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Android Ice Cream Sandwich Coming Q4 2011 + Honeycomb 3.1

CM7 has been set to be outdated this coming fall as Android Ice Cream Sandwich has been scheduled for release in Q4. Ice Cream will be the Honeycomb tie-in we were expecting for Phones as well as a few other features you can check out in the below URL. However, what's not clear is what it's Version Number will be. As 3.1 has been claimed by the soon to be released Update for Honeycomb (for Xoom at least), that will include things like the new Market Movie Rentals features among other things (which you can check out in the 2nd URL).
http://m.lifehacker.com/5800417/the-new-features-of-android-31-ice-cream-sandwich
http://blog.gizmodo.com/5800410/whats-new-in-android-31-honeycomb
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Ugh... Eclair, OK. Froyo, OK. Honeycomb, OK.
But Ice Cream Sandwich rolls off the tongue like a reading of your mortgage statement.
I'm not speaking of the OS, itself, of course, just the naming of it.

hmm yeah plus its long .. we can call it Android ICS just to make it decent lol

Personally, I'm going to call it Ice Cream because that's two syllables just like the previous names and calling it ICS isn't very attractive either.
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japzone said:
Personally, I'm going to call it Ice Cream because that's two syllables just like the previous names and calling it ICS isn't very attractive either.
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Actually, Gingerbread is 3 syllables too

evertec said:
Actually, Gingerbread is 3 syllables too
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Ice Cream Sandwich is 4 syllables...

I wonder if battery life will have improved or declined from Gingerbread to Ice Cream Sandwich (yea that is God Awful.) That was the biggest benefit I saw going from Froyo to Gingerbread.

My Sony Google TV will be a lot more useful now! Thank god!!!

yumm, ice cream. can't wait

virtualkaos said:
My Sony Google TV will be a lot more useful now! Thank god!!!
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Yeah I forgot to mention GoogleTV devices will be getting Honeycomb and Android Market.
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I appreciate that Google is announcing all of this. And I hope things work out well with HC and ICS. But many things can happen in six months. Here is a more cynical reading of Google's announcements:
1. Honeycomb - We tried to catch up with Apple's iPad. It didn't work out real well. HC is a kludge we made to get tablets on the market fast. We are not going to release the source code for HC, ever.
2. ICS - We will have a statue of an ice cream sandwich on the lawn next to our other Android statues. We will have this statue in place by December 31, 2012. As far as manufacturers having ICS phones and tablets you can buy for the Christmas holidays, well, we aren't promising anything.
I know this is harsh, but this is also reality. Google worked hard for quite a while before Android for phones became good to excellent. I believe that Google will get the whole tablet <-> phone integrated operating system working very well. I hope it happens sooner rather than later.
Right now I am running CM7 on my Nook Color and enjoying it. I don't feel like I'm missing out by not having Honeycomb, but I'm sure I'll give it a try before too long.

From Phonescoop:
"Google today confirmed that the new Ice Cream Sandwich system software will be able to run on nearly all current Android hardware. It won't have any specific hardware requirements that might preclude it from working on older handsets."
Does NC count as current Android hardware?

angomy said:
From Phonescoop:
"Google today confirmed that the new Ice Cream Sandwich system software will be able to run on nearly all current Android hardware. It won't have any specific hardware requirements that might preclude it from working on older handsets."
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This pretty much means, anything that can run 2.2 and 2.3 will probably be able to run Ice Cream, that includes the Nook Color, although we'll probably have to wait for someone to get a ROM for Nook working. Depending on how Ice Cream will be setup, we may need to also wait for CM8 to have a good experience with it. But who knows, maybe it'll already have all the Features needed to be usable on the Nook.
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japzone said:
This pretty much means, anything that can run 2.2 and 2.3 will probably be able to run Ice Cream, that includes the Nook Color, although we'll probably have to wait for someone to get a ROM for Nook working. Depending on how Ice Cream will be setup, we may need to also wait for CM8 to have a good experience with it. But who knows, maybe it'll already have all the Features needed to be usable on the Nook.
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Honeycomb and/or ICS shouldn't be a problem for us. By the time ICS source is released we might even have a 2.6.35+ kernel port(not that its needed).

dalingrin said:
Honeycomb and/or ICS shouldn't be a problem for us. By the time ICS source is released we might even have a 2.6.35+ kernel port(not that its needed).
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I am more excited at the thought that you (and others) may still be around with the nook at that time. Word that i am reading is the ICS will drop late this year (like, Oct or later), so if you guys stick around with us that long, it would be awesome.

