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Google confirms Nexus S will get Ice Cream Sandwich (Gingerbread devices too)

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I was hoping my trusty old Nexus One would be able to hop on to the ICS bandwagon.The Update at the bottom just dashed my hopes after the headline raised them. In my opinion none of the more recent Nexuses have been able to match it for looks (Nexus S looks positively ugly).

It is a disgrace that a phone I bought less than 2 years ago will not run the latest OS.

Not really, but just jumping on the OS bashing bandwagon, a few hates did with iOs 4/5.

Nexus S is pretty much a given—it came out this year. The real question is the Nexus One. As an N1 owner, I hope so.

without any new hardware requirements I think a lot of phones will see ICS, if not officially than through many of the great roms available. I have a fairly old phone running latest cm7 gingerbread and it still runs great. Looking forward to ICS.

ICS does look much nicer, can't wait till CyanogenMod offers this (if they do).

There's no "phone must have at least 2 core CPU" requirement somewhere is there?

The question is what happens when the phone has actual hardware buttons and you port the OS to it which has virtual buttons in it...that gets weird I think...

Are you seriously considering the fact that virtual buttons will be always present regardless of the presence of hardware buttons ?

The way he showed the virtual buttons last night made them seem highly customizable by each app for different purposes. So once app creators start making these custom virtual buttons for their apps, they will not have multiple versions of their app for phones with and without hardware buttons...

its not really a big deal. I have no doubts you'll be able to hide them on phones that have hardware buttons.

Is there going to be source code for this release?

Yes. They said that they didn't release the source for Honeycomb because there was no support for smaller devices because they were "cutting corners". I closed the tab a few minutes ago otherwise I'd have the link for you.

Found the link: http://thisismynext.com/2011/10/18/exclusive-matias-duarte-i...

This is the exact quote: “On Honeycomb we cheated, we cut the corner of all that smaller device support. That’s the sole reason we haven’t open sourced it.”

Great, now all I have to do is to either jailbreak my Galaxy S or wait 2 years for an official upgrade.

The Galaxy phones are some of the most resilient and fool proof devices for flashing.

As a fellow Galaxy S owner, install a custom rom, darkkys or similar, it makes it a new phone, much zippier and they'll have ice cream sandwhich going not long after the source is released (and it is being released)

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