ARCHOS has announced that they are rolling out the Android Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0.4 update for the G9 series of tablets, ARCHOS 80 G9 and 101 G9 that was announced last June. The ICS update would offer faster web browsing, easy multitasking, rich notifications, customizable home screens, resizable widgets, and enhanced social media integration. In addition, Ice Cream Sandwich also comes with improved text input and spell checking, a dynamic voice input engine, enhanced imaging capabilities and a redesigned Gallery app with photo editor.
Additionally the ARCHOS tablets would also get new features including
- MediaCenter Video: support for MKV3D on TV with automatic switch to best 3D mode
- MediaCenter Video: allow to disable system notifications in video player
- MediaCenter Video: collection of VOB files from DVD are now gathered into a single movie item
- MediaCenter Music: integrate Music control panel in Lock Screen
- MediaCenter info dialog: allow to edit the name used for performing the Movie and TVShow online search
- File Manager: display a notification when file copy continues in background, improved drag and drop support
- File Manager: new option to prevent indexing of some storage/sdcard folders by multimedia library
- Applications: more robust video conferencing support (Google talk, Skype etc.)
- USB file transfer: a samba server is now activated on the tablet when using USB network tethering for easier file transfer on non Windows based hosts
- Archos widgets: new USB network tether widget
- External Keyboard: french layout has been expanded to handle AtlGr keys for special symbols
- Accessories: Xbox gamepad support
This update would be available over-the-air (OTA) starting today for the G9 owners worldwide. There will be a notification “A” in the lower right hand corner of your device. You can click it to download the update, and once the download is complete select ‘Yes’ to install.