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Google announces universal OS Ice Cream Sandwich

"One OS that runs everywhere." There you have it, folks! Google intends to meld its Honeycomb tablet wares and Gingerbread smartphone software into one delicious Ice Cream Sandwich. Maybe that's why the "sandwich" bit is in the name?Either way, it'll be a universal OS that runs on everything from teeny tiny Android phones to 10-inch tablets and will intelligently adapt to each form factor with things like a resizable status bar. Some other fancy new additions are being demonstrated right now, including face-tracking and camera focus shifting based on voice recognition.
http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/10/google-announces-ice-cream-sadwich-for-q4-2011-for-smartphones/

kunalgahlot said:
"One OS that runs everywhere." There you have it, folks! Google intends to meld its Honeycomb tablet wares and Gingerbread smartphone software into one delicious Ice Cream Sandwich. Maybe that's why the "sandwich" bit is in the name?Either way, it'll be a universal OS that runs on everything from teeny tiny Android phones to 10-inch tablets and will intelligently adapt to each form factor with things like a resizable status bar. Some other fancy new additions are being demonstrated right now, including face-tracking and camera focus shifting based on voice recognition.
http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/10/google-announces-ice-cream-sadwich-for-q4-2011-for-smartphones/
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Ah so they are making it severely scalable.
pretty cool.

This is awesome news.

Atlast...
They should have done that with honeycomb.
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so 2.3.3 won't be the last Android version for X10
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Wait for my X10

I dont like the name at all XD lol. but i guess that is good news.. the strange thing is the idea of the universal OS.. it may had diferent configuration for each phone according the specs or difrent values from the ice cream sandwich OS

google sure loves food(ice cream sandwich and Gingerbread!!)

KInG GaME said:
google sure loves food(ice cream sandwich and Gingerbread!!)
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And Frozen Youghurt (Froyo).

KInG GaME said:
google sure loves food(ice cream sandwich and Gingerbread!!)
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Every android version is based on names of food.
C-Cupcake(1.5)
D-Donut(1.6)
E-Eclair(2.1)
F-Froyo(2.2)
G-Gingerbread(2.3)
H-Honeycomb(3.0,3.1)
I-Ice cream sandwich(Unknown)

FOOD another reason for loving android

Good news!!

Oh my, There really is a god
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kunalgahlot said:
so 2.3.3 won't be the last Android version for X10
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X10 wont go further than 2.3 and we're bloody luck to get that off Sony. I'd imagine a dev will make a custom rom of this so we shouldn't miss out ;-)
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As The Gingerbread Man says, this definitely won't officially be coming to the X10.
You are just being mislead by it being a "universal OS". It's not universal in the sense that any phone currently available will be able to update to Ice Cream Sandwich. It's universal in the sense that it works on both phones AND tablets without having a seperate OS for each.

Whys it say any sized phone..? Lol
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[email protected] said:
Whys it say any sized phone..? Lol
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It's scalable..
That means it will be able to run on almost any device.
And be able to scale itself to the required device.
By automatically enabling or disabling features, effects, capabilities, ect..

Waiting for my X10

Then it should work for the x10? Right?
Google does know some **** lol.. I have a buddy that works for them.. you should see his google laptop that runs Linux its the most insane thing I've ever seen
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himanthaj said:
Waiting for my X10
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Sony ericcson have already stated that the update to 2.3 will be our last OS update and concidering they were going to leave us officially on 2.1. The only way you will see this on your x10 is by a custom rom by our devs, its that simple.
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[Q] Will GB 2.3.4 be last firmware update for SGS?

or there will be some more?

Good question. I really hope we can get icecream sandwich!
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Yes 2.3.4 will be the last version for samsung i9000

lvvine said:
Yes 2.3.4 will be the last version for samsung i9000
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Do you have any backing of this claim?
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topiratiko said:
Do you have any backing of this claim?
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I guess common sense...

kotsos44 said:
I guess common sense...
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LOL not exactly backing up the claim huh
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Google is trying to get manufacturers to give at least 18 months of updates from device release so I expect icecream sandwich to be the last for our devices as it was released in may 2010 but it was announced in jan 2010 so I could be wrong.

Dopedangel said:
Google is trying to get manufacturers to give at least 18 months of updates from device release so I expect icecream sandwich to be the last for our devices as it was released in may 2010 but it was announced in jan 2010 so I could be wrong.
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yup thats it - but as for now they dont know hw spec needed for icecream so no new data on it

I am sure the cooks wud release ice cream sandwich if not samsung.
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yea that would be great news to us all... fingers crossed..

Every new version and the same freaking question pops up... will it be the last...
Then we get a lot of speculation and mumbo-jumbo about why it is or it is not...
Why don't you use the damn thing and stop the nonesense...

my guess is the next verion will be last
so samsung can say will take care after the guys who bougth SGS too lol =]

i don;t think Samsung will release ice cream sandwich. but it will be available as custom roms for sure

as long as cm or miui are supporting sgs its very much possible

If Samsung won't release Ice Cream Sandwich the CM7-team will do it.
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Samsung galaxy insurance receive the upgrade to 2.4 GB.

