Ice Cream Sandwich Coming to Some LG Phones in Mid-2012

Android 4–also known as Ice Crean Sandwich–will be coming to a number of LG smartphones sometime in the middle of next year, according to a post on the company’s Facebook page. According to LG, the company will begin introducing updates to Ice Cream Sandwich in the second and third quarters of 2012 (that’s April-September) to select smartphones, with a “global roll out” following sometime thereafter.

According to the posting, the following LG phones will get Ice Cream Sandwich during the second quarter (April-June) of 2012:

• Optimus LTE
• Prada by LG 3.0
• Optimus 2X
• Optimus Sol
• myTouch Q
• Eclipse

LG will update five more phones in the third quarter (July-September) to Google’s latest tasty mobile OS treat:

• Optimus 3D
• Optimus Black
• Optimus Big
• Optimus Q2
• Optimus EX

One thing to note here: Armando Rodriguez, PCWorld’s resident Android expert, points out that the phones LG lists are all European versions of the phones, not US versions. Some LG phones go by different names in the US, though (as Cnet notes, the Optimus LTE goes by the AT&T Nitro HD in the US, for instance), so it may be possible that US versions of these phones will get the update too.

Still, if you’re in the US, you may want to double-check with your carrier to see whether or not your LG phone will be getting Ice Crean Sandwich.

If you don’t want to wait for LG to release an update and you’re not afraid to hack your phone, keep an eye out for the upcoming CyanogenMod 9, a custom variant of Android (also known as a “ROM”) for rooted Android phones. CyanogenMod 9 will be based on Ice Cream Sandwich, and it should be out sometime in January. The catch: We don’t yet know for sure what hardware CyanogenMod 9 will support–the current release supports only two LG models as of this writing. Check the CyanogenMod blog for ongoing updates on future releases.

[LG on Facebook via CNET]