendors, dump TouchWiz, TouchSense, Blur and all those other GUI overlays. They add little or nothing and keep desired new features and bug fixes out of your customers&#8217; grasp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I realize that most people don&#8217;t care when or if their Android phone or tablet gets a major OS upgrade. But, I do and have been annoyed by how long it takes vendors to get upgrades out the door. Android 4.x (Ice Cream Sandwich), for example, was released on October 19, 2011 &#8211; 6 months [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-android-mobile-devices"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ppKRG-Ah","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2249"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2252,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2249\/revisions\/2252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}