‘Early access preview’ of Ice Cream Sandwich with Sense 4.0 announced by HTC

HTC is up to something pretty great. The have just announced that an “early access preview” for their Ice Cream Sandwich update for the Sensation and Sensation XE. This is similar approach that Motorola does when they drop their “soak tests”. Giving a certain number of users an update to provide feedback and get used to the new elements and UI. HTC will be dropping this in the next few days, but only in Europe for the moment. We fully expect the US to see similar treatment in time.

“HTC is doing something new and pretty cool in the coming days: we’ll be releasing an “early access preview” of our ICS upgrade for the Sensation and Sensation XE. This will be limited in scope (just a few hundred users and only in Europe) because we’re still scaling up back-end resources for general availability worldwide, and our hope is people will play with it and enjoy getting used to the ICS experience with Sense. We’ll be doing similar previews for other devices in the future, too.”

They also mention that they fully plan to take this approach for other HTC devices in the future. It will be great to see how these beta builds fair in user hands and how the testing can change things before an actual roll out. What is even more exciting though is the possibilities this leaves for our developers. Once these test updates hit devices they will be able to get to work on something new to work with.

No matter how a person looks at this, at least we know Ice Cream Sandwich is being worked on and nearly ready for testing. Are you guys getting antsy yet?

Source: AndroidCommunity