Google Nexus One will not receive the update to Android ICS’

Android chief Hugo Barra has announced that the Nexus One cannot update to the new Android version Ice Cream Sandwich will get. Barra claims that the hardware of the smartphone is not powerful enough for the new version.

Reports that the British newspaper The Telegraph, which Barra an interview declined. The claim of Androids product management director is striking: Google had previously know that any device that Android Gingerbread can handle, also suitable for ICS and the Nexus One has recently released a software update to Gingerbread.

The claim of Barra is also refuted by the development of custom ICS-roms for the Nexus One. With a port of the sdk, which Google recently released, third parties, the new operating system on the smartphone to the talk.

The ceo confirmed that the Nexus S, the second Google phone, the update to ICS in a few weeks will receive. The recently announced Galaxy Nexus is the first device that is standard with Android ICS comes. This smartphone will come in december in the Netherlands.