Things just got a little more interesting if you're a Nexus S owner. Apparently Google employees who are Nexus S owners are in the midst of the “dogfooding” process of testing Android 4.0 on their devices. Yes, you read that right– Google employees are testing an official (albeit early) build of that sweet, sweet new treat. Dogfooding is “a practice of having company employees use products before releasing them to the public (“eat your own dog food” in this sense apparently originated in Microsoft back in 1988), thus weeding out bugs while the products are still revolving in a relatively contained environment”. If you don't believe us, we have a nice little snippet from Google employee Adel Saoud's Google+ page:
“Just got Ice-cream Sandwich update on my Nexus S & it's looking great “
and
“Yeah an OTA, but it's an early one for Google employees so we test it further so it's even more awesome when you guys get it. So sadly I can't comment on it more at this time…”
This is widely unexpected, but welcome news for Nexus S owners! Now that we know the official ICS update is out there and being worked on, we can expect the fine folks in Mountain View to work out any kinks and release the official update in the next few weeks at the earliest.
[via Android Police]
