It's all go at Google these days. They've just shown off their latest version of the Android mobile operating system; Ice Cream Sandwich, and their hardware partner Samsung has announced the Galaxy Nexus as the first handset to sport it. Now it seems there's another Android Nexus phone packing Ice Cream Sandwich, and it's not the one you expected.
Owners of the Nexus S experience smartphone will be glad to know that Google has officially confirmed that the next major version of Android i.e. 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich will be coming to their device “soon”.
We're getting closer and closer to a Samsung/Google announcement, which we presume will be home to the new Nexus handset, complete with Google's brand new mobile operating system - Ice Cream Sandwich. Samsung and Google have already delayed the announcement once, reportedly due to Apple co-founder Steve Jobs' sad passing, but the event itself can't be too far off.
Samsung / Google Delay Nexus Prime and Ice Cream Sandwich Launch Event Out Of Respect For Steve Jobs
According to a report published just now, Samsung and Google have decided to postpone their Nexus Prime / Android Ice Cream Sandwich event out of respect for the just-passed Apple co-founder and ex-CEO Steve Jobs.
It is official folks: Samsung is holding an event on October 11th titled UNPACKED 2011: Google Episode where they are slated to announce new hardware and software.
A video showing Google’s Nexus S smartphone running Android Ice Cream Sandwich popped up earlier today. Want to know why it may or may not be fake? We’ve covered that after the jump!
While we haven’t even seen the first official photos of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich yet, the developer community has come up with an actual launcher which is based on its looks!
Well, the summer maybe coming to a close for 2011, but that doesn't mean it's too late for a delicious Ice Cream Sandwich. According to Rohan Shravan, CEO of Notion Ink, the company's "Adam" tablet, scheduled for release in early November, will run Android's upcoming OS which, according to him, will be released in late October.
By now, you’ve probably heard news of Hewlett-Packard discontinuing their line of webOS devices and “spinning off” their PC business; the discontinuation of the webOS-based TouchPad has left retailers with thousands of units which are now being sold for as cheap as $99. You may want to get your own $99 TouchPad too, as a group of developers have announced the TouchDroid project which aims to bring Android to the TouchPad.
The next version of Android, codenamed 'Ice Cream Sandwich', has been long-awaited by many Android users despite the lack of information on what the new operating system will actually include. At last, some blurry pictures of Ice Cream Sandwich have leaked, and they look promising.
