SONY ERICSSON SMARTPHONES GETTING ICE CREAM SANDWICH IN MARCH 2012

Sony Ericsson announced that all its Xperia phones launched in 2011 will surely get Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.
Till now there was no confirmation of the time of update being rolled out. But the Sony Ericsson Italy site tells us that the update will officially rollout in March 2012.
These are the 11 lucky phones that will get the ICS update:
1. Live With Walkman
2. Xperia Neo
3. Xperia Neo V
4. Xperia Arc
5. Xperia Arc S
6. Xperia Mini
7. Xperia Mini Pro
8. Xperia Pro
9. Xperia Active
10. Xperia Ray
11. Xperia Play
So all the phones are actually getting the update. The company is in the process of putting its custom TimeScape UI on the OS.
The facebook post by Sony Ericsson Italy also said that they are the only company to update their entire lineup of smartphones to ICS from midrange to High end. One of the commenters also said that Samsung will not be updating its low end smartphones to ICS like the Galaxy Mini and Galaxy Y.
So if you have one of these SE smartphones, you will have to wait for 4 months for an ICS update and if you dont have one of these, this may be a good time to buy one.

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LG OPTIMUS 2X WILL GET A TASTE OF ICE CREAM SANDWICH AFTER GINGERBREAD

LG issued a statement recently about the uncertainty of the LG OPTIMUS 2X getting the ice cream sandwich update.
This created a lot of rumors saying the LG OPTIMUS 2x will never get the update. LG has now said the rumors are not true and an update for the 2x is already being worked on.
A Lot of LG customers were disgruntled because of these rumors.
The LG OPTIMUS 2X was the first phone to have a dual core CPU. It recently recieved the Gingerbread update on November 1st. The Optimus black and Optimus 3d will soon be updated to Android 2.3 Gingerbread too but no official word on the Ice cream sandwich update.

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NEW OPERA MINI AND MOBILE NOW AVAILABLE

Opera launched new versions of Opera Mini for Java, iOS, Blackberry and Symbian. They also launched a special Opera labs version for the Meego platform.
The Opera Mini version now available is 6.5 which was updated from version 6.1. The Opera Mobile version went from version 11.1 to 11.5.
The new features of these new versions are as follows:
1. Data usage can now be measured inside the browser. It also shows how much data you saved by using this browser. To use this feature just goto help>data usage
2. You can now bookmark a website by just pressing the star on the left of the URL.
3. Now the browser automatically imports the bookmarks from the native browser.
4. Better Opera turbo (only in Opera Mobile)
5. Better Video Support in Opera Mobile.
These features are definitely a step forward but personally I think they should update Opera Mini to 7.0 and include features like a proper download manager. Anyway you can download the new versions here m.opera.com

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