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.
More Ice Cream Sandwich stories
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 18, 2012
Here's a little tip you may not have known about -- while working inside Google's applications in Ice Cream Sandwich, you can long press any icon and its name will appear. This can be ...
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by Chris Parsons
Jan 18, 2012
Earlier we all got a preview of CyanogenMod 9 running on the HP TouchPad and now, if you're a TouchPad owner looking to get in on the action -- you can do so. CyanogenMod 9 for the HP TouchPad h...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 18, 2012
A treat for the night owls from Motorola -- the Ice Cream Sandwich update for the Wifi only Motorola Xoom looks to be rolling out right about now. Reports say it's Android 4.0.3, and every...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 17, 2012
The good people at Inside Secure have ported over their Open NFC stack to Ice Cream Sandwich, giving OEM's one less hurdle to jump when getting devices ready for upgrading. The new 4.3.3 r...
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by Richard Devine
Jan 17, 2012
News is coming out of the UK today from retailer Clove Technology, says that we're going to have to carry on waiting for the official Samsung Galaxy Nexus accessories as the release date has sli...
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by Jared DiPane
Jan 15, 2012
Looking for a sweet taste of Ice Cream Sandwich on your LTE model Motorola Xoom tablet? If you got some time to read, some patience and the hardware you will definitely want to check this out. Andro...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 15, 2012
Notion Ink has released the alpha build of Ice Cream Sandwich for the Adam. Because this is an alpha build and nowhere near a finished product, there's a good number of bugs and annoyances...
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by Richard Devine
Jan 15, 2012
We've had the first retailers bring it up, we've had the first real promotional shots, and now we have the first real, actual shots of the white Samsung Galaxy Nexus.
The folks o...
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by Jared DiPane
Jan 14, 2012
If you have been feeling a bit left out with your HTC Rezound and have been anxiously awaiting your invitation to the Ice Cream Sandwich party the time has come. Over at Rootzwiki they seem to have ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 14, 2012
I've been desperately trying to convert from Foursquare to Path for bothering most of my social networks at once, but a pretty critical bug was keeping that from happening. But Path's just r...
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by Chris Parsons
Jan 13, 2012
Over the next little while we're slowly going to see Android 4.0 ICS rolled out to a number of devices and for some -- that may cause some havoc when it comes to app compatibility. One of the mo...
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by Chris Parsons
Jan 12, 2012
*UPDATED* - ICS it is -- hit the break.
We've known for a while now Motorola has been prepping a 'project' not only for the WiFi Motorola Xoom but the 4G LTE equipped Motorola Xoom as w...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 12, 2012
Google has let loose a new section of their Android developer portal -- Android Design. It's a site full of tools and suggestions to help application developers build apps that look and fe...
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by Jared DiPane
Jan 12, 2012
Mmmm. Can you taste that (almost) fresh new version of Ice Cream Sandwich? It appears as though Android 4.0.2 is rolling out to the GSM versions of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus again via an OTA u...
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by Anndrew Vacca
Jan 11, 2012
Ice Cream Sandwich isn't just for the biggest players on the field, as Coby showed me today at CES with its upcoming line of affordable tablets. There are nine models total, and none are properl...
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by Anndrew Vacca
Jan 11, 2012
Lurking inside the Nvidia booth here at CES are some high-profile devices not getting much fanfare, one such being the Acer Iconia Tab A510. Its purpose at the booth is to show off just how powerful...
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by Alex Dobie
Jan 11, 2012
An early Sprint LTE landing page listed the Sprint Galaxy Nexus as having 16GB of internal storage, compared to the 32GB offered by the Verizion version. Sprint got in touch with us today, however, ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 11, 2012
Huawei has announced that their 7-inch MediaPad will be one of the first Android tablets to ship with Ice Cream Sandwich pre-installed, and the availability of the new MediaPad Color series in shado...
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by Richard Devine
Jan 10, 2012
In the middle of all the CES excitement, it's sometimes hard to forget about the regular Android world for a while. Fortunately the good folks over at XDA Developers never forget, and the latest...
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by Alex Dobie
Jan 09, 2012
Update - The update is now fully rolling out, you can discuss it in the Android Central Forums.
We're live at NVIDIA's CES 2012 press conference, where it's just been announced ...
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