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The Ice Cream sandwich rollouts are beginning to make the rounds as we get closer to the summer months, and today, Sony has started pushing out Android 4.0 to the Xperia Arc and Xperia Neo. So far, Sony has kept their promise of updates, with the exception of the Xperia PLAY, which had to be canned after extensive testing proved the release to be unstable. Not only has the Xperia Arc and Neo begun receiving Ice Cream Sandwich, but a slew of other devices which were previously updated to 4.0.3, are now being bumped up to Android 4.0.4.

NVIDIA was full of news today. First they announced that the NVIDIA Icera 410 LTE multimode data modem chipset had been tested and validated for operation on the AT&T 4G LTE network. Then, in the company’s annual investor meeting today, Nvidia GM Mike Rayfield, revealed quite a bombshell: 30 quad-core Tegra 3 smartphones by the end of 2012!

That’s a lot of smartphones in general, but 30 quad-core Tegra 3 devices in half a year’s time is astonishing. The insane part about it is, almost half of them will be budget phones! Say what? Tegra 3 budget phones? It’s going to be one hell of a summer!

Wirefly is at it again with another great sale. This time it’s the new HTC One S from T-Mobile getting the discount treatment. Starting tomorrow and running until May 28th, anyone signing up for a new plan, upgrading, or adding a line, will have the chance to have another $25 knocked off of the already great price of $149.99.

Starting midnight PT tonight, Wirefly will begin offering the 32GB Motorola DROID Bionic for the low price of FREE for new accounts. Believe it or not, the DROID Bionic was once one of the most sought after devices and the first dual-core 4G LTE device on Verizon. It didn’t have the best of releases, enduring countless delays and launch issues, but that is all water under the bridge and the Bionic has since been updated numerous times and rid of its many bugs.

We’re continually being fed timeline updates for Android 4.0 updates but what we really want are actual updates — am I right? Unfortunately that’s just not the way it is, so… here’s another target timeline from HTC. HTC plans on having all confirmed devices updated to Android 4.0 by August 2012. That’s not to say itwon’t happen before then, just that they should be completed by then.

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