In a major "Surprise!" moment, Huawei has officially released what
looks to be a demo build of Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0) for the
Honor (model number U8860). Details are incredibly light at the moment,
since all we're really going on here is a product support page that's
been Google Translated from Chinese to English and contains next to no
information:
According
to the poster at XDA, the posted update is actually just a "demo"
(beta?) and not the final version. A Huawai Senior VP (Yu Chengdong) has
been sharing pictures and some details via Chinese social media service Weibo
(auto-translate is including such gems as, "I use black Honor, equipped
with the latest 4.0 version of the operating system Andrews. To sleep,
disturbing for people.")
Update:
Our tipster downloaded the zip; there's a PDF inside with instructions
on how to install the ICS update, as well as how to roll back to
Gingerbread. It also reiterates that this is a demo ICS build and was
released so Honor users can get a feel for the changes and new features
in ICS.
Pretty cool to see a company known for budget
products being the first out the gate with a public ICS update, even if
it is beta. Must be part of their plan to wend their way into the
upper-end of the market.
[Source: Huawai via XDA-Developers. Thanks for the tip, Yuankai!]
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