Motorola to release first Android 4.0 devices six weeks after final ICS build [updated]

By on Oct 25, 2011 at 11:35 AM
mobile October 25, 2011

Motorola Mobility announced on its Twitter account Tuesday that it will release devices powered by Google’s latest Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) operating system six weeks after Google releases the final build. “We’ll be releasing devices for ICS 6 weeks after Google releases the final version of it,” a company representative wrote on Motorola’s Twitter account. The company already confirmed that it will update the DROID RAZR, its latest smartphone, to the new operating system in early 2012. It is unclear what Motorola has up its sleeve, although we suspect it has both new tablets and smartphones coming down the pipeline. Android 4.0 offers an entirely revamped user interface, a new Android Bump feature for sharing content using near-field communications (NFC), resizable widgets and more. The first device to offer the operating system is Samsung’s Galaxy Nexus, which will be available from Verizon Wireless “later this year.”

UPDATE: In a second tweet posted some time later, Motorola suggests that it was referring to software updates for existing devices rather than new Ice Cream Sandwich device launches. “We’ve communicated that we are planning to upgrade DROID RAZR (as well as Motorola RAZR, DROID BIONIC, and Motorola XOOM) to Ice Cream Sandwich, and will provide more precise guidance on timing within 6 weeks post public push of ICS by Google,” a Motorola spokesperson told BGR in a statement.

[Via Mobile Burn]

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  • Anonymous

    #believeItWhenSeeIt

  • Anonymous

    From AC:

    Update: And proving our point that Twitter isn’t exactly the best way to go about something like this, Motorola has deleted any Tweet that references doing anything with a 6-week window. Carry on.

  • Dr Sauch

    I prefer Android over Apple/iOS, but I’m not an Apple hater.  I respect the things that Apple excels at.  One of those things is marketing and product management.  You get an announcement, a pre-order date, and a release date.  None of this nonsense about “announce the OS, reveal some devices maybe, announce the devices, announce a tentative date, blow the date, name another date, revise three or four times, and then ultimately release the product when the next product rumors have started.”

    I understand this is a result of having “too many cooks int he kitchen” (Google, the carrier, and the manufacturer), but Jesus Christ, can’t these companies get it together?

    • broken monkey

      PREACH!

    • Anonymous

      Your SOO right and why I stay far away from Android right now.

    • Anonymous

      Your are so right, this is something I have been peaching about on the blog space for over a year now…
      After owning different android powered devices I switched my personal smartphone to an iPhone and I love it.
      Because I’m out if that mess of google releasing an OS, hoping the Chinese or Korean maker of your phone will work on an update for your phone, then hoping the carrier will push the update. If all that happens you still have to wait for the OTA servers to get to you. What if you don’t like the custome GUI on the phone with a mix of carrier branding, blot ware and other stuff; well now your on XDA looking for a good stock ROM. I have to admit I had I bit of fun hacking my android phones playing with ROMS, but the fun came to an end with these locked boot loaders. And at the end of the day I just need a phone that works…

  • Keir Stiegler

    I think this was actually a reference to a timeline of WHICH devices will actually be receiving ICS, not a timeline of when devices would truly be receiving it… Droid-life ftw!

  • http://twitter.com/Robaseyal Rob Lawn

    Motorola getting special treatment already

    • Anonymous

      Of course. Everyone saw this coming along with HTC and Samsung.

      By the time ICS gets on the new Razr, it will be an outdated phone. You Android fools!

      • http://twitter.com/GRZLA Grizzly Atoms

        That outdated Razr smashes an iPhone 4s.

      • Anonymous

        LMAO! Why? Some stupid widgets and an outdated GB OS?

      • Anonymous

        @ Sith_Lord
        Chuckle.  Don’t you mean delusional?
        Besides the fact as a former iPhone 4 user, I can set the 4S side by side with my Galaxy S2 and watch the Galaxy outperform the 4S in almost all areas.
        Add to that I have 4G for the next two years while you are limited to 3G.
        Best of luck with that.

      • http://twitter.com/GRZLA Grizzly Atoms

        @Sith_Lord:disqus By the time the RAZR hits selves ICS will not be out. Thus Gingerbread is the most up to date version that can be on the phone. Even with Motoblur on this thing it smashes the iPhone 4s out of the park. The iPhone 4s is/was one of Apple’s worst moves as of late. Congrats on that iPad processor and beta voice recognition that stores your information on the server it uses to funnel those questions to wolfram. Now that is the future.

      • Anonymous

        @rhonin:disqus  Unless your a bandwidth hogging whore that tethers all day, why do I need LTE right now? yet, all the benchmark test show the 4S is faster than the GII.Now, I will agree with Grizzly Atoms, that the 4S was NOT Apple best move lately.

      • Anonymous

        Are you serious? outdated!!! IOS5 is outdated compared froyo, You’re fuckin retard and You call yourself a sith lord more like gay lord.:)

      • Anonymous

        Froyo sucks Wookie Balls! Fragmented, slow and dated POS!

