Next Android version will be called Froyo,
says Erick Tseng
By Vladislav Savov posted Jan 16th 2010 7:10PM
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Proving once again that those who don't watch The Engadget Show are always going to be one step behind those who do, our latest star guest Erick Tseng has dropped a dollop of exclusive wisdom on us: Android's next big iteration will be known as Froyo. That's short for "frozen yogurt" and fits right in line with the zany naming scheme that has delivered us Cupcakes, Donuts, and Eclairs so far. If you had your money on Flan being next in that alphabetical order, sorry to disappoint. No additional info could be squeezed out of the Google man at present -- such as how much further along Froyo will be from Android 2.1 (technically considered part of Eclair) or when we might expect the upgrade -- but we've got a name and that should be plenty to get us started on another wonderful journey of soothsaying and speculation.
2.1 is actually part of Eclair - as noted in the article.
Froyo looks to be whatever number Google wants to trot out next, whether that be 2.5, or 3.0.
Just read this and thought I'd share. Copied and pasted from PhoneDog.
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The name game!
Ginger, Ginger, bo Binger, Bonana fanna fo Finger
Fee fy mo Minger ... Honeycomb?
Yes, kids, it's time for another round of the Android Name Game! Today's episode is brought to you by WP Wong, Head of Product Planning at Samsung. Mr Wong, as Alex reported earlier, let fly this morning with the first on-record mention of Android OS: Codename "Honeycomb" from anyone with a better title than "Blogger" ahead of his name.
Turns out that folks inside Google HQ are strongly leaning towards making "Honeycomb" the first Android release optimized for tablets, and making it the 3.0 release, thus relegating "Gingerbread" (which we all thought would be 3.0) to incremental release status along the lines of 2.3 or 2.5. Or so I was told by "a person familiar with the matter" (everyone's favorite source!)
Gingerbread would slot into a role as the OS of choice for lower-end smartphones, while Honeycomb would be come the version restricted to tablets and "superphone" level devices. Sound familiar? Yeah, to me to - feels like just a few weeks ago we were talking about "Eclair" (2.0/2.1) being the low-end OS, while superphones got them some Froyo (2.2). Things change right quick in the tech game, huh?
Frankly, this won't much matter to the majority of consumers if indeed it proves true: Most folks want a phone that works, and couldn't care less about what form of sweetness its software is named after. You? You may well care, for any number of reasons ranging from to a stupid bet you made in a nerdy bar to anger that your 2.1 device might not be eligible for some Honeycomb. Me? I care because just a week ago I went on national TV yapping about how 3.0 would be called "Gingerbread." Ah, well, I'm still not wrong. I'm just saying that someone who knows just told me that I'll probably be proven wrong in the end. But hey, it's the risk I take for living such a dangerous life!
Sorry, I thought I was James Bond - and not a blogger - for a minute there ... End of Quote
Source:http://www.phonedog.com/2010/09/02/...-tablets-gingerbread-relegated-to-2-x-update/
Nice find.
Although other sources theorize that the version for it is different. One theory is that the tablet update (Gingerbread) will be numbered 3.0 and that the next phone update would be an incremented version of that. This early in the game it's impossible to draw any real conclusions but in that case Gingerbread (possibly a tablet update) would be a major update going to 3.0 and Honeycomb (the phone update?) would build off that and become 3.1 or even 3.2.
Google may launch Android 5.0 Jelly Bean in 2Q12
Viewing that the adoption of Android 4.0 has fallen short of original expectations and Microsoft will launch Windows 8 in the third quarter of 2012, Google is likely to launch Android 5.0 (Jelly Bean) in the second quarter and appeal for adopting Android 5.0 and Windows 8 in the same tablet PC, according to Taiwan-based supply chain makers.
Android 5.0 will be further optimized for tablet PCs, while Google will also integrate its Chrome system functions to push dual-operating system designs. Brand vendors can either choose to adopt only Android 5.0 or add Android 5.0 to Windows 8 devices with the ability to switch between the two OSes without the need to shut down the computer.
Through Android 5.0, Google also wishes to earn another chance to enter the notebook and netbook markets.
However, since Android 4.0 did not perform as well as expected, several of Google's downstream partners are turning conservative about Android 5.0.
Source http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20120215PD209.html
Finally folks will quit fussing about not having ICS yet. Now they will start fussing about not having Jelly Bean..........
This seems completely absurd. What does it mean by companies arent adopting ICS?? Arent we seeing lists of dates when ICS will be updated to HTc, Motorola, Acer, Asus hardware? Why would I want to boot into windows 8? Pure internets hogwash.
