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OK, so saying that this particular build of Ice Cream Sandwich running on a Nokia N9 is better than the N9 with MeeGo is a bit of a stretch. That’s only because there is still a lot of work to be done before one could deem Alexey Roslyakov’s Android 4.0 port user friendly. The N9 is just the sort of phone that is popular for its fine specs and good looks but often leaves folks wondering if its accompanying OS realizes the device’s full potential. With a bit of polish it looks like we could have an answer.
The N9′s hardware drivers have been the biggest hurdle in getting Google’s latest update to their mobile platform to play nice, but developers have had success with the N9 in the past, bringing various Android 2.x version to the handset. Notice the extraneous icons on the phone’s lockscreen (or maybe the lockscreen controls on the phone’s homescreen). Once things get sorted out the goal is to create a dual-boot system that will allow users to easily switch between the stock MeeGo experience and ICS. We’d take it with Android only.
