Android 4.0 on the market soon

Users who own a Samsung Nexus S will be the first to receive the update to Android 4.0, codenamed Ice Cream Sandwich. Among the novelties of this version of the Google operating system independence are, for the first time, the four hardware buttons that characterize smartphones “powered by Android” We refer to the Home button in the menu, the arrow go back to the key action and research. From 4 Android will finally be possible to do everything using the touch screen of your phone.


Other new features on Google’s mobile operating system are the ability to unlock the phone using facial recognition and the ability to share files using the NFC, Near Field Communications, a technology that allows you to read and write data at short distances.

With Android 4, Google also hopes to reduce the gap that currently exists between version 2 and 3 of the operating system. Android 2.x, available on smartphones, and Android 3.x, present on the tablet instead, are quite different in terms of graphic design, as well as for some functionality.

Considering that the latest smartphones out on the market are truly exceptional in hardware and an operating system that can run heavier for good, now try the card of Big G “reunification.”

At present not all users of the Nexus S are able to upgrade. Google has made it known that it is checking the feedback from early adopters who have used Ice Cream Sandwich, on the basis thereof, is optimizing its operating system. In short, in any case, everyone should receive the warning message about the possibility to download and install the new version of Android.

Also within a few weeks should receive this long awaited update also users who have a terminal Xperia, a Motorola Razr or Motorola Droid Bionic, and those who have the latest HTC terminals, even though the house has not yet announced Taiwanese models which will the update.