Now that I've got my Kindle Fire rooted and running Ice Cream Sandwich, a new name for it popped into my head, Kindle Baked Alaska.
I'm not sure how many of you are familiar with the dessert Baked Alaska, if not, it is a cake, covered with ice cream, and then a meringue and then baked. So it is kinda like mixing Fire with an Ice Cream Sandwich.
Just a thought, but I like it, and it's how I'll think of my rooted KF... unless a better name comes along or when the next version of Android comes out.
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Ah don’t you just love the way the Google guys keep on with the sweet names for their Android operating system, sooner or later they will run out of ideas, but not for the next version of their OS which will apparently be called Ice Cream.
According to an article over on the Boy Genius Report by Andrew Munchbach, a report by Pocket-lint says according to “multiple sourse familiar with the matter,” the Android 2.4 Ice Cream operating system is to be released by Google sometime in either June or July of this year.
Furthermore apparently Google is expected to announce this during Google I/O 2011 in San Francisco in May. Android Ice Cream will be the next in a long line for desert-style naming from Google with the Android platform receiving Cupcake, Donut, Eclair, Froyo, Gingerbread and then Android Honeycomb for Android tables, and now Ice Cream, one wonders where it will all end.
That’s all that’s known about the new operating system no word on just what to expect improvement wise or feature wise when Ice Cream finally makes it into the Android space. Any of our readers care to hazzard a guess at what Android 2.4 Ice Cream will deliver?
Source:
http://www.phonesreview.co.uk/2011/01/11/android-2-4-ice-cream-releasing-summertime/
http://www.fonehome.co.uk/2011/01/17/android-2-4-ice-cream-sandwich-features-we-want/
http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/37819/google-ice-cream-android-2-4
Nice info, thanks for sharing!
I thought the name would be Ice Cream Sandwich as mentioned in the second link.. still nice
But the versionnumber 2.4 is hard to believe when we are already at 2.3 even before Honeycomb. Even if (which I seriously doubt) Google would seperate their software in 2 different "branches" the newest branch will unlikely have a lower version number.
Just my 2 cents
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do you think the sgs will get any ice cream because i dont
considering how "fast" samsung moves at pushing out upgrades... i think you'll get 2.4 by year 2020
AllGamer said:
considering how "fast" samsung moves at pushing out upgrades... i think you'll get 2.4 by year 2020
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LOL
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What if the rumors about LG producing the "Nexus" tablet are true, and it will be the "Google Dev Platform" for when Google releases Ice Cream?
To me, Ice Cream seems to be a major melding of uber goodness tech under one platform, it would only make sense for Google to want to release it on a Nexus branded Tablet....
Just my speculation, but, What do you think?
PS, i just picked up my Xoom WIFI yesterday, and it Rocks! If this is what they are calling a half baked release, i cant wait for when its done cooking!!!!!!
Please read http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1026680
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I wish google would hint towards the future for us early adopters..
Forgetabout a new update lets see source!
Google promised updates for 18 months on new devices. http://thisismynext.com/2011/05/10/google-promises-android-devices-updates-18-months/
First tablet to market with Android 3.0
First tablet with Android 3.1
Google has announced 4.0 Ice cream.
Hopefully we'll be the first with 4.0 too
As far as the OP I don't think the question should be about Google updating the xoom really. Google makes honeycomb so i think the real question has to be whether they will update honeycomb again before ice cream comes out. As far as I can tell once the next version of android OS comes out the previous version seems to stop being upgraded (once froyo came eclair stopped moving, froyo stopped updating with gingerbread, etc). Will honeycomb stop with ice cream? judging by the past, probably.
As far as the future of early adopters, I think the best thing to hope for is that the xoom (tegra 2) will be sufficient to run ice cream and be compatible enough that it will appear OTA directly from Google. As far the xoom being the first device to get it, I highly doubt it. Odds are a new "vanilla" device be it phone or tablet will debut the OS (also with whatever developments have been made in mobile processors since tegra2 under the hood). Yes the naked truth is that it is a fast fast moving market.
The percs offered to early xoom owners from google have been: first to get honeycomb 3.1 and guaranteed invitation/acceptance to Google music. Beyond this I don't think Google has anymore special treatment up the sleeves. And I don't immagine they are that stoked about being subtly expected to do damage control for Motorola's 4g problems.
If there does happen to be a HC 3.2 upgrade before ice cream then perhaps xoom owners may be first to get it but at any rate i immagine ice cream ends up on the xoom regardles, either through xda or Google or of course both.
And I think that is the future for xoom owners.
Edit: and just to clarify, I dont think Google exactly promised that they would update devices for 18 months, but rather that their partners have promised to update their devices to run whatever compatible android versions are released for those devices for 18 months. I.e no being stuck on froyo forever even though your phone can run gingerbread. What we would want to hear iis tthat Google promises to release compatible updates for your device for 18 months, but this isnt what they said. Plus that would pivot around device release times which isn't possible. If a new device comes at the end of an OS cycle I doubt Google will carry version for another year because one phone hopped on at the last minute. Btw sorry to be so cynical guys, just calling it as i see it
No update no sd
It will most likely not be updated again and will not receive sd card support anymore.
HC 3.1 is the final version, next version is smoerrebroed 4.0.
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My guess is that the xoom will definitely get ice cream sandwich given that its a pure google device. The nexus s just came out and its specs are worse than the xoom and nexus will definitely get ice cream sandwich. Now whether the other tablets get the upgrade is up to the manufacturer.
