Droid 4 won't get Ice Cream Sandwich for at least 4-6 months

[B-Unit]

May-July at worst.

 

[patmw123]

My guess is late Q3 at the earliest. With that said, I could still see it never getting ICS, should the Moto team have as much trouble building from source (like that of the CyanogenMod team). Factor in Moto blur and all of the various bloat apps (from both Verizon and Moto) and it just sounds like a mess. I sure hope I'm wrong, but you never know.

 

[RoninX]

I'd bet on Q2.

 

[AZClimber]

I've been thinking about this a lot today, and tonight I feel like I've had a change of heart.

When the D4 first leaked, I was ecstatic. No other device was even on my radar. Coming from the OG Droid, I knew that the D4, with its 4G and awesome keyboard and dual core processor, would basically be a more awesome version of the phone I currently own and have been so happy with.

But after reading the Motorola blog post, I was turned off. On some level I already knew this, but it hit me that the Motorola of today is not the Motorola of two years ago that produced a true, vanilla Android device. I don't consider myself a slave to consumerism, and I don't feel the need to own the newest device on the day it's released (I am still using an OG Droid, after all) but 6 months is a long time in the world of consumer technology, and if I'm spending $300 on a new device, receiving major software updates 6 months late and riddled with bloatware is unacceptable.

I've had a Droid for two years, and I had a RAZR for many years before that...but the direction Motorola is taking is not one I feel I can, or should, support. I hope that with the Google merger, Motorola will start making Google Experience Devices again...but until then, I think buying a Motorola Android product is a bad decision.

So...my thoughts are turning towards the Galaxy Nexus. The plastic and absence of a physical keyboard will take some getting used to, but I think it's a better decision at this point.

I totally agree with you except with the part about buying a Nexus.

And yes the bloatware sucks but so does my TV and internet with all the commercials - it's called "out-of-control-commercialism" - It's the price we are paying for all this technology and greed.

Brought my GNex back last week and traded it in for the Maxx.

I too was going with the D4 but decided to go with the Maxx after test driving my friends and using the virtual QWERTY (damn good). The Razor Maxx build quality, stainless steel core, gorilla glass, kevlar back, better phone reception (yes the most important feature of a phone IMO), I can read the screen outside, splash proof, killer battery life, more reliable…it is just much more of a premium phone than the Galaxy Nexus, which feels cheap, very poor reception, very high return rate but excellent screen (if you're inside) and ICS. Having the better battery life and having to wait up to six months for ICS is a no brainer, you'll eventually have the best of both worlds!
:icon_ lala:

 

[RoninX]

My guess is late Q3 at the earliest. With that said, I could still see it never getting ICS, should the Moto team have as much trouble building from source (like that of the CyanogenMod team). Factor in Moto blur and all of the various bloat apps (from both Verizon and Moto) and it just sounds like a mess. I sure hope I'm wrong, but you never know.

The RAZR, RAZR Maxx, and Droid 4 are all exactly the same phone in terms of the internal components. If one of them gets ICS, then all of them will. And I find it hard to imagine that Moto won't update any of its flagship phones to ICS...

 

[patfactorx]

The Nexus S is still waiting for ICS btw. Its not a Motorola problem.

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[tdpolo26]

just fyi DROID 4 by MOTOROLA - Android 4G Smartphone - Overview - Motorola Mobility, Inc. USA if you click more features it say ics upgradeable so it will be getting it i am sure just god knows when it will be comming. I remember there were builds for froyo 3 months before they hit the ota...and those were less intense upgrade.

 

[IDroid4s]

ICS will be available when the Droid 5 is out, and still at least 2 months after that

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[akhi216]

Given the unknown release date for the D4, it might get delayed long enough so that it releases with ICS out-of-the-box, as opposed to a future update.

ROFL! The D4 was released last month.

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[mccompunerd]

Given the unknown release date for the D4, it might get delayed long enough so that it releases with ICS out-of-the-box, as opposed to a future update.

Unknown release date??? The Droid 4 was released a month ago today with Gingerbread just like the Razr and Razr Maxx.
Thanks to Hashcode and others there are already ICS roms available, but no timeline on official ICS support.

 

[r314bd]

ROFL! The D4 was released last month.

Unknown release date??? The Droid 4 was released a month ago today

Styrisvps is a spammer, just ignore him. His post is an exact copy of the third post in this thread.

 

[sargentmajord]

Motorola made a post on its blog today about the procedure for converting Android source code into a format compatible with Motorola devices, and it's not pretty. We're looking at 4-6 months, at a minimum.

Motorola Update on Ice Cream Sandwich | The Official Motorola Blog - Motorola Mobility, Inc. USA
Motorola Details the Ice Cream Sandwich Upgrade Process for Their Phones, Are We Really 6 months Away From Seeing it? – Droid Life: A Droid Community Blog

Thats old news its been up in the bionic forum since november of last yr

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[Kas84]

I've never heard of an Android phone being delayed for the sole purpose of getting the latest version of Android. The Droid Bionic was an kind of an exception but the original model got scrapped. The Thunderbolt, Droid Charge, and the Revolution were all released with Android 2.2/Froyo when Android 2.3/Gingerbread was available for 3 months at the least. Carriers never have a problem releasing phones that don't have the latest update bwcause they know that they can have an upsate pushed out. The thing is that it takes like 9 months to have a phone ready for launch. They can't just hold the phones to make updates for the phones because the updates have to be approved by the carrier, and unfortunately for us, if they did we'd never see devices; look how long it to HTC, LG, and Samsung to get updates approved by Verizon.



I'm scared to root a phone with a locked bootloader. And even if I did root it, I wouldn't be able to fully enjoy root access, thus to me it isn't wort the risk. If it's released and doesn't have ICS on it within 3 months, I'm just gonna pull the trigger and suck it up.

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Locked bootloader shmootloader. I rooted my phone weeks ago and it was one of the easiest and best decisions I've ever made with a mobile device. Totally worth the risk. Search YOUTUBE for Droid 4 root--it's like a 5 min video tutorial and it was straightforward as all hell.

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