Under the count of 24 hours, right after Motorola unveiled its latest Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) phone, Google and Samsung unveiled a smartphone running the next-generation Android 4.0 OS (named Android Ice Cream Sandwich) in New York City is officially going to come out.
The first mobile phone to get Ice Cream Sandwich is the new Samsung Galaxy Nexus, which will come with Google's operating system is installed natively. Nexus Galaxy will be launched in the United States in November, but no information about pricing or carrier.
Google has confirmed that the Ice Cream Sandwich will also attend the Nexus S, according to Engadget. Two Google executives said the company's website is "currently in the process to release Ice Cream Sandwich Nexus S. In theory [which] should work for every device 2.3 ".
The phones that run Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) are: HTC's Desire, Desire Z, Desire HD, Droid Incredible, Droid Incredible 2, Evo 4G, Incredible S, and ThunderBolt; LG's Optimus 2X and Optimus One; Motorola's Atrix 4G, Droid 2, Droid Pro, and Droid X; Google's Nexus One and Nexus S; Samsung's Galaxy S; Sony's Xperia X10; and T-Mobile's G2 and myTouch 4G.
Whats new on Android Ice Cream Sandwich?
Android Ice Cream Sandwich completely redesigns and refreshes Android.
A big feature update is the addition of nonphysical navigation buttons. Google hasn't yet explained how or if this will work with phones that currently have physical navigation buttons (such as the Droid X), so if your phone has physical navigation buttons you may not want to get too excited.
Some of the other things you can look forward to include: folder creation, recent apps, improved notifications, as well as updates to Gmail, the calendar app, the browser (which now supports tabbed browsing), and the speech-to-text software.
Monday, November 7, 2011
Android Ice Cream Sandwich
11/07/2011
News Staff