Divine_Madcat said:
I am more excited at the thought that you (and others) may still be around with the nook at that time. Word that i am reading is the ICS will drop late this year (like, Oct or later), so if you guys stick around with us that long, it would be awesome.
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I probably will. I've no plans to buy another tablet until Tegra 3 and ICS.

dalingrin said:
I probably will. I've no plans to buy another tablet until Tegra 3 and ICS.
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Works for me. Heck, even if you do get another tablet, perhaps we can persuade you to hold on to your nook and develop on it, for old times sake.

[Q] do you think galaxy tab will get android 4?

With ice cream sandwich coming out at the end of the year, does galaxy tab not qualify for it? As far as i know its within the 18 period for upgrades as specified by google. Or am i completely wrong on the release date?
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lexian_za said:
With ice cream sandwich coming out at the end of the year, does galaxy tab not qualify for it? As far as i know its within the 18 period for upgrades as specified by google. Or am i completely wrong on the release date?
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i don't think so. even honeycomb will not come in our tab officially but thanks to Spacemoose1 we will have HC soon.

I dont think so either.. I got my tab 6 months ago and feel like its already outdated by the dual cores out now like the xoom and new galaxy tab 10 and with the new icecream comming up I dont think that itll be getting the update.. Also by hearing talk of quad cores coming out.. Im not 100% but I have read they want to push the new android cause the new apple os they want android phones n tabs based on the same instead of froyo n gingerbread on phones and honeycomb on tabs. Who knows we might end up seeing it... Until they announce it we wont know for sure.

Galaxy Tab is a high end device, samsung should take care of their high end customers.
If not, there is CyanogenMod. I get android 2.3.5 faster than Samsung's release
I might get Ice Cream Sandwich faster than Samsung release as well

Guys, we will always get faster releases from Spacemoose, the CM team, ect, as it pertains to the Galaxy Tab. Unfortunately, the device was "dead on arrival", and has seen almost zero support from the carriers or Samsung. I firmly believe that (while the Tab is spectacular) it was nothing more than a "feeler"… a test product, thrown into the market, in order to guage the public's desire for tablet devices. I'm pretty sure that the 10.1, Xoom, and other tablets were already being tested when the 7" Tab came out, and that it was always the plan to make the 10" tablets the real "powerhouse" devices. Fortunately, we have great devs on XDA, who thumb their noses at Samsung's lack of support, and work hard to get us at least one or two really excellent ROMs. No doubt, we will never see a Honeycomb or ICS OTA, but Space is working to complete the Honeycomb 3.2 port, and I'm sure we'll see an ICS firmware almost as soon as it drops! Happy flashing guys!!
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[Q] ICS & Touchpad

Since the touchpad is being added to the official CM releases, and ICS right around the corner, is anyone thinking that they stick with WebOS until touchpad is part of official CM, which will certainly adopt ICS soon?

In what alternate reality did you think this was development?

The alpha of android brings 10x more functionality then WebOS did. Why go backwards?
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mmontanaa said:
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN ICE CREAM SANDWICH COMES OUT?
You mean the next version of Android expected from Google sometime in November '11? Well, if the transition from Froyo (2.2) to Gingerbread (2.3) is a model, it may take several months from the release of the Ice Cream Sandwich source code before a viable port to TouchPad is available.
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~from the cm7 alpha thread
The real question is why not install it anyway instead of waiting.

not to mention its set up to dual boot...you can have both at the same time...you wont gain anything by waiting

IMO they really blew it with the name. "Ice Cream Sundae" would be much better than just a sandwich.

I'd rather wait for ICS instead of putting a phone OS on a big screen

thebadfrog said:
In what alternate reality did you think this was development?
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in what reality is your signature funny? You have to be pretty stupid to find that funny, or you are just trying to be retarded on purpose.

vilator said:
in what reality is your signature funny? You have to be pretty stupid to find that funny, or you are just trying to be retarded on purpose.
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I'm just trying to be retarded n00b

ace9988 said:
I'd rather wait for ICS instead of putting a phone OS on a big screen
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keep waiting for awhile. As they say "dont knock it, until you try it"
Yes, it is a "phone" OS, but it has been optimized for tablet use. It doesnt just look scaled up.

