Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Android 2.x (Ice Cream) to be Honeycomb for smartphones

During his keynote address, Google’s outgoing CEO Eric Schmidt clarified speculation that’s been buzzing around MWC about the next Android OS 2.4 (“which will start with an I”). Schmidt said that while Google is going to apply some of the lessons and features learned in writing Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) for tablets and use them in upcoming smartphones. The new version will be a hybrid, coupling the existing Gingerbread update with Honeycomb to create one single OS.


Scmidt also went on to say that current Android updates are on a six month cycle and while it may be that Gingerbread was released last December with the Google Nexus S, it hasn’t made it to other phones. Keeping with the six month cycle, Vs. 2.3 may get leapfrogged and a new update released in April instead.
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