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 Jared DiPane
Oct 18, 2011
Sure we all know that the Samsung Galaxy Nexus event is scheduled for 9:30 a.m. local time Wednesday in Hong Kong, but what time is that for you? Confusion always sets in around event times,...
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by Chris Parsons
Oct 18, 2011
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by Phil Nickinson
Oct 18, 2011
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Oct 17, 2011
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by Phil Nickinson
Oct 14, 2011
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by Alex Dobie
Oct 13, 2011
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Oct 13, 2011
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by Phil Nickinson
Oct 09, 2011
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by Phil Nickinson
Oct 08, 2011
Surprise! There's going to be a GSM version of the next Nexus phone, which also will be coming to Verizon. Go figure, eh? Look, there are still a bunch of questions to be answered surrounding th...
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by Chris Parsons
Oct 07, 2011
It's been a chaotic day with things starting off bright and early this morning but -- we're heading into the weekend. A long weekend for some folks with it being Thanksgiving in Canada and C...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Oct 07, 2011
The fellows at Android Police have their hands on a couple new apps from the Ice Cream Sandwich build that's floating around out there (how 'bout a dump for the community, Mr. Anon?), and wi...
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by Phil Nickinson
Oct 07, 2011
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First Nexus Galaxy/Galaxy Nexus/Nexus Prime video, then screen shots and now, courtesy of P3Droid, is what is said to be the boot animation. It's running here o...
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by Chris Parsons
Oct 07, 2011
Just in case the image of the device known as Nexus Prime aka Galaxy Nexus and leaked video weren't enough Ice Cream Sandwich goodness for you, we now have what looks to be a bunch of screenshot...
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by Chris Parsons
Oct 07, 2011
Well, what do we have here? This very well may be the first full on image and video of the device known as the Nexus Prime aka Galaxy Nexus. To go along with the spectacular image above, there was a...
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by Phil Nickinson
Oct 06, 2011
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by Phil Nickinson
Oct 05, 2011
We're getting a little too excited over this little feature, but it's one we're happy to see on another phone. See those three dots we're circled in Samsung's teaser of what'...
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by Chris Parsons
Oct 05, 2011
Something big is coming from Samsung -- as they just let the world know with their latest video for Samsung Mobile Unpacked 2011. The event this year will be held during CTIA in San Diego, CA where ...
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by Alex Dobie
Oct 04, 2011
Who said it was iPhone day? Here we have what looks like the first leaked photo of the next Nexus device, the Samsung 'Nexus Prime', powered by the next version of Android, codename Ice Crea...
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by Phil Nickinson
Sep 30, 2011
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
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A list of the installed apps in the ROM for the Verizon Nexus Prime has been leaked, and they are unsurprisingly bloat free! OK. That's not surpring since it's a Nexus device, but surprising...
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