Personally want native linux implementation, thanks.
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that is now here I believe. Native ubuntu. Now ICS..... Well that's another story.

So how long until an ICS Port comes along via custom rom?

So ICS just got previewed in Hong Kong as part of the Samsung x Google event.. looks really good... how long does it usually take to get a stable rom of a major firmware release up and running?
For those who missed it:
http://www.engadget.com/2011/10/18/android-4-0-ice-cream-sandwich-now-official/

Stable? Sdk ports won't be stable mate, they might work... But they certainly won't be stable
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ICS requirements are still up in the air, and that will dictate what and how much can be ported over.
In the mean time check out the ICS launcher in the market. Google won't let you download it from the market, but you can still get it from the dev website...
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Can't wait to get ICS running on Galaxy S I9000...
Google confirms Nexus S will get Ice Cream Sandwich -- for real this time (Gingerbread devices, too)
Okay, so we've already seen Ice Cream Sandwich running on the Nexus S, but that was decidedly... unofficial. We've just heard straight from Google's Gabe Cohen that the Nexus S will definitely be getting ICS. In fact, both he and Matias Duarte think most Gingerbread devices will see an upgrade, saying: "Currently in the process for releasing Ice Cream Sandwich for Nexus S. Theoretically should work for any 2.3 device." It's hardly a surprise and there's no specific word on timing just yet, but hopefully it won't take long to move that vanilla Android device up to something with a breaded exterior.
see in Engadget...

I just read @ android central that Google is in the process of getting ICS ready for the Nexus s. Our I9000 would be certainly capable of handling it but without the bootloader,kernel or drivers all we would have is a test rom.
Let's hope Sammy gives us a sweet farewell with one last os upgrade.
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I will expect one (at least beta stage) before Christmas, otherwise I will have a galaxy nexus for my Christmas present.

Won't the next version of cyanogen be built on ICS?

Well in theory we now have confirmation that our hardware can handle ICS no problem. Beyond that, be it through Samsung, a clever dev or Cyanogen, ICS will be hitting the GS. Sooner than most might think.

BlitterTwisted said:
Won't the next version of cyanogen be built on ICS?
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cynagenmod would be sweet if they bake icecream sandwich into to it.
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Nexus Two said:
So ICS just got previewed in Hong Kong as part of the Samsung x Google event.. looks really good... how long does it usually take to get a stable rom of a major firmware release up and running?
For those who missed it:
http://www.engadget.com/2011/10/18/android-4-0-ice-cream-sandwich-now-official/
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ICS 4.0 confirmed for all phones that are Gingerbread compatible
so it'll be just a matter of time

[Q] p990 more than powerfull enough to run Ice Cream Sandwich?

Icecream Sandwich has been all the news in the android community within the last couple of days.
Since our O2x has some pretty high specs, you would think that it would get the update, official or not.
Question is, would it be worth the wait?

Google said: "Currently in the process for releasing Ice Cream Sandwich for Nexus S. Theoretically should work for any 2.3 device.", as you say the P990 has a decent spec so I don't see it being an problem.
I will be using CM9 for sure (if / when etc.) IMO LG will never put ICS on the P990... (they haven't even sent 2.3 to us in Norway....)
Google, hurry up and release the source!!

sleepingsword said:
Google said: "Currently in the process for releasing Ice Cream Sandwich for Nexus S. Theoretically should work for any 2.3 device.", as you say the P990 has a decent spec so I don't see it being an problem.
I will be using CM9 for sure (if / when etc.) LG will never put ICS on the P990... (they haven't even sent 2.3 to us in Norway....)
Google, hurry up and release the source!!
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i just read about that
well yes im with you there. hurry up and release the source
CM9 yes!

sleepingsword said:
Google said: "Currently in the process for releasing Ice Cream Sandwich for Nexus S. Theoretically should work for any 2.3 device.", as you say the P990 has a decent spec so I don't see it being an problem.
I will be using CM9 for sure (if / when etc.) IMO LG will never put ICS on the P990... (they haven't even sent 2.3 to us in Norway....)
Google, hurry up and release the source!!
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It will release on 11-11-11 with the galaxy nexus sells

diegonando22 said:
It will release on 11-11-11 with the galaxy nexus sells
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Thanks for the heads up.
A date added to my callender
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