Webopedia Term of the Day: What is Ice Cream Sandwich?

“Ice Cream Sandwich is the dessert-themed Android codename for
an upcoming version 4.0 update of the open source Android mobile
operating system. Ice Cream is expected to debut by the end of 2011
as Google’s “everywhere” operating system for smartphones, tablets
and other mobile devices.

“With Ice Cream Sandwich Google is expected to unify the
v2.x/v3.x forks of Android development while also adapting the
Android framework and adding new APIs to help put an end to the
issue of Android fragmentation. Ice Cream Sandwich is also expected
to bring many of the tablet-centric Honeycomb’s (Android v3.0)
features to smartphones, including video chat support based on
Google Talk protocols, a new System Bar for global status and
notifications and an Action Bar for application control, tabbed Web
browsing support, an optimized soft keyboard and a new email
interface.”

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