If you happen to have Verizon for your wireless provider of choice and a Motorola Droid Razr Maxx for your smartphone, today might just be your lucky day. A leaked upgrade schedule from an internal Verizon system gave us hope that despite the fact that the Motorola Droid Razr Maxx is still in the Evaluation and Planning stage of its ICS development, the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update for the handset can actually (fingers crossed) be expected to arrive sooner than expected.
Buy the Motorola Droid Razr Maxx starting at $199.
Looking back, a couple of weeks ago, we got an ICS false alarm for that originated from retail giant Best Buy who, through an internal leaked document, intimated that Ice Cream Sandwich is scheduled to hit the Motorola Droid Razr Maxx last April 4. We all know at this point in time that the rumor did not turn into anything other than being a rumor. However, this leaked upgrade schedule from Verizon itself clearly states that the last day of testing for the ICS update for the Motorola Droid Razr Maxx is scheduled on May 17, 2012. And the best part? The expected time frame that Verizon will finally roll the ICS update for the Motorola Droid Razr Maxx out is on May 21, 2012 if all goes according to plan.
However, we still advise you to take everything about this supposed ICS update for the Motorola Droid Razr Maxx with a grain of salt. While the dates on the leaked internal leaked screenshot couldn’t be more specific, there is still that probability that Ice Cream Sandwich will not be pushed to the handset on the said date because there might be problems that may come up during the testing phase and major bugs are identified. However, the leaked internal images are very specific that once the wireless provider commences the rollout of ICS for the Motorola Droid Razr Maxx, it plans to finish the rollout to all of the handsets within 14 days. And with this, we cross our fingers with you that everything goes well so users of the handset can finally get their Motorola Droid Razr Maxx devices a tasty treat of Ice Cream Sandwich. And while waiting for the rollout to happen, let us go through the specs sheet of the handset to get an idea of its components and capabilities.
The claim to fame of the Motorola Droid Razr Maxx is its 3300 mAh power pack that brings an incredible battery life to the handset. IT also packs a serious punch under the hood with its Texas Instruments OMAP4430 chipset that comes along with a dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor clocked at 1.2 GHz and a full gigabyte of RAM. Its internal storage comes up to 16GB but the handset has a preinstalled 16GB microSD card for memory expansion purposes while its 4.3-inch display with a 960 x 540 resolution is of the SuperAMOLED Advanced variety. Its shooting department is equally capable with the handset outfitted with an 8MP camera at its back panel and a 1.3MP video chat and self-portrait camera out front. Buy the Motorola Droid Razr Maxx starting at $199.
April 28, 2012 at 9:15 am
Just got sent the upgrade to my Razr Maxx
April 28, 2012 at 2:19 pm
I got my RAZR ICS update. Phew!
April 28, 2012 at 8:18 pm
Markd, thought the same thing at first, but it was just a system update from Verizon, not the Android OS upgrade.
April 29, 2012 at 9:19 am
Yeah, it was a Verizon update, 3.76.2or something. i’m getting annoyed. no way we are gonna get this real update unless we buy a phone that comes with the ics. and by then, 5.0 will be”coming out”the next week. makes me sick.
April 29, 2012 at 3:42 pm
What the hell is the big deal with teasing the masses with ICS? Just roll it out. After all, it’s already on the Nexus right? So, why can’t Moto customers have it as well? There is always the “have” and “have-nots” Welcome all…
April 30, 2012 at 3:34 am
What feature are you guys looking for from ICS that you don’t already have?
April 30, 2012 at 10:49 am
Hear, hear, ‘Jink’. The marketing-hype and folderol being expended over the coming of ICS, as though it were The Holy Grail, is pathetic. Several months hence it’ll be all ‘Jelly Bean’ all-the-time until some other trick is rolled-out.
April 30, 2012 at 6:42 pm
There are host of new features in ICS, that will make the Razr and even better phone. I love the phone, but was told by the salesman Feb 7th when I bought it that I’d get ICS later in February. ICS has a number of features to make the phone do things faster, smoother and longer. It has been said that it will increase battery life, and improve the functioning of the radios to give even better reception, improve connections, be able to take screen shots, and quite a list of other items. It was alluded to way back in November when the Razr came out that it would be available to just after the 1st of the year. I’m excited for it, so much that I just ordered a Android 4.0 touchscreen tablet. Its partly about getting what we paid for, we were promised the features and they need to deliver, That was part of the reason for buying it was that, I was on the wall between the Nexus with 4.o or the Maxx with the larger battery and the battery with knowing I’d soon get the 4.0 won out. It’s still an awesome phone, which will soon be even better.
May 3, 2012 at 7:55 pm
I really liked my nexus with ics it just is not a stable phone I went tru 4 galaxy nexus prime phones in 3 months, finally got tired of its issues and got the droid maxx even with gingerbread it is a better phone , I know it will be great once it gets the ics upgrade for now I’ll patiently wait
May 22, 2012 at 11:57 am
Not sure what the hold up is but when i bough this phone i was told that the ics was going to be out in a week or 2 now its been months WITH NOTHING BEING DONE if i knew then what i know now they could have keep this phone never again will i bye a Motorola phone