An exhibition of Frozen Treats Sandwich around the first-generation Android phone, the 2008-era T-Mobile G1.
(Credit: screenshot by Stephen Shankland/CNET)Managing a recently launched version of Home windows or Mac OS X on the 3-year-old pc is definitely an unremarkable task.
But it is much more difficult within the smartphone world, where software and hardware happen to be altering in a breakneck pace. This is exactly why I suggest watching this brief illustration showing Frozen Treats Sandwich, also known as Android 4., around the first-generation Android phone, the T-Mobile G1 from October 2008.
XDA Designers forum member jcarrz1 published the recording as well as an alpha version of his OS build yesterday, nine days after Google launched the Frozen Treats Sandwich source code.
Since you may expect, the brand new OS drags around the comparatively ancient hardware, with slow application launches and lengthy lags from a touch action and also the phone's response. But all of the ICS applications work.
What does not work on this stage, jcarrz1 stated: Wi-Fi networking, Bluetooth, and screen rotation.
Frozen Treats Sandwich showed up the other day around the Samsung Universe Nexus, an infinitely more effective device. It isn't obvious yet which beyond a number of phones can get the ICS upgrade, but jcarrz1's work implies that business reasons, not technology reasons, are likely accountable for keeping the weight off more recent phones.
The present version of Apple's mobile operating-system, iOS 5, takes a 2009-era apple iphone 3GS or more recent phone. Within the Android realm, it's less frequent to determine the most recent OS supported on older phones.
Within the ICS on G1 demo, jcarrz1 shows the unlock screen, the configurations application, the telephone application, and also the clock. I am speculating we will not be seeing Riptide GP in the near future, though.
Via Antuan Goodwin
An exhibition of Frozen Treats Sandwich around the first-generation Android phone, the 2008-era T-Mobile G1.
(Credit: screenshot by Stephen Shankland/CNET)
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