Samsung Galaxy S Phones Ice Cream Sandwich Update. Well, HTC has already done the same for a series of devices with Gingerbread - just because their stupid overlay story doesn't work with the new system on older hardware (and we're not talking about really old hardware - these are devices that are a year old and usually still under contract with the provider!), there's simply no new operating system. Because this silly overlay story is much more important than current system releases. And not only are the users being screwed - the developers too, because since these devices are not really old, they then have a beautiful jungle of systems to deal with. And users will eventually have to root and install Cyanogenmod or similar if they don't want to live with old (and yes, unfortunately often quite buggy) system releases. The freedoms that Google grants device manufacturers are the biggest problem in the Android world. Bigger than any patent threat that Apple can build. The real enemies of Google's Android vision are neither Microsoft nor Apple, but the device manufacturers and providers. Because they are mentally still in the 90s and put their own control above everything.