Then, I believe you have to wait just a little more as our favorite leaker, Eldar Murtazin has confirmed that Samsung will officially release the 4.0 version of Android A.K.A Ice Cream Sandwich from March 1.

However, contract-tied or carrier-tied smartphones may have to see a delay for the creamy update, but Samsung’s Kies software will begin pumping in the release of the all-new operating system on 1 March, Murtazin reports in a tweet today.

Next month seems to be the month where it is expected that smartphone makers such as HTC and Sony Ericsson will begin updating their supported devices to the public.

Google shelled out its ICS code to phone and tablet creators in November last year.

The South Korean electronics powerhouse will be setting up a press conference in France on March 22nd, but much to the disappointment of Samsung fans, it will not be revealing the most wanted smartphone at the moment which is Galaxy S3 at the event.

Since Samsung announced the event, there has been a lot of buzz among the media that reported the newest addition to the popular Galaxy series that would be the center of attention.

The French event, however, will focus on the company’s already-on-the-market product portfolio, a Samsung representative reported to The Next Web. Fresh reports discuss that the handset will instead be unveiled in April and released in May.

The Galaxy S III is rumored to be 7 millimeters thick, and will be sporting, for the first time, a quad-core processor, 2GB of RAM, an 8-megapixel rear camera, a 2-megapixel front camera, a Super AMOLED Plus display and Android’s latest offering, the 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.

Triple Town developer Spry Fox has filed suit against 6Waves LOLAPPS for developing Yeti Town accusing it as a total rip off of their own game.

CEO of Spry Fox, David Edery have release a statement on his blog titled “Standing up for ourselves“. You can download their full legal complaint here.

Spry Fox have since released their game for the iOS and Android Market and is asking the gaming community for our support of their IP and to ostracize the clones.

Only recently another case have come about when Zynga copied Nimblebit’s Tiny Towers and released their own version of it title Dream Heights. Some people have come out and said that game copying is just another facet of game development as everybody copies somebody else’s ideas.

What say you gamers? Let us know what you think in the comments below.

There is a report indicating HTC will announce their first quad-core tablet at the MWC expo next year.

The Chinese Commercial Times says it will be using the Nvidia quad-core Tegra 3 processor but other than that, there are no other details. The newspaper also reported that HTC will announce two Android phones at the MWC expo, one presumably with the Tegra 3 chip. The two phones are most probably the HTC Edge and the HTC Ville.

The MWC expo will be on February 27th of next year.

Source: Digitimes via Phonearena

Google has announced there will be a special Android themed event coming on November 16th. With only the words “These Go To Eleven” on the top to go by. You can catch the livestream at Youtube.com/Android

Source: Engadget

The Asus Transformer Prime, the first quad-core tablet in the world was officially announced yesterday. With the announcement, a number of details was confirmed and this will definitely excite many Android fans.

Firstly, the news everyone has been waiting for – the specs. The Transformer Prime has a 10″ Super IPS+ display with 1280×800 resolution and Gorilla Glass protection, NVIDIA’s Tegra 3 quad-core processor, 1GB of RAM, 8 megapixel rear camera with 1080p HD recording plus a 1.2 megapixel front-facing camera, SonicMaster audio, microSD slot and HDMI port, and quoted 12 hours of battery life, which turned out to be video playback time. Asus apps from the first Transformer will also be available and will have Polaris Office and SuperNote pre-installed.

The keyboard dock will cost $149 and will add an additional 6 hours of battery life with a USB 2.0 port and SD card slot. The tablet will come with Honeycomb 3.2 but Asus will be spilling the beans on the ICS update next month.

When we think of portable gaming, we think about Nintendo first and mostly. With their early dominance with the Gameboy line of handhelds and later on the DS line. They were the clear cut leaders even with the inclusion of Sony and their PSP. But there are new players in the arena that is taking the market share away from these two behemoths.

Both Android and IOS are fast taking over the market with their solid quality and premium games being offered as low as $0.99. With the market shifting to emphasize more on digital downloads, Nintendo and Sony is finding it hard to compete with their old model of physical games purchases.

Flurry, a mobile applications analytics company, released a report today that shows the distribution of U.S. portable game software revenue over the last three years. IOS and Android have managed to grow from only 19% of the market in 2009 to an amazing 58% in 2011. While Sony and Nintendo has dropped from 11% and 70% in 2009 to 6% and 36% respectively.

This shift in revenue is leading people to question whether Nintendo and Sony can compete with this two new players in the market. Even with this huge shift, there will always be a demand to play their exclusive IPs, so all is not lost.

Just recently, Sony has added a bunch of their earlier PlayStation titles straight into their Android-powered Sony Tablet S.

The tablet which saw a release in U.S. and Canada as well as other seven countries, getting digitized titles from the first PlayStation Console, commonly known as PS1 and PSX.

Here are the list of the titles:

• Cool Boarders
• Destruction Derby
• Hot Shots Golf 2
• Jet Moto
• Jet Moto 2
• Jumping Flash!
• MediEvil
• Motor Toon Grand Prix
• Rally Cross
• Wild Arms

All these video games are being sold at $5.99 which is quite reasonable for a high-resolution title.

To note, most of the titles mentioned above has been ported to PSP and PS3 in which they are downloadable in Sony’s PlayStation Network (PSN).

People all over the tech industry is looking forward to the Google Samsung event where it is expected that the Samsung Galaxy Nexus to make it’s first appearance.

Due to that, there have been a lot of leaks surrounding the Ice Cream Sandwich powered Android device.

Here’s what has been said according to one blog:

• Dimensions: 5.4in x 2.7in x .35in (which is insanely thin, however the blog also mentions that its .45 inches at its thickest part)
• Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich
• 1.2GHz dual-core TI OMAP 4460 processor
• 4.65-inch 720×1280 AMOLED HD display (which may just be the Italian translation for Super AMOLED Plus)
• 5-megapixel CMOS rear camera with LED flash, capable of video capture in 1080p
• 1.3-megapixel CMOS front-facing camera
• NFC!!
• 1GB of RAM, 16/32 GB of on-board storage

Surprisingly, we only see a weak camera on-board. This is very disappointing considering how iPhone 4S amaze a bunch people with their impressive snaps.

So, is there is still hope for Samsung to implement 12-megapixel camera much to what has been showcased on Nokia’s N8?

Of course, we still need to wait until the official event that will start soon.

Despite clocking at just around 800 MHz, the newest addition to iPhone series is giving a rough time to most of the high-end Android smartphone devices that sporting around 1.2 to 1.5 GHz in the market, particularly the big-hit Samsung Galaxy S II.

A smaller clock not only results in higher yields from the factory, but possibly a lower operating voltage as well.

Lowering a CPU’s core voltage, means a greater-than-linear decrease in consuming the power, turning out the marginal loss in clock speed a good pick.

At a lower operating frequency than its Android competitors, Apple does have to exploit its advantages in software to avoid any tangible performance penalties.

Apple has always done this very well in the past, so most of the Apple fans out there don’t expect the loss of frequency to be a big deal to the few who do cross-shop iOS and Android.

In any case we expect that Android’s upcoming reiteration, Ice Cream Sandwich (4.0) to improve the scores on most of the devices.