First-generation phone runs fourth-generation Android

A dissent of Ice Cream Sandwich on the first-generation Android phone, the 2008-era T-Mobile G1.

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screenshot by author Shankland/CNET)

Running a newborn free edition of Windows or
Mac OS X on a three-year senior individualized machine is an unremarkable feat.

But it’s a aggregation more arduous in the smartphone world, where element and cipher hit been dynamical at a breakneck pace. That’s ground I propose watching this short dissent of Ice Cream Sandwich, aka Android 4.0, on the first-generation Android phone, the T-Mobile G1 from Oct 2008.

XDA Developers installation member jcarrz1 posted the recording and an alpha edition of his OS physique yesterday, figure life after Google free the Ice Cream Sandwich maker code.

As you haw expect, the newborn OS drags on the comparatively ancient hardware, with andante app launches and daylong lags between a contact state and the phone’s response. But every the ICS apps work.

What doesn’t impact at this stage, jcarrz1 said: Wi-Fi networking, Bluetooth, and concealment rotation.

Ice Cream Sandwich arrived a hebdomad past on the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, a such more coercive device. It’s not country still which beyond a containerful of phones module intend the ICS upgrade, but jcarrz1′s impact shows that playing reasons, not profession reasons, are most probable answerable for ownership it soured newer phones.

The underway edition of Apple’s ambulatory operative system, iOS 5, requires a 2009-era
iPhone 3GS or newer phone. In the
Android realm, it’s inferior ordinary to wager the stylish OS based on senior phones.

In the ICS on G1 demo, jcarrz1 shows the unlock screen, the settings app, the sound app, and the clock. I’m guessing we won’t be sight Riptide GP some instance soon, though.

Via Antuan Goodwin

A dissent of Ice Cream Sandwich on the first-generation Android phone, the 2008-era T-Mobile G1.

(Credit:
screenshot by author Shankland/CNET)