Today on the SlashGear test bench is the new Huawei Ascend P1 Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich smartphone. It was first unveiled at CES and we’ve been waiting for it ever since. As of late Huawei has been making some huge strides with their hardware to better compete with HTC and the Samsung’s in the world, and this phone is a solid attempt. Being one of their best handsets to date can it match up? Check out the rest of the review to find out.
Sony has cancelled plans to upgrade the Xperia PLAY gaming smartphone to Ice Cream Sandwich, justifying its decision with negative feedback from carriers, developers and owners of the test Android 4.0 build. "After extensive in house testing with our developer teams and working with our partners," Sony said in a statement today, "we have concluded that a consistent and stable experience, particularly with gaming, cannot be guaranteed for this smartphone on Ice Cream Sandwich."
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Huawei‘s recently announced super-slim Ascend P1 Android smartphone has just arrived and we’re taking it for a spin. The slim 7.6mm thin Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich handset made its debut at CES this year, but will finally be available this month across the world. It’s thin and lightweight but what about the rest? Read on for our first impressions and hands-on video.
LG has today announced the introduction of its new user interface for LG Optimus phones running Ice Cream Sandwich. Optimus UI 3.0 will feature major modifications to the stock Android experience, offering similar features to what you might find with Sense and TouchWiz but with LG’s unique twists. The UI will be available on the LG Optimus 4X HD and LG Optimus LTE II when they both launch.
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Samsung's slow roll-out of the Android 4.0 upgrade for the Galaxy S II continues, with questions still remaining as to whether all owners will get Ice Cream Sandwich before the phone's successor reaches the market. Latest to get Android 4.0 is Singapore, following on from European availability that began back in March.
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Samsung just last week announced the hotly anticipated Galaxy S III smartphone, and we were in London for all the details during the launch. Today Live in New Orleans at Pepcom during CTIA 2012 we are giving it a second look because we just can't get enough. Plus this time around we got a quick look at a few impressive features like facial recognition in the photo gallery and more. Hit the video after the break for more details.
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ZTE's latest tablet that was announced during MWC 2012 in Barcelona Spain earlier this year is making the rounds here at CTIA. It wasn't available back at MWC but roaming the showroom floor here in New Orleans we managed to get a few minutes with the new dual-core Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich tablet.
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Here at CTIA 2012 in New Orleans Kyocera is jumping back into the smartphone market with a few Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich smartphones. Shown off today is the all new Kyocera Rise budget friendly ICS phone with a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, as well as the Kyocera Hydro -- their waterproof offering. Check out the hands-on video after the break.
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While HTC announced the new EVO 4G LTE for the Now Network last month, here at CTIA 2012 we are seeing it being showcased for its impressive camera capabilities and got some quick hands-on with the 4.7-inch 4G LTE equipped smartphone. Similar to the HTC One X, the EVO 4G LTE is an impressive phone so check it out below.
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Android has certainly come a long way from Google's first mention of the Open Handset Alliance, and little shows it quite so well as the Google Sooner. HTC's first prototype for Google's Android development, the Sooner was a non-touch QWERTY handset used for the earliest demos of the platform, five years ahead of flagships like the Galaxy S III and the One X. App developer and serial prototype acquirer Steve Troughton-Smith managed to pick up a Sooner device and has shared some details.
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The latest version of Android is now landing on Sony's Tablet S. Version 4.0, also known as Ice Cream Sandwich, is now being rolled out to device owners in the US. Ice Cream Sandwich is one of the biggest updates to Android yet, and includes such features as scanning your face to unlock the phone, a much more robust speech-to-text software program, and an entire platform of data sharing that focuses on Near Field Communication (NFC).
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Happy Thursday, everyone. We're coming up to the end of April, with bright hopes for amazing weather and happiness around the corner. And for one company, that's a pretty poignant analog to make right now - Nintendo. It just posted its first annual loss. But it's seen mostly as a fluke, as the next year will include the Wii U launch, which incidentally, is also in the news: Wii U with Android tipped for launch. Not all the news today was about Nintendo, though. There's still one particular smartphone thar's still making headlines - Galaxy S III guide appears in the wild.
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