Android Ice Cream: Honeycomb Gingerbread 2.3 + 3.0

The roadmap on the future of Dell and Tablet smartphone leaked in the past few hours, you mentioned a new model, Dell Hancock, Equipped with Android Ice Cream, Trade name of next version of the operating system produced by the Mountain View giant. It 'was just Dave Burke, Google Android Engineering Director, to release some details in an interview, information confirmed by Google CEO Eric Schmidt during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

According to reports, Android Ice Cream should integrate the best of Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) and 3.0 (Honeycomb) so that it becomes a point of reference for the category of smartphones, for both the tablet device that, in substance, often have different needs. One of the details that appear to be a strong point of the new version of Android is that the Action Bar, Known to those who have a tablet Android 3.0, this will probably also in smartphones, increasing its capacity and improving the user experience.


In contrast to happen System Bar, usually at the bottom of the display of the tablet, which will not be repeated in the mobile device. But the news does not end there. The smartphone will win probably style interfaceKnown as Hologram. Not many details are known, but Google seems determined to erase the problem in the fragmentation of software solutions for smartphones and tablet combining, in one version, the best results from both categories product.

Eric Schmidt did not unbalanced in supporting the view an official launch date but said that the update cycles are generally 6 months and is therefore simple to do some account, at least hypothetical.