The Nexus One Will Not Be Getting a Tasty Ice Cream Sandwich

Posted 10/26/2011 at 2:30pm | by Ryan Whitwam

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The venerable Nexus One was launched in early 2010 and set the stage for a new breed of faster Android devices. Sales were lackluster, but a certain contingent of Android lovers embraced the Nexus One, and many still use it today. Google, however, is less smitten with this phone of yesteryear. The Big G announced today that the Nexus One will not be getting an official update to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.

The Nexus One launched with Android 2.1, and was later updated to Android 2.2. Early this year it was bumped up again to Android 2.3 Gingerbread. Google is saying that the device is just too old to properly run ICS, but did not give any specifics. The processor is rated at 1GHz, and hold up fairly well, though the GPU is sluggish by today’s standards. Probably the sticking point is the small amount of internal ROM, which likely isn’t enough to fit ICS.

Users of this device that have not already, will probably want to consider rooting and unlocking the bootloader. This will allow the flashing of the plethora of optimized Android 4.0 ROMs that are bound to appear after the code is open sourced. Any Nexus One owners out there that want to vent?