The long-awaited “Ice Cream Sandwich” update for the original EeePad Transformer is now available in the UK, with Asus copying across the necessary files it made available in Taiwan yesterday . Some users in the US received it earlier today, some are still waiting.
We’re now seeing multiple reports from users in the UK and Ireland saying the update notification is now appearing on tablets and the download is underway, so it’s out there and working its way through the ether to everyone’s Transformers. It’ll never be the same again.
Let us know how you get on with it if you’re a member of the Asus club. A discounted TF101 with Android 4.0 onboard has to be one of 2012′s possible budget Android highlights. If the price of the thing ever goes down.
The Panasonic Eluga marks the company’s return to the European mobile phone scene years after several years of absence, and it’s come back to us with a moderately high-spec Android model that features a rather stylish, slim case.
The HTC One V is HTC’s third entry in its high-profile new HTC One range, offering a smaller 3.7″ display running on a single-core 1GHz processor. It is is very much the “affordable” option in HTC’s newest Android series, but…
The HTC One S is the piggy in the middle of HTC’s 2012 line-up, offering a 4.3″ AMOLED display inside a very slim and stylish aluminium chassis. The end result is a phone that’s very, very slim and stylish.
HTC’s new quad-core monster, the 4.7″ flagship for 2012 that introduces the Tegra 3 processor to mobile phones, updates HTC’s range to Android 4.0 and brings us the supposedly streamlined version 4.0 of HTC’s Sense user interface.
Sony returns with an all-new mobile design for 2012, pairing a dual-core processor with a 720p display. It’s a lovely phone, but is it enough to end our Samsung and HTC obsession?
LG’s updated Prada phone comes with an absolutely crazy black & white theme, but is it just for fashionable suit wearers who want to make themselves look a bit more interesting?
Baz
/ February 24, 2012Downloading now, thanks
Chris Eden-Pratt
/ February 24, 2012I checked ebay and even £250 doesn’t get you a second hand one with keyboard dock. Looking at least £300.
Gary_C
/ February 24, 2012Probably going to go UP in value now, too :(
MarkG
/ February 24, 2012Why should it? It’s the only tablet (aside from the ipad) that’s managed to maintain it’s RRP for over a year, simply because it’s the best tablet out there bar none (not even the ipad2 comes close).
Todays update made it even better. 50% speed improvements when it was already pretty nifty. Thanks very much.
Jonny
/ February 24, 2012Installing right now! :-)
metalmickey
/ February 24, 2012First job when I get in from work….
Sod the wife & kids: )
John
/ February 24, 2012I update this morning and after a few hours of playing about with ICS, no problems to report?. Some cool new features as well. A very happy bunny
Richard W. Jones
/ February 24, 2012It won’t install on mine. It downloads OK, reboots OK, goes part way through installing, and stops with that yellow exclamation mark in a triangle superimposed on the droid. If I don’t manually switch it off, it automatically reboots, and a message then tells me that the update failed. Not impressed.
W84IQ
/ February 24, 2012Installed fine on mine, I’m guessing you don’t have enough room on it to finish. Try freeing some space.
MarkG
/ February 24, 2012Rooted device…. Did you really think it would install on a non standard unit?
Richard W. Jones
/ February 26, 2012Unrooted as it happens. And no custom recovery installed, either. I managed to install it in the end by running the previous update installation, then ICS. I can’t say I like ICS that much.
Turbohobbit
/ February 24, 2012GOT IT!!!
Ikmal Zulkarnain
/ February 25, 2012Just updated mine. Was bought back home in Malaysia but now working fine in Lancaster. Brilliant!
Peter Bus
/ February 26, 2012I updated last night and everything went just smooth. I think one of the biggest improvements is the possibility to turn of the wake up function of the mobile dock. This saves a lot of batttery. Allso the keybord of the dockin station works better. No more delays between typing and on screen information. So, at first sight I’m verry happy.
Chinaboy5216
/ March 10, 2012Hi guys, i have a Chinese sku nd was wondering wheb the OTA for China would come out. Any idea someone?
Thx,
Getting very inpatient as my Ainol NOVO7 Elf came pre installed ith ICS 4.0.3, at a cost of around 75 EURO by the way.
……. compared to what i payed for the tf101 hmmm …….
Yumiko
/ March 22, 2012I really like the new update, but there is one thing bugging me.. On the old camera, I had effects such as Black&White, Negative, Sepia.. but now they’re gone.
I loved the B&W effect on my camera, but now on the new version I have to go into programs and edit to get that. The hell. Why did they remove those features from the very beginning?