Lack of Ice cream Sandwich at CES a major disappointment?

 

 So, as I tool around CES getting my hands all over the latest and greatest Android's to launch this year, one common theme seems to ring true. Can you guess what that might be? Yeah, I figured you could. Ice Cream Sandwich is almost non-existent here. Now I know I can walk over to the Sprint booth and tool around on the Galaxy Nexus, but I wanted to see some other, higher powered Android's rocking the new OS. Whatever happened to that illusive Android alliance? How can I get excited for tomorrows Android phones that are all launching with yesterday's OS? CES is the start of the new year and I think myself, as well as many others were expecting to see a new trend set. That trend being that we would at least see some (majority?) of the newest Google powered Android phones sporting the latest OS. Not so. This issue of fragmentation has been the cornerstone of many late night forum battles and blogger posts, myself included, but it is something that needs to be addressed--properly--and NOW. Hopefully Google has something up their sleeve, seeing how that Android Alliance has done nothing. One can dream, right? Hit the comment section and let me know if you feel the same. 

Nokia makes the Lumia 900 an AT&T exclusive

Today, Nokia CEO Stephen Elop, along with his cohorts Ballmer (Microsoft) and De La Vega (AT&T) made a bit of history today, as they seeded what is to most likely be just the start of an invasion of sorts from the Finnish phone maker. What they planted was the gorgeous Nokia Lumia 900, with it's ClearBlack display at a whopping 4.3-inches, along with being the first Nokia Windows Phone to support 4G LTE--an exclusive to AT&T, for now at least. There will be two color options for AT&T customers to choose from, including a standard black and a not so standard Cyan (blue), as seen in the picture. I have liked the design on this phone from day one, when we first saw the body style pop up with the Lumia 800. It differed from the norm of everyday plasticky Androids, or the iPhone clones that seem to appear every couple days or so. Will this device be the push that Nokia and Windows needs to succeed here in the US? Does AT&T hold some magical power as being the first to get their hands on it? As they did with the iPhone in 2007. No one knows. But I will say one thing, apart from the iPhone, nothing moves more fluid, or as fast as WP7. Take a peek for yourself in the video provided and you tell me if you feel this could be the start of something new.