Lunchbox115 said:
If Samsung won't release Ice Cream Sandwich the CM7-team will do it.
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We will see. In CM we trust...

Lunchbox115 said:
If Samsung won't release Ice Cream Sandwich the CM7-team will do it.
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Dude, what are you taking about, they don't know how finish cm7 on ginger and you think they will make fully stable cm icecream release.
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ebay scammer

This douche is trying to sell a Galaxy S and is advertising that it is unopened and unused with Android 2.4 "Ice cream sandwich" installed. I want to report him but can't find anything in the "report policy" that pertains to this. I don't use ebay all that often, is this quite common? Hopefully most people ignore it and don't fall for it.
http://www.ebay.ca/itm/Brand-New-Sa...ile_Phones&hash=item4aade1133d#ht_8630wt_1958

LOL ice cream sandwich isn't that for tablets ? And the os version should be 3.1 or 3.2 no ?
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shahkam said:
LOL ice cream sandwich isn't that for tablets ? And the os version should be 3.1 or 3.2 no ?
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ICS is supposed to be where Honeycomb and Gingerbread meet and work for both tablets and phones. However, there is no ICS in the wild, if there were it would be here and it certainly isn't on a brand new Galaxy S 1.

Any chance that Ice Cream Sandwich really IS loaded onto the device?

No.
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hansonator said:
ICS is supposed to be where Honeycomb and Gingerbread meet and work for both tablets and phones. However, there is no ICS in the wild, if there were it would be here and it certainly isn't on a brand new Galaxy S 1.
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thats true.........

Maybe they split icecream on it?
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First of all there is no android 2.4, after 2.3.4 its 3.0.

mammenj said:
First of all there is no android 2.4, after 2.3.4 its 3.0.
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Isn't the latest AOSP rom 2.3.5

xchasa said:
Maybe they split icecream on it?
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Hahaha ! Who knows
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will I9000 get ice cream sandwhich

will we get the ice cream sandwhich update for our devices.......
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I seriously don't think I9000 will get any update beyond 2.3.x

Me to..i think dont.. But hey.. We already got ton of talent dev Here..maybe we still can taste of ics..
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I will say ...
We have to look at nexus s first

Officially? Maybe.
CM7 Version? Most definitely.
For now you guys might want to try the ICS Launcher. It's currently taken down from the Market, but if you Google it you can still download it from their website for free...
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Beware the ICS launcher - the one I downloaded requested permission to dial out, so I didn't take any risk and deleted it immediately.
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oo.viper.oo said:
Beware the ICS launcher - the one I downloaded requested permission to dial out, so I didn't take any risk and deleted it immediately.
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I believe all lauchers do.

I guess ICS source code should be published first , in order for the cm7 team adopts it.
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I think our phone will get ICS officially from samsung.Dont forget SGS was samsung flagship and it is this phone only that turned samsung into android champion.You see samsung is updating SGS as fast as SGS II
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I think we will and should get it as galaxy s has a very capable hardware.
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Think so. have nothing official to base this statement on but I really think so. i'm not seeing google leaving nexus s on 2.3 without an update to ICS, even with a new phone coming up, and galaxy s has just about the same hardware.
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And they want to avoid fragmentation so they should update us as well.
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I read somewhere that any device capable of running gingerbread would be updated to ICS

I don't see any reason they won't provide an update to ICS... after all this phone was produced merely about a year ago, and is still one of the best (despite the fact that Samsung completely messed up with the RFS file system...) .

Ive also heard that any device capable of running GB will be able to run ICS, however the only thing that may hold the phone back is the limited ram :/
I do however hope we get ICS!!!
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gtluis said:
I read somewhere that any device capable of running gingerbread would be updated to ICS
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Maybe here ?
"At Google I/O I asked the Android team if Ice Cream Sandwich had any special hardware requirements that would prevent it from running on existing smartphones. They didn’t name specific handsets, but we were told that most phones which could run Android 2.3 would be able to handle the update. That doesn’t guarantee anything for current Android smartphone owners, but we expect Google’s own Nexus One and Nexus S will be some of the first devices upgraded to Android 4.0."
source: androidandme.com
This is interesting too:
"If you are a fan of custom ROMs, then you will be happy to know that Google plans to release Ice Cream Sandwich to the Android Open Source Project. Google typically releases the source code to each version of Android a few months after it debuts on a new device, but they chose not to do this with Honeycomb. Andy Rubin said Google wanted to prevent developers from putting the software on phones “and creating a really bad user experience. We have no idea if it will even work on phones.”
Ice Cream Sandwich will be available for the development community to hack to their hearts’ content and I’m sure we will see CyanogenMod 8 a month after the source code is public."
...............And maybe that Samsung could surprise us with a ICS firmware for i9000...