Hardware specs are not the limiting factor to getting android upgrades, its manfacturers modding android to fit their custom software like compiz or motoblur.
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ice cream is for cellphones and tablets ( I think this is gonna be for 7" tablets and lower) and honeycomb is a OS optimized for tablets, so I think that we will see more honeycomb updates
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It will most likely not be updated again and will not receive sd card support anymore.
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This is absolute FUD. You don't know that this is true, nor have there been any indications from Google/Moto that this is the case. Stop scaremongering.
raviosopr said:
ice cream is for cellphones and tablets ( I think this is gonna be for 7" tablets and lower) and honeycomb is a OS optimized for tablets, so I think that we will see more honeycomb updates
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Ice Cream Sandwich will be the latest version of Android upon release and will apply to everything (phone, tablet, tv). They are not going to continue Honeycomb as some kind of separate "large screen tablet" branch after ics as you seem to be implying.
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My guess is that the xoom will definitely get ice cream sandwich given that its a pure google device. The nexus s just came out and its specs are worse than the xoom and nexus will definitely get ice cream sandwich. Now whether the other tablets get the upgrade is up to the manufacturer.
Hardware specs are not the limiting factor to getting android upgrades, its manfacturers modding android to fit their custom software like compiz or motoblur.
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US Xooms will probably get updates to ICS I guess... didn't they have a prototype of ICS at Google I/O on a Xoom?
raviosopr said:
ice cream is for cellphones and tablets ( I think this is gonna be for 7" tablets and lower) and honeycomb is a OS optimized for tablets, so I think that we will see more honeycomb updates
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No, they said it would be merging of the Tablet and Phone - so it should be any sized screen (although that probably just ranges from phone (can't think of lowest size, but lets say for the sake of argument 3" -> tablet 10.1"
jm9843 said:
Ice Cream Sandwich will be the latest version of Android upon release and will apply to everything (phone, tablet, tv). They are not going to continue Honeycomb as some kind of separate "large screen tablet" branch after ics as you seem to be implying.
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I concur - that's how I read it all too
Also I imagine there may be a couple of bugfixes along the way but nothing major till ICS (4.0?)
so maybe 3.1.1, 3.1.2, probably not a 3.2 - only if there's a new feature they want to push out that is fairly big...
However - if google are responsible for the SD Card slot - then 3.2 may address that issue - else it'd probably just be a 3.1.1 update judging on how they have done updating numbering on the past...
I think Google had Moto add SD to be ready for Ice cream. Its my idea that that was the plan maybe im crazy but who knows
In the what would be the newest Android OS 2.4, what changes do you think it'll bring, or what do you hope to see?
Correct me if I'm wrong on the version number.
The version is suppose to be 3.4 or 4.0
http://recombu.com/news/android-ice-cream-sandwich-what-we-know-so-far_M15194.html
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if youre talking about the Ice Cream Sandwich update, I think it will be 2.4. Honeycomb is 3.0+, I dont think theyll call it 4.0 unless they drastically change things. but check out Ice Cream Sandwich launcher, should be in the dev or theme/app section. has some "projections" of what it will look like
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if youre talking about the Ice Cream Sandwich update, I think it will be 2.4. Honeycomb is 3.0+, I dont think theyll call it 4.0 unless they drastically change things. but check out Ice Cream Sandwich launcher, should be in the dev or theme/app section. has some "projections" of what it will look like
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The launcher is by, syndicate apps, there in the android market.
From my fist to your face, enjoy.
Ice Cream Sandwich, sounds delicious right? It most certainly is, and it’s looking like another tablet maker is eager to hop on the bandwagon, and provide its user base with the latest version of Android.
With so many Android users chomping at the bit to know whether their device(s) will be receiving said update, it really couldn’t come at a better time. In the world of Android, the companies that act fastest to provide their customers with timely updates are typically those that earn not only the greatest amount of good will, but also the greatest amount of customers.
While this is unconfirmed at this point at time, we have faith. Thanks to the kind folks at Tablet-online.pl, we have received word that the Acer Iconia Tab A100/A101 and the A500/A501 will all get the upgrade to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich sometime in mid January, 2012. This would put it in line with the updates coming for the Motorola Xoom, the Asus Transformer, and others that we are hearing about at this monent.
Android product manager, Gabe Cohen, has said that any tablet running Honeycomb should, in theory, be able to run Ice Cream Sandwich. The underlying code between Honeycomb and Ice Cream Sandwich is nowhere the leap that is the code from Android 2.3 Gingerbread to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. How quickly said updates will come ultimately depends on whether the device is running a custom UI or not.
We’ll keep you posted! Any thoughts on this, Iconia Tab owners?
http://www.androidauthority.com/ace...-of-ice-cream-sandwich-in-january-2012-28458/
Could we please have five more threads on the same subject pretty please?
That article was posted here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1307584&page=10
Same article , different site.
kjy2010 said:
Could we please have five more threads on the same subject pretty please?
That article was posted here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1307584&page=10
Same article , different site.
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The truly funny thing is, when you go to post something it shows you similar posts that may make your post unnecessary.
I started writing a response and realized it was completely unnecessary.
So I wrote this one instead.
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The truly funny thing is, when you go to post something it shows you similar posts that may make your post unnecessary.
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My first thought was "Maybe his primary language is not English, so he couldn't read the suggestions", but his post was in English.......so there goes that excuse lol
Mid January? Going on Acer time that means late Fabruary, early March.
Ice Cream Sandwiches aren't served in scoops.
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