The Ice Cream Sandwich version of Android was officially announced May 10 at the Google IO developer conference. It's not expected to be released until the fourth quarter of 2011, and Google didn't offer up too many details, though it did say it'll bring features of Android 3.0/3.1 Honeycomb to smartphones. That confirms what former CEO Eric Schmidt said at Mobile World Congress in February 2011.
That's not to say you'll be getting the Honeycomb experience on a phone -- Android 3.0 was designed for tablets with their larger screens. But we should see some elements, such as the Action Bar and System Bar. Ice Cream Sandwich will unify the OS version across devices, and will allow for better application development on smartphones, tablets, and Google TV.
Nobody know much more about Ice Cream Sandwich at this point, but you can follow the news as it happens below.
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 14, 2012
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by Chris Parsons
Mar 13, 2012
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by Alex Dobie
Mar 13, 2012
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by Joshua Munoz
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by Alex Dobie
Mar 13, 2012
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Mar 12, 2012
It's official -- The Samsung Galaxy S II is getting the Ice Cream Sandwich starting today in parts of Europe and Korea. Folks in Poland, Hungary, Sweden, and Korea should soon see the OTA u...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Mar 12, 2012
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by Alex Dobie
Mar 12, 2012
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by PvilleComp
Mar 11, 2012
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by Alex Dobie
Mar 09, 2012
Yesterday Samsung's Filipino site published statement announcing that the Galaxy S II would be receiving the latest version of Android, Ice Cream Sandwich, starting tomorrow, Mar. 10. Since then...
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by Alex Dobie
Mar 08, 2012
Update: And ... it looks like the announcement has been taken down. Let's just keep our fingers crossed.
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by Jared DiPane
Mar 08, 2012
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 08, 2012
Update: Forum reports now indicate that the original HTC Sensation is also getting the ICS update, though for the moment it seems to be limited to Germany and Nordic countries.
Have a German H...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 07, 2012
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by Alex Dobie
Mar 06, 2012
Oh, Internet. How you love to make something out of nothing. A new trailer for Rovio's Angry Birds Space appeared today, indicating that the game would launch first on the Samsung Galaxy Note...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 06, 2012
No real surprises here -- the XYBOARDS already had been announced, same for the Xoom and the Rezound. It's good to see the ThunderBolt and Droid Incredible 2 make it.
Here's the ful...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Mar 06, 2012
The HTC Vivid should be seeing Ice Cream Sandwich shortly, and if you're the brave type there's a leak out in the wild you can flash today. When HTC and AT&T announced the HTC One X was ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Mar 05, 2012
Anyone doing development for Android (or any software platform) knows that good tools are the most important part of the whole process. We've seen that the Android team has been hard at work to ...
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by Alex Dobie
Mar 04, 2012
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by Chris Parsons
Mar 01, 2012
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