I think our SGS will get ICS officialy, btw I don't think it will bring any major improvement (as happened with gingerbread).
However it would be better to be updated because some new apps probably will only work on ICS.

titooo7 said:
I think our SGS will get ICS officialy, btw I don't think it will bring any major improvement (as happened with gingerbread).
However it would be better to be updated because some new apps probably will only work on ICS.
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One big: Hardware accelerated UI (and the sgx540 still a really good gpu).
After that, i think you can say it's smoother than ever on your i9000

Why would launcher need to dial out? You have a dialer / phone apk for that, I guess.
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sgs has had enough updates there r new phones like sgs2 an the comming soon so thier prefrence will b first an hardware wise those will run better....i dont like the gb on sgs , i got sgs2 an the gb works kool....i think eclair,froyo were the best to perform on sgs....
more ever dev creat a good custum rom so (don expect much)..........cheeerz

[INFO] Google´s next Android OS "Jelly Bean"

Close on the heels of Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt announcing the arrival of the upcoming version of Android OS termed Ice Cream Sandwich in October or November, speculations have started on the next version of Android.
According to a report citing trusted sources in 'This is My Next', Jelly Bean is the working name for next incarnation of Android.
The name follows Google's tradition of calling its Android operating systems after sweets in alphabetical order. Earlier versions of Android follow a typical order -- Cupcake 1.5, Donut 1.6, Eclair 2.1, Froyo 2.2, Gingerbread 2.3, Honeycomb 3.0 and the upcoming Ice Cream Sandwich.
The report quotes industry source saying, that the "game-changing stuff" that had originally been scheduled for Ice Cream Sandwich will be being pushed to Jelly Bean. Jelly Bean could be dubbed Android 4.5 or Android 5.0, depending on the amount of features packed, says the report.
Ice Cream Sandwich is expected to be a universal operating system that will work on phones, tablets, TVs, and even phones that transform into laptops. Among other things, the OS is likely to bring an updated app launcher, holographic user interface, interactive and new homescreen widgets and a multi-tasking panel.
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Not much information there, besides the name "Jelly Bean". Has that been known already?

Anyone get the OTA yet?

I thought ics was the game changer os? The one that was push back from gingerbread ?

The holographic user interface is still being shopped around huh? That junk was being hyped up pre-honeycomb release too.

Doubt it we will see that on nexus s
Maybe the nexus++ and galaxy nexus
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i think this will be only running on dual , triple or quad core devices The nexus one was too old for the ICS Update, likely the Nexus S will be also too old for 5.0
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nandihno said:
Doubt it we will see that on nexus s
Maybe the nexus++ and galaxy nexus
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I can't name my source, but it'll be released with the Samsung Galaxy Nexus Optimus Prime Meridian VII.
but you didn't hear that from me.

Double post. Sorry.

decalex said:
I can't name my source, but it'll be released with the Samsung Galaxy Nexus Optimus Prime Meridian VII.
but you didn't hear that from me.
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so nexus S won't be getting jelly bean?

devgee said:
The report quotes industry source saying, that the "game-changing stuff" that had originally been scheduled for Ice Cream Sandwich will be being pushed to Jelly Bean. Jelly Bean could be dubbed Android 4.5 or Android 5.0,
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Wasn't the GB supposed to be revolutionary ? Then they pushed it to ICS, now Jelly. Google, little less hype please.

madd0g said:
Wasn't the GB supposed to be revolutionary ? Then they pushed it to ICS, now Jelly. Google, little less hype please.
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Google hasn't even commented on Jelly Bean so how are they hyping it? In fact, I think they toned down the ICS announcement because apparently a lot of stuff was pushed back to the next major release. And Gingerbread was definitely the first release of Android that Google could really be proud of.

bozzykid said:
Google hasn't even commented on Jelly Bean so how are they hyping it? In fact, I think they toned down the ICS announcement because apparently a lot of stuff was pushed back to the next major release. And Gingerbread was definitely the first release of Android that Google could really be proud of.
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Yes.
In the meantime I'll just edit my buildprop to display jellybean. Android 6.0
To even out with iOS
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annoymous1234 said:
so nexus S won't be getting jelly bean?
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Yes, but only those operated in the northeast corner of North America and the southern half of Argentina, for the S. The 4G will receive the update directly after 4.0.3 is pushed out, and only in Bosnia.

Braneless said:
Yes, but only those operated in the northeast corner of North America and the southern half of Argentina, for the S. The 4G will receive the update directly after 4.0.3 is pushed out, and only in Bosnia.
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Seems reasonable
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Tsk...
They always forget the underestimated backnamed Apple Pie and Banana Bread...
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ozone89 said:
Tsk...
They always forget the underestimated backnamed Apple Pie and Banana Bread...
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+1
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Even if its not an official OTA release, I'm sure we will get it. This is the xda developer forums after all .
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annoymous1234 said:
so nexus S won't be getting jelly bean?
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I don't know but in my opinion, Nexus S is already full squeezed with ICS, so JB probably would be too much for Nexus S hardware.

Bramax said:
I don't know but in my opinion, Nexus S is already full squeezed with ICS, so JB probably would be too much for Nexus S hardware.
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Depends what Jelly Bean will be, a more optimized build with couple smaller addons or more HD content oriented OS.