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Will the Motorola Atrix get Ice Cream Sandwich?
Friday, September 30th, 2011
We have had many users of the Motorola Atrix ask us if it will get Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, we don’t know the answer but here is what we do know. The answer is not as cut and dry as we would like but it seems there is a possibility that the Motorola Atrix will get Ice Cream Sandwich. This of course probably would not be an official release due to the fact that Gingerbread has only been on it for a short time. Also Motorola from past experience only releases one OS upgrade per device.
This being said the Motorola Atrix with the Gingerbread update allows developers to do much more than with its previous Froyo version of Android. Now that the Bootloader is able to be modified rather easily we can expect CyanogenMOD or a dev over at XDA to develop a compatible kernel at least to allow for better chances of Android 4.0.
With Ice Cream Sandwich being released in the next month or so we would expect it to be ported over to the Atrix soon after due to the phones user base. We will keep everyone posted as we find any information on Ice Cream Sandwich for the Atrix.
I love that I sign a 2-year contract, but my device is only supported for 6 months. =/
Ken, You sign a 2 year contract with AT&T not Motorola.
A 2 year contract is still a 2 year contract, and it is a bit of an insult to those who only recently purchased the phone to find out that it has been abandoned by the manufacturer. People outside the USA are still waiting for the GB update, never mind ICS. Sure you can unlock the bootloader and install CM7, or hopefully CM9 later on, but you lose the totally lose the webtop and most of the HDMI functionality.
the Atrix 2 will receive the update meaning google needs updates the fingerprint reader and the webtop partition or all we have to do is wait till a xda dev ports the 4.0 rom with those two features working, it will make no sense for currently released Motorola devices to not be supported if you did some reading before posting comments and articles Motorola was purchased by google so unless google opts out of updating current devices and only makes a update for future models then i will never purchase another android device why improve a file structure and other problem on some devices when you can reach a bigger audience with a more device supported update with almost no effort? i for one really hope that this merge brings us on the same level as apple so Motorola devices can once again be the best all we need is software and hardware to be worked on in the same importance