Next version of Android confirmed to be Ice Cream Sandwich

May 3, 2011

Next version of Android confirmed to be Ice Cream Sandwich 4

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Eric Schmidt said the following at Mobile World Congress in January:

“We have an OS called gingerbread for phones, we have an OS being previewed now for tablets called Honeycomb. The two of them… you can imagine the follow up will start with an I, be named after dessert, and will combine these two.”

The speculation is that it would be ice cream or ice cream sandwich. It is now just about confirmed from the following reply on the AOSP issues forum:

A bug fix will be provided in Ice Cream Sandwich.

We are not sure when Ice Cream Sandwich will be released, but we hope to see it at Google I/O. Stay tuned, as we will let you know as soon as we hear it.

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Robert lives in upstate New York where he was born and raised. Technology was always his passion. His first computer was a Radio Shack TRS80 Color that used a cassette tape to save programs, and his first laptop was a Toshiba T1200FB that sported a CGA greyscale screen and two 720kb floppy drives (no hardrive). From the early 90’s through late 2011, he only owned Motorola phones starting with the MircroTAC all the way through to the Droid X. He broke that streak when he bought the Galaxy Nexus. Now he's sporting a Galaxy Note 4, and absolutely loves it. He has a wonderful wife and a 6 year old son. In his free time he enjoys sports, movies, TV, working out, and trying to keep up with the rapid fast world of technology.