Google boss Eric Schmidt has told assembled mobile fanatics at MWC 2011 that Android Gingerbread and Honeycomb will be combined into one OS, which will work across both smartphones and tablets. Want to know when this next-gen version of the Big G’s OS is due to land and what it’ll be called? Jump in and we’ll reveal all.
In a keynote address at Mobile World Congress, Schmidt addressed the issue of Android fragmentation head on, saying, “We’ve got an OS for phones called ‘Gingerbread’ and one for tablets called ‘Honeycomb’. G and H. You can imagine that the next will begin with I and will be named after a dessert, and it will unite them.”
It’s already been widely reported that Google will slap the next version of Android with the name Ice Cream. But a combined edition wasn’t expected, with Ice Cream believed to take on some of Honeycomb’s smarts while the tablet OS was left to do its own thing.
Schmidt also said that Google was working on a six monthly release cycle for Android updates, which should go a long way to addressing the fragmentation concerns of avid mobile watchers.
Via The Guardian
