14 DAY TRIAL // It looks like HTC feels the need to reiterate every month that the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich upgrade will be rolled out to most of its high-end devices, in the first half of the year.
Rumors on HTC’s planner for the Ice Cream Sandwich upgrade have come and gone, but the company has yet to make any official announcements regarding the exact release dates for its lineup of Android smartphones.
Last month, HTC Turkey published on its official Facebook account an interesting table containing Ice Cream Sandwich release dates for no less than nine smartphones. However, the company quickly pulled the information, which probably means that most of the data was inaccurate.
Based on the information received from HTC over the last three months, it appears that the Taiwanese handset maker plans to deploy the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich to the following smartphones: HTC Vivid, HTC Sensation, HTC Sensation XL and HTC Sensation XE, HTC Rezound, HTC EVO 3D, HTC EVO Design 4G and HTC Amaze 4G.
Today, HTC confirmed once again that it would push Ice Cream Sandwich to the Sensation XE “early this year.” In reply to a tweet coming from an HTC Sensation XE owner, the company said:
“Yup, ICS will be coming to the Sensation XE early this year, Dean! We'll let you know when we have a more specific release date.”
On a side note, HTC will probably upgrade more of Android devices to Ice Cream Sandwich, but none of them have been confirmed yet, though they have appeared on the HTC Turkey Facebook page: HTC Flyer, HTC Rhyme, HTC Incredible S, HTC Wildfire S, HTC Desire HD, HTC Desire, HTC Salsa, HTC ChaCha and HTC Desire Z.
There’s no telling exactly when HTC starts rolling out Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich for any of its smartphone, but at least we know most of the devices confirmed will get it in Q1 2012.