Microsoft has stated that Windows 8 tablets will have secure-boot meaning you will not be allowed/able to install another OS on the tablet, so how could Google promise to be able to switch between Android and Windows?
Weird article, a lot of loose claims about poor adoption of ICS and OEMs being wary about it (implied that they may be considering windows 8 instead) with no information whatsoever to back up those claims.
Honestly this reads just like one of those old-school, Microsoft-sponsored FUD pieces of yore.
I guess will start seeing tons of threads with polls on the release date for JB. I am sure people will be threatening to trade their TF for an ipad if it is not released by July 4th. It appears that OS development has be come a war of anticipation rather than actual delivered product.
Reeonimus said:
Microsoft has stated that Windows 8 tablets will have secure-boot meaning you will not be allowed/able to install another OS on the tablet, so how could Google promise to be able to switch between Android and Windows?
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Afaik it's not mandatory for OEMs to include secure-boot.
I think Digitimes is losing something in their translation from their Taiwanese supply contacts. We can pretty safely assume, that Jellybean will not be released in Q2 2012. It will likely be previewed at Google I/O (which is in Q2) and released in late Q4 2012 with the new nexus device. Also, the version number is more likely to be 4.1 not 5.0 since Jellybean will be building upon the new interface paradigms introduced in ICS. Similar to how Froyo and GB were point releases after Eclair.
That's my gut feeling anyway, for what its worth.
Reeonimus said:
Microsoft has stated that Windows 8 tablets will have secure-boot meaning you will not be allowed/able to install another OS on the tablet, so how could Google promise to be able to switch between Android and Windows?
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Partially true.
Windows 8 ARM based tablets do have to have secure boot enabled, it can't be disabled, only signed OS's will boot, and only MS can sign the OS's, so basically for ARM based Windows 8 tablets (at least if the company selling it wants the "Windows 8" sticker), they will be locked to MS, until someone hacks it.
For x86 based Windows 8 tablets and PC's, they must ship with secure boot enabled, but you will be able to disable that in Bios/Uefi and load OS's without signed bootloaders (like android, linux, etc).
Basically the same situation we have now. ARM based tablets from Google partners and Apple have a locked bootloader, so no other OS can be loaded, unless you hack it.
tmcquake said:
I think Digitimes is losing something in their translation from their Taiwanese supply contacts. We can pretty safely assume, that Jellybean will not be released in Q2 2012. It will likely be previewed at Google I/O (which is in Q2) and released in late Q4 2012 with the new nexus device. Also, the version number is more likely to be 4.1 not 5.0 since Jellybean will be building upon the new interface paradigms introduced in ICS. Similar to how Froyo and GB were point releases after Eclair.
That's my gut feeling anyway, for what its worth.
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It does seem like a quick transition from ICS to Jelly Bean... I agree with you.
tmcquake said:
I think Digitimes is losing something in their translation from their Taiwanese supply contacts. We can pretty safely assume, that Jellybean will not be released in Q2 2012. It will likely be previewed at Google I/O (which is in Q2) and released in late Q4 2012 with the new nexus device. Also, the version number is more likely to be 4.1 not 5.0 since Jellybean will be building upon the new interface paradigms introduced in ICS. Similar to how Froyo and GB were point releases after Eclair.
That's my gut feeling anyway, for what its worth.
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1, Google announced it will push updates to Android every 6th month. So counting from November 17th, it would be around the middle of May. It won't be previewed, but released at Google I/O, with the new Nexus device (just as before, and also probably the attendants are getting a free device too).
2, Google told, that from now on, with ICS, they are stepping in major version numbers for each main release. So JB is for sure 5.0.x, and ICS will be 4.x going on.
JoTeC said:
It does seem like a quick transition from ICS to Jelly Bean... I agree with you.
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Companies are moving to quicker and quicker release cycles with less and less content. Really small, focused updates. Google themselves basically started this trend (or popularized it if they didn't actually start it) with the Chrome browser, which releases frequently. You have have noticed that FireFox has gone from version 3.x to version 10.1 in record time, as they have adopted the same mentality. I would not be shocked at all to see Google apply it to Andorid, and we start seeing Android 5, 6, 7, etc., at a rapid pace.
EDIT: oops, fonix232 beat me to it.
fonix232 said:
1, Google announced it will push updates to Android every 6th month. So counting from November 17th, it would be around the middle of May. It won't be previewed, but released at Google I/O, with the new Nexus device (just as before, and also probably the attendants are getting a free device too).
2, Google told, that from now on, with ICS, they are stepping in major version numbers for each main release. So JB is for sure 5.0.x, and ICS will be 4.x going on.
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My post was speculation, you seem to be stating facts. What sources are you basing this on (besides just stating "Google told")?
