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Android has launched its latest OS called Ice Cream Sandwich. This latest OS is expected to run on all types of Android devices, combine the Android operating system to one sweet package followed by easing the issue of OS fragmentation and generating new opportunities for developers.
The version number will be 4.0 and users can expect to see the OS by the end of 2011.
Last Tuesday, at developer conference in San Francisco the search engine giant’s executive said that this would be Google’s “everywhere” OS for mobile phones, tablets and other connected devices.
What would be the exact time for this convergence especially in light of the Honeycomb 3.1 announcements just moments before the Ice Cream Sandwich is a debatable issue. But the Google representatives said that Ice Cream Sandwich will eventually close the 2.X/3.X fork and be the one OS for all Android devices.
While developing for Android, one of the most consistent complaints was the ecosystem’s fragmentation. The operating system in use is crazy quilt. It is expected that the new OS will represent a more consistent direction for Android- one that will once and for all put to rest the more valid criticism of the “fragmentation” camp.
Nokia continues to insist it has no plans to deviate from its two-prong Symbian/MeeGo platform strategy, but the rumors that they’re looking to Android or Windows Phone 7 just keep on coming. Slipped quietly into a DigiTimes report on Android Honeycomb tablets is the suggestion that Nokia has been working with Google – and is among a cadre of smartphone manufacturers getting preferential treatment, no less – on an Android slate that could launch early in the first half of 2011.
The report also mentions Samsung, LG, HTC and Motorola as Google partners on Honeycomb tablets, each of whom we’ve seen various rumors attached to before. Nokia, though, is a new addition to the list; speculation has frequently suggested it is looking to Android for smartphones, but this is the first talk of Google’s OS on a Nokia-made tablet device.
Last we heard of Nokia’s tablet ambitions, the company was facing opposition from carriers over the Nokia Z500 tablet with complaints it was simply too expensive. The company maintains that MeeGo is its platform of choice for larger form-factor devices moving forward, though a commercially released product isn’t expected until sometime in 2011.
The version number will be 4.0 and users can expect to see the OS by the end of 2011.
Last Tuesday, at developer conference in San Francisco the search engine giant’s executive said that this would be Google’s “everywhere” OS for mobile phones, tablets and other connected devices.
What would be the exact time for this convergence especially in light of the Honeycomb 3.1 announcements just moments before the Ice Cream Sandwich is a debatable issue. But the Google representatives said that Ice Cream Sandwich will eventually close the 2.X/3.X fork and be the one OS for all Android devices.
While developing for Android, one of the most consistent complaints was the ecosystem’s fragmentation. The operating system in use is crazy quilt. It is expected that the new OS will represent a more consistent direction for Android- one that will once and for all put to rest the more valid criticism of the “fragmentation” camp.
Nokia continues to insist it has no plans to deviate from its two-prong Symbian/MeeGo platform strategy, but the rumors that they’re looking to Android or Windows Phone 7 just keep on coming. Slipped quietly into a DigiTimes report on Android Honeycomb tablets is the suggestion that Nokia has been working with Google – and is among a cadre of smartphone manufacturers getting preferential treatment, no less – on an Android slate that could launch early in the first half of 2011.
The report also mentions Samsung, LG, HTC and Motorola as Google partners on Honeycomb tablets, each of whom we’ve seen various rumors attached to before. Nokia, though, is a new addition to the list; speculation has frequently suggested it is looking to Android for smartphones, but this is the first talk of Google’s OS on a Nokia-made tablet device.
Last we heard of Nokia’s tablet ambitions, the company was facing opposition from carriers over the Nokia Z500 tablet with complaints it was simply too expensive. The company maintains that MeeGo is its platform of choice for larger form-factor devices moving forward, though a commercially released product isn’t expected until sometime in 2011.
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