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Samsung has finally announced the arrival of Ice Cream Sandwich for the Galaxy S2.  The update will be live for many of you, while others including myself may still need to wait a little bit longer for our carriers to sort themselves out. From what we've seen on Sammy's sites, the Galaxy S2 update should be quite simple. Samsung Kies will update your phone just as it has done for every other firmware update.  Samsung does recommend that if you have a pattern lock on your phone, you turn it off before updating, and the whole process shouldn't take more than half an hour. This does of course depend slightly on the computer you're using. Oh, you also need to make sure you have at least 60 MB of free space on your phone!

Have you been able to update? 

UPDATE: According to Pocket-Lint ICS will be available in the UK from the week commencing 19th of March.... back to Madge and the clocks below it is then.
UPDATE: Here is the press release Samsung sent Engadget.
UPDATE: Some readers in Finland and Denmark have been able to upgrade over the air, without the use of Kies. (Menu > Settings > About phone > Software update > Update)

Time goes by so slowly for those of us waiting on the Galaxy S2 Ice Cream Sandwich update.  However, approximately 1 hour ago Samsung advised it's followers on Twitter to ensure their Kies software is up to date. Why? Because the ICS update for the Galaxy S2 will be announced soon via Twitter! Finally, word from the horse's mouth. And this time it is not from a regional Samsung office but from HQ. The message was even in Korean. If that doesn't make you a believer I don't know what will.  We will be hanging on to every stroke of Samsung's keyboard.

Source: Samsung

Samsung has recently been dropping the ball and it's getting so frustrating.  There is so much going back and forth with news about the Ice Cream Sandwich upgrade and the Galaxy SIII release.  Just give us something concrete, and when you do, make sure it's right!  In their latest gaff, a Samsung rep announced that the Ice Cream Sandwich roll-out for the Galaxy S2 would be taking place on the 10th of March for the international version of the phone. How Exciting - until a further tweet from Samsung negated the previous comment! Now the company line is that the Cream Sandwich upgrade notice for the Galaxy S2 was wrong and we will tweet about it once the upgrade schedule has been confirmed. So lame.  I understand there must be a lot involved in trying to update 20 million handsets and get it right. It's the conflicting messages that are doing my head in. I'm usually one to buy into well orchestrated teasers, but this is one poorly organised non-event.

Update: CLICK HERE for some info about the ICS update from Samsung. It's supposed to answer some of your FAQs. Don't expect any dates though.