Google wants a total of five Nexus smartphones launch on future Android 5.0 operating system. Writes that the U.S. business newspaper The Wall Street Journal based on anonymous sources.
Where the last Nexus smartphones were produced by Samsung, Google Android 5.0 devices by five different manufacturers want to make. The sale of these phones is then picked up by Google, allowing providers as intermediary be excluded.
Owners of Samsung Galaxy S II heated terminals, good news for you: Samsung announces it Samsung Galaxy S II with a tweet that 0ggi night (April 22) will begin to be distributed in Italy the official update to Ice Cream Sandwich.
After Korea, Israel, and England, the longed-for update finally arrives in our beautiful country: the very positive note is the discovery that will take a bite at cookie ice cream virtually all versions of smartphones, both the No Brand as well as branded units from telephone companies.
If you were so far managed to resist the temptation to try the leaked beta of which we also did a review, it’s now finally time to prepare to move to the new Android 4.0: in all likelihood will be updated via Kies, but we will give you more information as soon as we can be certain.
Ice Cream Sandwich – Sony seems to continue along the Sony Ericsson traces of transparency and openness. In a post on the manufacturer’s developer blog on Sony users to make an active choice: either stay at Gingerbread is “very stable with excellent performance,” or update to the more modern Ice Cream Sandwich.
Sony says that Android 4.0 will require more hardware resources and deals with both more RAM and processing power. They also mention a slower communication with the SQL database, which according to Sony may slow down applications. The manufacturer also discusses hardware acceleration as a potential problem. The technique requires that the graphics library is loaded, which in turn makes it possible for even more RAM.
Motorola Webtop – Last year, Motorola surprised friend and foe with the Motorola Atrix. Not only was this unit is very powerful, there was also a second operating system. When your smartphone to a monitor, or specially designed lapdock connects, a Linux desktop (Webtop) opened, complete with example Mozilla Firefox.
A video that surfaced today, late as possible to see the next iteration of Motorola Webtop. It seems however that this next version, along with the Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0) version of system software for the Motorola RAZR will come, just the tablet mode of Android 4.0.
Where Webtop so first a nearly complete Linux environment offered, it seems that Webtop 3.0, such as the version in the movie to see is hot, Webtop nothing else offers the standard environment that we know of Ice Cream Sandwich for tablets . Then you would if your Motorola device from Android 4.0-connects with a screen or on the move lapdock automatically begin to see the tablet layout applications.
Since the launch of Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) in late 2011, finally know the operating system to gain popularity. This is partly the effect of updates that manufacturers bring to smartphones and tablets. From Google released data shows that 2.9 percent of all Android devices currently on Ice Cream Sandwich running. Even though the share still not very high, it turns out to be a drastic increase in comparison with the 0.6 percent, which was measured in January.
With a share of 2.9 percent, Ice Cream Sandwich almost as big as Honeycomb (Android 3.X). This operating system for tablets can be found on 3.3 percent of the Android devices. Android 4.0 is expected here soon over it. Not only have many manufacturers to update to the OS is ready, the system also runs on both smartphones and tablets.
Android 4.0.4 – Although most people still are waiting until they get an upgrade to Android 4.0.3, Google limelight again on the road. Jean-Baptiste Queru, one of the prominent figures of the Android Open Source Project (AOSP), announces that the source code for Android 4.0.4 (build number IMM76D) is put online. The new version brings a few hundred changes compared to Android 4.0.3 with him.
Jean-Baptiste said that the update brings with it a hundred changes, but what major changes he does not know. Hundreds also sounds like much, but obviously not all new features need to be. It will mainly come down to bugfixes. What exactly has changed at this time remains guesswork.
What is nice about Android is that when Google does not work despite criticism increasingly fierce – and always constructive – there is always an enthusiast or a group of hackers to do the job for them. On the taskbar always visible, even in applications, one of the biggest problems for Android tablet now, Google does not seem to want to move and believes that this bar works just as parasite is as it should. Active buttons open a game or bar visible during a movie, it does not bother them, good for them, too bad for us.
Several solutions exist yet and all other OS have found a way to exit full screen: IOS has a button and a touch gesture, QNX and webOS have a swipe upwards to return the application in windowed shelves and even in Chinese Android added function via a button “back” physical. Gesture Control allows you to use roughly speaking all these solutions since the application is a patchwork of all that is done elsewhere. A 4-finger pinch you back to the office, like IOS, a two-finger swipe allows you to display or hide the taskbar.
While Ice Cream Sandwich looks shyly on the market, with even a few devices to date and a potential very large number of update but still only on paper, the rumors continue on the next Android 5.0 called Jelly Bean. Although there are no firm information on this new distribution, according to DigiTimes the presentation and the debut of Android 5.0 will occur in Q3 2012.
If the prediction is correct, and when the certainties are zero, Android 5.0 Jelly beans may come early. Analysts and users expect a new version by the end of 2012, with a hypothetical end of November as the official presentation. An early release would create even more chaos in the already difficult world of Android distributions.
Apple is willing to patents on some Android device makers to license for between 5 and 15 dollars per unit. It is unclear how serious the offer is.
Apple was in negotiations with Samsung and Motorola are prepared a number of patents to license for 5 to 15 dollars per Android device. Press Service reports that Dow Jones based on anonymous sources.
The warring parties have been keeping longer negotiate their mutual patent claims, but was previously Apple’s strategy has to be that Android smartphones are patented techniques and methods over.
Key Lime Pie – As is well known names Google the larger Android version for pastries and desserts. The names are in alphabetical order starting with Android, and so far we have seen the Cupcake, Donut, Eclair, Froyo, Gingerbread, Honeycomb, and now Ice Cream Sandwich.
The general consensus is that the next big androidrelease, maybe version 5 of the platform, will be called Jelly Bean (“jelly bean”). Asus has, among other things used that name in communications with the media and Google had a big bowl of jelly prayers in a backstage area during the Mobile World Congress.