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My post was speculation, you seem to be stating facts. What sources are you basing this on (besides just stating "Google told")?
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I base my facts on reading the news and their announces from various pages, including Android Blog (d.android.com), XDA itself, AndroidPolice, and many other news sites, Google's and Jean-Baptiste Queru's (head of Android development, the talks-guy, pretty awesome dude!) Twitter, and many more.
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I base my facts on reading the news and their announces from various pages, including Android Blog (d.android.com), XDA itself, AndroidPolice, and many other news sites, Google's and Jean-Baptiste Queru's (head of Android development, the talks-guy, pretty awesome dude!) Twitter, and many more.
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Good for you buddy, high five. Could you post some links then?
Does this come from anywhere besides Digitimes? They have a pretty hit and miss record for reporting the news.
tmcquake said:
Good for you buddy, high five. Could you post some links then?
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Do you seriously want me to look back half or even a year old entries on sites what are growing like 10post/day?
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Do you seriously want me to look back half or even a year old entries on sites what are growing like 10post/day?
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Yes, seriously. Tell you what, provide 1 link that backs up your post.
Listen, don't take it personally. I don't know you so I can't take you at your word. I just want to something that backs up your claims. I follow android development pretty closely and I haven't read anywhere that android releases will be pushed to 6 months apart and all new releases will be full version numbers. AFAIK The last time that google commented on android development cycles was here,
http://androidandme.com/2010/06/news/interviews/android-will-move-to-a-yearly-update-cycle/
I just want a source so I can be better educated on the subject. It's not personal.
JoTeC said:
Viewing that the adoption of Android 4.0 has fallen short of original expectations and Microsoft will launch Windows 8 in the third quarter of 2012, Google is likely to launch Android 5.0 (Jelly Bean) in the second quarter and appeal for adopting Android 5.0 and Windows 8 in the same tablet PC, according to Taiwan-based supply chain makers.
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Oh, goodie, another rushed Android release. Because that just went *so* damned well with Honeycomb.
Seriously, if this has a grain of truth to it, Google need to get a clue, and finish writing and testing their software properly before they release it.
I want a source straight from the horse's mouth. Digitimes is a garbage source and all of the articles I've seen so far are equally garbage because they cite Digitimes which is a garbage source.
Nothing is authoritative here, there are no statements from Google.
efore Ice Cream Sandwich has managed to reach more than 1% of Android devices, reports are suggesting that its successor, Android 5.0 ‘Jelly Bean’, could launch as soon as June.
The news comes in the form of a Digitimes report, which is known for being hit-and-miss with its accuracy, but cites supply chain sources that state the search giant will seek to release its new Android platform to provide competition to Microsoft’s new Windows 8 operating system, which will debut in the third quarter.
With Android 5.0 thought to deliver yet more features for tablet devices, Taiwanese suppliers are already to deliver dual-OS tablets and notebooks, which will be able to instantly switch between Google’s and Microsoft’s mobile-friendly platforms.
Despite officially launching with the release of the Galaxy Nexus at the end of last year, Ice Cream Sandwich has yet to reach the majority of new Android smartphones and is only expected to receive a boost in take-up when the world’s biggest mobile vendors release new devices at Mobile World Congress, commencing at the end of the month.
By February, Gingerbread (in particular versions Android versions 2.3.3 - 2.3.7) accounted for 58.6% of Android gadgets, while the latest flavour accounted for just one percent of devices.
It is believed that Google will use its new Android release to galvanise its re-entry into the notebook and netbook markets, after Chromebook sales failed to take off. As a result, Google’s partners are reported to be “conservative” about utilising the new platform.
Source --> thenextweb
Well, this isn't very much Wildfire related as official support from CyanogenMod ended at Gingerbread, and this will be, by the looks of it, just for tablets and notebooks.
Official support will return with ics the unofficial port of cm 9 is very stable already
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LSD DREAMER said:
Official support will return with ics the unofficial port of cm 9 is very stable already
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That's a strong statement to say about the unofficial port of cm9 as not all features work yet. eg camera etc.. I wouldn't class it stable yet! but with people working at it, it may in time.
Oh I don't think it will become official, sorry to say, time to move on folks
... But if it does, congrats.
I do miss my wildfire though. But i got my SGS on a cheap contract $30 a month so couldn't pass it up.
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apollopayne said:
That's a strong statement to say about the unofficial port of cm9 as not all features work yet. eg camera etc.. I wouldn't class it stable yet! but with people working at it, it may in time.
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But then the camera doesn't work on many ICS roms.
Even if we don't get official support we got ErwinP
Hes doing a pretty good job with it.
It was smooth enough when i OC'ed to 652Mhz.