Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Google announces Ice Cream Sandwich for Q4 2011, for smartphones and tablets alike

"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.

Android Ice Cream Sandwich

Developing... see our liveblog of Google's I/O 2011 keynote for the very latest.