Motorola said Friday that it is now rolling out the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update to a select few Motorola Xoom owners.
“The Ice Cream Sandwich update has been deployed to a small number of users for testing,” a Motorola spokeswoman said in a statement. “We will confirm additional details when the upgrade becomes broadly available.”
As reported by AndroidCentral, the chosen users received an email with details about the ICS upgrade. Motorola did not disclose how many Xoom owners were chosen for the test.
Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich was first announced at a joint Google-Samsung event in Hong Kong in late October, and Google released the OS’s source code about a month later. The first device with ICS, the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, made its debut overseas on Nov. 17, with the U.S. version on Verizon Wireless following suit on Dec. 15.
Major device manufacturers, from LG to Samsung, have pledged to update many of their Android-based devices to ICS, but nailing down exact dates can be difficult—prompting PCMag’s Jamie Lendino to say recently that Google’s Android Update Alliance Is Already Dead. On the tablet front, however, Asus was scheduled to start rolling out ICS to its Eee Pad Transformer Prime yesterday.
[PCMag]
