Asus Twitter: Transformer ICS Update Starts Rolling Out Tomorrow in the U.S.

by: Kellex | posted 02.23.12 | News

According to the “official” Asus Twitter account, Ice Cream Sandwich should arrive on your Transformer starting tomorrow. Only hours after the update was announced for Taiwan with a “soon after” timeline for the rest of the world, this is fantastic news.

Via: Twitter

Cheers @bstag!

Mizeppy

I just downloaded the update on my Transformer. So far I am seeing MUCH faster performance. I think it is going to be a huge improvement.
Noah424

Just upgraded to ICS on my TF101
http://profiles.google.com/corgimas Rob Banks

Got ICS on my transformer this morning……..going to have to take some time to play!!!!! seems a little laggy right now though….
Jetidwell2

Upgraded to 4.0.3 on my TF101 at 5:31am in Florida. Everything went smooth and I’m loving the performance boost. Things just seem much smoother and speedier compared to Honeycomb. Can’t wait until my Bionic shares the same OS.
Matthew Adams

ICS is here as of 4:15 am CST
William_Morris

WOOHOO!
daniel_ohh

The ICS dlpkgfile has been extracted and is up over on XDA… Devers, start your engines!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1513555
gorkon

COnfirmed

https://www.facebook.com/asus.n.america
Iceywyte2781

bout time there Asus u get ics on the og transformer, well done enjoy og, transformer user’s hope u, have much fun with it as much as I have
Agnog

Hallelujah!

As a TF101 owner I can now stop complaining everytime I see someone else getting ICS
- Agnog
  
  Do we have an over/under on how many times I hit ‘Check for Update’ tomorrow?
Raven

I am waiting to here some stories of how the upgrade goes on rooted Transformers using OTA Root Keeper. I would honestly much rather have rooted 3.2 HC than non-rooted 4.0 ICS.
- Raven
  
  And by “here” I meant see them here
http://www.facebook.com/aaron.j.stein Aaron Stein

i’m on the transformer prime. i thought i might miss my ipad, but right now it’s traveling in europe with my daughter…
wpscompute

My Transformer is looking for a new chrome browser. That, and any performance increase will be enough for me. So cool to have my GNex & Transformer on ICS!
- MKader17
  
  If ICS improves the Transformer like it improved my Prime, you will be nothing short of astonished. Of course, I did here that HC was smooth on the transformer.
http://twitter.com/masroorhussain Masroor Hussain

should I pick this or prime or xoom ?
- lamenting
  
  Prime > original Transformer > Xoom
  - EC8CH
    
    I checked your math… you’re correct.
9host99

still hoping an announcement is coming soon about the Galaxy 10.1 upgrade to ICS…
Michael Forte

What’s with all the Transformer news? The site should be renamed Transformer Life!
- Mack
  
  That joke got old after the first time it was used…
hldc1

This is the reason why I’m glad I own an Asus tablet, and when I upgrade my tablet, I’ll be buying another Asus tablet.
viewthis74

i just dig that fact that my phone and tablet have essentially the same OS.
- Inbred Republican
  
  Yup, ICS on my Nexus and my 4G Xoom.
  - Sprint Rep
    
    how’d you get ics on ur 4G xoom? by rooting? cuz i have the same thing but thought we were still in motorolas “evaluation and planning” stage.
Sven Enterlein

I am very excited! Although ICS is very similar to HC I hope to gain some neat features like swiping to remove recent apps from the list, freezing apps etc. Might not be as big a jump as for phone users but hopefully there have been some significant changes “under the hood”. Go ASUS!
Bionicman

this is awesome news! Honeycomb is nice but ICS improves on it a lot. You would know the difference if you’ve used ICS before.
EC8CH

What do tablets gain going from Honeycomb to ICS?

I can see a pretty big jump for phones coming from GB, but how big of a deal is this for tablets?
- palomosan
  
  Oh! it’s a big deal, trust me, HC is really sluggish, this will make fast and steady.
  - EC8CH
    
    So people are looking forward to performance improvements more so than any added functionality?
    - bakdroid
      
      At least from the Xoom’s standpoint, yes. Really their doesn’t seem to be too many new features between the two, one of the biggies is the browser performance is light years ahead of HC.
    - MKader17
      
      I think the menu’s are much better designed as well.
- Josh Groff
  
  Idk, might have better app support?
- http://www.droid-life.com Tim-o-tato
  
  From what I’ve noticed, my XOOM runs so much smoother now. The added little things here and there are just fantastic. +1 for ICS on tablets.
- MKader17
  
  The difference in my Prime between HC and ICS was pretty big. It worked a lot smoother and I think that the menus are well designed.
AlexKCMO

About time!
Alias

*yay*
http://twitter.com/litobirdy litobirdy

how much are these going for and is it any better than hp touch running cm9?
- AlexKCMO
  
  CM9 hasn’t announced official device support yet. There may be a KANG sometime, but that’s hard to tell.
  - mplacido9
    
    Although you are technically correct about official support, there is an alpha build of CM9 for the touchpad that was released by the CM9 team. I’ve installed it on my touchpad and it is amazing. Hit up rootzwiki if you want more info.
    - AlexKCMO
      
      There are tons of alpha / beta KANGs out there. I mean officially announced on their website.
- Josh Groff
  
  EBay:
  http://www.ebay.com/sch/iPads-Tablets-eReaders-/171485/i.html?_trkparms=65%253A12%257C66%253A2%257C39%253A1%257C72%253A5848&rt=nc&_nkw=tf101&_catref=1&_dmpt=US_Tablets&_sticky=1&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_sop=1&_sc=1 amazon:http://www.amazon.com/Transformer-TF101-A1-10-1-Inch-Tablet-Separately/dp/B004U78J1G
- lamenting
  
  if you get lucky, you can find one for MSRP at Best Buy or Staples.

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