android Nexus S getting Android 4.0 starting today, GSM models first

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

Nexus S getting Android 4.0 starting today, GSM models first

It's undoubtedly been a tough wait for Nexus S customers watching the Galaxy Nexus deploy on three continents over the last few weeks with Android 4.0 on board ? but all things considered, the wait won't be a long one, particularly considering that the new model just launched for the first time in the US yesterday. Google has just announced that the Nexus S ? Gingerbread's premiere device back in November of last year ? will be upgraded to Ice Cream Sandwich over-the-air starting today and proceeding over the course of the coming month. As always, it's going to be a rolling release (though we imagine it won't take very long for the Android community to suss out the upgrade file and provide a direct link). GSM models come first, while users of Sprint's Nexus S 4G will need to wait a little more, but all indications are that it shouldn't be long.

Source: The Verge

[Roger H. Veteran]

w00t! :woot: no longer have my Nexus S but good to see it's going out. Source code should help other models out there based off that device :)

[still1]

Thats nice.... So is it based of 4.0 or 4.0.3 that Google released today?

[ichi]

Thats nice.... So is it based of 4.0 or 4.0.3 that Google released today?

According xda-devs it looks like it's 4.0.3.

[ichi]

I couldn't bother waiting for the OTA so I just downloaded and installed it myself.

One thing I've found annoying so far is that app folders apparently can only contain 16 apps :/ on 2.3.6 I could scroll down through whatever number of apps I had in a folder, but now as soon as I have 16 apps in a folder if I try to add another app it just drops the app icon on the desktop near the folder.

[Muhammad Farrukh]

w00t! :woot: no longer have my Nexus S but good to see it's going out. Source code should help other models out there based off that device :)

You wish you still had it?

[Roger H. Veteran]

You wish you still had it?

Sometimes I do, it wasn't a bad device. It's not like I got the SGS2 because the other one wasn't powerful enough or something. I just liked the design better :)

[Muhammad Farrukh]

No doubt, Nexus S is one of the very best looking devices on the market

[fsX]

Apparently we don't deserve face unlock because the front camera is too slow and/or too low-res.

[c3ntury]

Yet another reason why it's sometimes best to stick with the OEM closest to the people who make the software itself haha.

[still1]

Any idea when ATT nexus S update comes out? It seems like the update is only out for T-Mobile Nexus S.

[still1]

Its been more than two weeks now... any update on when they are going to push it again?

This is bad.....