Ice Cream Sandwich

Android Ice Cream Sandwich

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.

Next version of Android is Ice Cream (no sandwich) per Dell roadmap leak

by Chris Parsons

Feb 16, 2011

We've heard plenty of rumors about Ice Cream Sandwich being the next version of Android to hit phones. Even at this years Mobile World Congress Eric Schmidt himself was dropping "I" version...

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"I" version of Android will combine features of Gingerbread and Honeycomb

by Chris Kerrigan

Feb 15, 2011

Live here at Mobile World Congress, we just got word from Eric Schmidt that the next version of Android will combine the feature set of Honeycomb and Gingerbread. Schmidt didn't give any details...

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Ice Cream to follow Honeycomb in the Android dessert lineup, Forbes says

by Sean Brunett

Oct 15, 2010

Ice Cream will be the version of Android following Honeycomb, Forbes reported today. We haven't even gotten to Gingerbread yet, but that doesn't mean we can't look to the future. Google has taken...