        Oooooh. You threw out the gay bomb. :rolleyes

      • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_WZV2EUHGC5LI7TZC2CY5QV7E54 david

        do you really spend your whole day posting about your iphone? why do yall feel the need to defend that peice of shit all the time. i thought it was the best??? 

        thats like a ford mustang owner telling a lamborghini owner why their car is better . you would never find the lamborghini owner explaining their car to a mustang owner. its just beneath them. Every article I read about android , theirs more ios owners posting then android . 

        Look I understand , you dont want to come to the dark side cause youll lose all the money you spent in apps, i get it , im stuck with the ipad the same way. but i dont go bashing android tablets . im also not gonna make ipad look like its perfect either. the apps lock up on me , ill have to reboot the whole thing to get it running again. truth be told , if i had it to do over again , i would have gotten a mac book air 
         

    • Anonymous

      nope, if you look at motorola’s history (at least on verizon). You would notice they have a history of releasing updates the earliest(other then the manufacturer of the nexus device) and always get the most updates.

      If this was special treatment motorola phones would be getting the update same day as the Nexus devices.

  • Anonymous

    If it’s the same release as what other sites had yesterday, the statement needs to be reread.  

    It basically goes, the Razr, Bionic, and Xoom will receive ICS.  Then within 6 weeks after Google releases ICS, Motorola will announce additional devices that will also be upgraded to ICS.

  • http://twitter.com/ocdtrekkie Jake Weisz

    Check Engadget, BGR. You’re wrong. They’ll release a list of devices getting ICS 6 weeks after, not the devices themselves.

  • Anonymous

    BGR is kidding right?  Every other site had this come out originally yesterday, then debunked it with further comment from Moto clarifying their position as 6 weeks is when they will ANNOUNCE which devices will receive it.  Somehow BGR missed all of that part.

    BGR is becoming a joke with their reporting lately.   Between the Apple butt-kissing and these 1/2 -reported stories ..   Oy vey ..

    • Zac Caslin

      So why are you here reading it?

      • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_WZV2EUHGC5LI7TZC2CY5QV7E54 david

        lol, good point

  • riggs royena

    Sweet! you mean I only have to wait almost 2 months for the next update on my device that i just bought a week ago!

    • Anonymous

      Notice how it said ICS Final, the Galaxy Nexus does not come with ICS Final. IT will be at least 3-4 months after the Galaxy Nexus that other devices get it.

  • ICS EEKS LIKE A RAT

    ICS’s final build? Just admit that ICS (eeks) announcement with a device EEKS like a filthy RAT. Google, Motorola and Samsung are not ready yet. What they’re really saying to their customers is, “hang in there, just hang in there, even if it takes as 6 months to sort this freaking kinks out”.

    Meanwhile Nokia and Microsoft are set to announce their first Windows device/s tomorrow.

    • Anonymous

      You completely don’t understand Open Source build cycles. ICS is not suppose to be ready, unlike how it is with microsoft which keeps their beta cycle closed, in open source the beta cycle is available to the public. So when microsoft gives out dev phones for example, that is the beginning of the beta cycle at microsoft. In Google cycle the development device, the Nexus line is available to everyone. Once it is perfected and ready for release ( 3 – 4 month ). That is when other production phones begin to receive updates.

  • Anonymous

    Android will be dead in two years 👊😜 true story™©®

    • Anonymous

      That is what you said 2 years ago.

  • Anonymous

    How come everything is always getting revamped but still sucks in android?

    Sucky is the only constant in Android world.

    • http://twitter.com/GRZLA Grizzly Atoms

      This kid has never touched an Android phone.

    • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_WZV2EUHGC5LI7TZC2CY5QV7E54 david

      suck so bad , you keep posting about them?

  • kdevil

    Ya keep on piling on stuff no one needs… How about making the exisiting OS work with Cisco VPN ?
    Anyone in Googorola heard of VPN or for that matter.. Cisco ? Fix android issue 3902. Without that you guys are just a joke in the corporate world.

    • Anonymous

      Get a Galaxy S2, it has support for Cisco.

    • http://twitter.com/GRZLA Grizzly Atoms

      As soon as I read this I google’d and what you mention is fully supported in ICS. You want to eat me shoe?

      • kdevil

        You are right. But I had no way to know. They bug wiki page got updated only today, after my post … so that gives me an excuse to not eat your shoe :)

    • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR6HpRLyzMY Walter Sobchak

      My links keep being moderated. I guess I have to tell you how cheap I got an ipad to get a link through.
      Droid-life just had a post saying ics supports it natively.

    • kdevil

      Okay some android developer updated the bug wiki page saying issue 3902 is fixed in ICS. Yay!!.. Blessings to you Mr. developer..

  • Anonymous

    Todd, it’s Android BEAM not Android Bump. Seriously dude…..

  • Notsomuch

    Just like the Xoom 4g upgrade was going to happen just weeks after the release. Okay Motorola, we believe you.

  • Anonymous

    And what bout my Atrix??

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