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Wednesday morning in Hong Kong, Google launched the latest iteration of the Android OS, Ice Cream Sandwich, alongside the Samsung announcement of the Galaxy Nexus. While Samsung certainly wowed the audience with a truly impressive phone, the real star of the show was Android 4.0.  Ice Cream Sandwich makes Android simple and beautiful, and takes the smartphone to beyond smart.

Yesterday we learned a couple of new details about Google’s latest mobile operating system, Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. First off, Android chief Andy Rubin revealed that it would start rolling out to other Android 2.3 devices a few weeks after that Samsung Galaxy Nexus launch. Untill now, we learned that the Nexus S would be the first Android Phones get update to Android 4.0, follow by Motorola Droid Razr and Samsung Galaxy S2.

How about, Sony Ericsson Android Phones?. Today Sony Erricsson said that Sony Ericsson is apparently ready to take a bite out of Google’s Ice Cream Sandwich updates for Xperia Devices and here is what Sony Ericsson had to say in regards to Ice Cream Sandwich,

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Sony Ericsson’s latest home launcher that will arrive in the newest Xperia range with the 2.3.4 update for the 2011 range Xperia handsets has been leaked. This latest home launcher come with some new features and improvement, that are,

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Sony Ericsson today announced that it has developed a secure mechanism for developers to unlock the boot loader of select Xperia devices.

“It will be possible to unlock the boot loader for certain releases of our 2011 Xperia phones, such as Xperia arc, Xperia neo, Xperia pro and Xperia PLAY”.

According to the blog post, It will be possible to unlock the boot loader for some releases of upcoming Xperia phones series, such as Xperia arc, Xperia neo, Xperia pro and Xperia PLAY. Not all versions of these Xperia devices will be so open to development. If the phone comes locked to a carrier you won’t have the same access, and Sony Ericsson says there are other factors that may prevent an unlockable bootloader depending on market and phone configuration.

This will be limited to only sim-unlocked phones, so carrier-partnered versions are out of luck here.  Anyway It isn’t the perfect situation because Sony Ericsson states that once you unlock the boot loader you may void the warranty of the device . Sony Ericsson explain that they are strongly recommend that standard users NOT unlock the boot loader, as it is not needed.

Source: http://blogs.sonyericsson.com