Today, I’ve got great news to all the samsung galaxy s2 owners around the globe. ICS (Ice Cream Sandwitch) update for Galaxy S2 is coming during first quarter of 2012 
.. Android forums and this tweet from @samsungUK seem to confirm the rumors.
Galaxy S2 Running ICS 4.0
Some of the most awaited features of ICS Android 4.0 IceCreamSandwitch are listed below:
- Virtual buttons in the user experience free up display space
- Create folders by dragging apps on top of each other
- A new tab for thumbing through your widgets
- Calendar app now supports pinch-to-zoom
- Gmail gets offline search (nice), a two-line preview, and gesture support for swiping between conversations
- The revamped Gmail user interface has an action bar for composing a message, searching, and accessing labels
- Take screenshots by holding power and volume down buttons (finally!)
- “Request desktop site” in the Chrome browser opens the full version of a Web site and syncs with your bookmarks
- Save Web pages offline and use up to 16 tabs in the browser
- More keyboard error correction and an inline spell check
- Access apps directly from the lock screen
- A recent applications icon
- “Roboto” is a new typeface
- Delete individual notifications by dragging them off the notifications menu
- Improved voice integration and copy and paste
- Face Unlock is a facial recognition service that use your face to unlock the phone
- New Data Usage options in the Settings menu will notify users when they near a data use limit and disable the feature when the limit is reached
- You can kill off apps that are using data in the background
- Open the camera quickly from the home screen
- Camera has no shutter lag, continuous focus, zoom while recording, panorama photos, time lapse settings, and 1080p recording
- Face detection in the camera
- Integrated photo editor including focus and exposure and “hipster filters” (we don’t want to know)
- New gallery layout, organized by location and person
- People app brings together high-res photos, social media information, and status updates
- Phone app lets you swipe between favorite friends with integrated visual voice mail
- New photo gallery layout for organizing by location and person
- Speed up and slow down voice mails
- Quick message sends canned response text message when you decline a call
- Android Beam, an NFC feature for exchanging information between two phones by tapping them
Lets keep our fingers crossed for this fantastic ICS update Share the joy with your friends!!
More updates on this soon – Stay tuned!!
ICS made my battery life go low.
ICS is not even final, how can you state it kills your battery? Wait for the final, then make your point.
Agree with you Einstein.. I believe we need to wait and watch how the final ICS update is going to be like..