The Chinese manufacturer Huawei has a smartphone, announced at the beginning of next year gets an update to Android Ice Cream. Huawei is the first manufacturer that information about these future Android version.
According to Huawei, get Android Ice Cream version 4.0, reports PC Mag. At the time of release will be the Chinese manufacturer’s new smartphone from Android 2.3.3, with the update to Ice Cream sometime in 2012. Of Android Ice Cream is little more known than that the tabletversie Honeycomb and the smartphonevariant Gingerbread should merge into one version. Google announces the software probably in the fourth quarter, but up to now, manufacturers are still no promises made about devices that the new software will receive.
The device, that the name of Glory wears, features a 1.4 GHz processor from Qualcomm, with type number MSM8655T. That is an overclocked cdma-variant of the MSM8255, with a clock speed of 1GHz, which among other things, the HTC Desire HD runs. Because of the cdma chip, the device is not in the Netherlands may work. The screen has a diagonal of 4″, while the resolution 854 by 480 pixels. Photos can be taken with an 8-megapixel camera and a 1900mAh battery built in. Huawei provides the Glory, although of a private skin, but the interface differs little from the standard interface. Achieved Huawei is likely that the unit relatively quickly an update can be provided.
Huawei came already with a tablet that will run on Android Honeycomb with version 3.2. This version is still not officially by Google, announced. It seems, therefore, that the Chinese manufacturer good connections with Google. It is known that the internetgigant manufacturers of advance understanding of upcoming Android versions. Among others, HTC and Motorola have Google have previously gained access to new Android versions.
The Glory comes from the Us carrier Cricket Wireless and will receive a prize of $ 300. Thus, it is not expensive compared to other high-end smartphones. In november, the phone must be available.
