The Samsung Galaxy S2 will be getting Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, the company’s UK arm has confirmed this week via Twitter.
While it should come as no surprise – even six months on, the Samsung Galaxy S2 is still just about the most powerful phone on the market, and to ignore it would be a shock – it is reassuring to see Samsung publicly committing to it.
Ice Cream Sandwich, which launches on the Galaxy Nexus today, includes many new features, including face recognition unlock, improved voice commands and dictations, an overhauled UI and better multi-taking, with screenshots of each running app.
No dates are being thrown around just yet, but we wouldn’t expect it until early next year: Samsung’s TouchWiz skin will require some modification, where as last year’s Samsung made Nexus S runs vanilla Android, and is expected to get the upgrade in a matter of weeks. Whether Samsung’s original Galaxy S gets the upgrade is still to be decided.
Check out just what Ice Cream Sandwich is capable of in the video below.
