Android Ice Cream combines Honeycomb for tablets and Gingerbread for phones

Google is positioning Android 3.0 Honeycomb as a platform only for tablets, and therefore it was unclear when such updates will appear on the phones. The other day at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, ​​Eric Schmidt shed some light on this question.

Schmidt said that the next version of Android, the name of which will “begin on“ I ”and mean dessert, will combine the current Gingerbread release for phones (2.3 and 2.4) with Honeycomb for tablets (3.0) into a single platform. This means that we will not see Honeycomb on the phones, and Ice Cream will be the next major Android update for phones.

In the Ice Cream version, which will probably get the number 3.1, the interface in the phones will also be improved, as it is improved in the Honeycomb in the tablets.
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Schmidt also noted that Android updates are now being released in a "six-month cycle." Although in fact this means little to users - regardless of the Google development cycle, Android updates don't get to them soon. Google released Android 2.3 Gingerbread in December along with the Nexus S, but this update has not yet reached other devices. Now there is information that Android 2.4 will replace 2.3 in April, it will support Honeycomb applications, and that this version will also be called Gingerbread.