Google Employees Are Receiving Ice Cream Sandwich Upgrade 71
Android Police reports that Google employees have begun receiving the newest version of Android for their Nexus S phones in the form of over-the-air updates. CNET adds a note for the impatient that "the CyanogenMod project to build unofficial versions of Android is working on CM9, the version based on the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich source code. Early CM9 builds are available in alpha for the Samsung Nexus S and beta for the Samsung Galaxy S."
Somewhat disappointing.. (Score:3, Interesting)
I bought a Nexus S for the sole intention that I didn't want to bother with rooting my phone and whatnot, but I still wanted to get the Android updates right away.
I'm somewhat disappointed that CM9 will beat Google to updating my phone. I wouldn't mind rooting my phone to put ICS on it, but I'd rather not have to re-install everything. It seems you have to be rooted to make a full backup, and I need to make a backup before I root, so I'm pretty much stuck on stock.
If CM has the update before the Nexus phones do, then what is the point of buying a nexus phone? I might as well get whatever phone has the nicest hardware and just put CM on it if I can't rely on the updates being quicker from Google than CM.
Re:Stay with GB (Score:3, Interesting)
Apparently, my comment was too subtle. The increases in performance and stability going from CM7.1 to CM9A11 is night and day. ICS adds boatloads of paint, and a huge helping of new features and useful improvements in UI and system management. Additionally, battery life on my Nexus S has gone from about 10 hours max to 18.
Can't wait to see the official OTA.