Samsung earlier this week outlined its Android 4.0 update plans. Noticeably absent were the original Galaxy S smartphone and Tab tablet. The company has now confirmed that neither device will be upgraded to Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich). It explains that neither device has enough memory to support the ugpraded OS, its TouchWiz interface and other “experience-enhancing” software.
The announcement is bound to displease a few (especially with sales over 10 million units), especially as the Galaxy S smartphone uses the same processor as the Galaxy Nexus S which Samung manufactured for Google and comes with the same 1GHz Hummingbird processor. Samsung explains that the Nexus S only has to support a plain vanilla Android version where as the Galaxy S has a number of add-ons such as the aforementioned TouchWiz, carrier services, video calling software and mobile TV in some markets.
Should there be suficient customer pressure, I wonder if Samsung will do as HTC did earlier this year with the HTC Desire Android 2.3 update.