Samsung will beat the hackers to Android 4.0
If you’re not familiar with CyanogenMod, you should be: the firmware has been responsible for some of the best unofficial Android alterations available. But now the hackers are stumped: The CM9 port of Android 4.0 to older devices will probably come after the manufacturers’ own effort.
The word comes from the CyanogenMod blog, in an official posting to explain the progress of the CM9 Android Ice Cream Sandwich port for Gingerbread devices. It’s not going smoothly: “Android 4.0 is such a major change from 2.3, we started with a fresh codebase from Google,” it reads. “This is a somewhat time-consuming process.”
The blog concedes that “as much as we’d like to stay ahead of the manufacturers, it may be a tie this time.” A tie? We already know that Samsung is working on porting Android 4.0 to the Galaxy S2, but will it actually beat the struggling hackers to it?
