Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Eric Schmidt: Ice Cream Will Finally Merge Android Gingerbread and Honeycomb

Today, Android smartphones run one operating system, while some tablets run a different version known as Honeycomb. If you wonder whether a common version is coming, you would likely be correct, allowing Android to build a more-integrated ecosystem that could have Android smartphones and tablets working together, sharing applications more elegantly and possibly, in some implementations, raising new issues about the "one device" a user finds most useful to carry around.

"We have OS called gingerbread for phones, we have an OS being previewed now for tablets called Honeycomb," notes Google CEO Eric Schmidt. "The two of them, you can imagine the follow up will start with an I, be named after dessert, and will combine these two.”

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