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Google held a conference today at Moscone Center in San Francisco, California, revealing statistics and news on their popular mobile operating system, Android. The latest figures show that Android has hit a total of 100 million activations as of 2011, with the Android Market hitting 4.5 billion downloads. But to Android fans around the globe, the most significant news is definitely in the form that Google also revealed its two latest forms of Android today: Ice Cream Sandwich for mobile phones, and Honeycomb 3.1 for tablets.
Ice Cream Sandwich, said to be planned to hit in Q4 2011, will be bringing over the holographic UI and fancier widgets from Honeycomb 3.0, amongst other new features. Google has stated that Ice Cream Sandwich is their "most ambitious release [of Android] to date", with their sightlines set on creating "one OS that runs on anything".
As for Honeycomb 3.1, users of the Motorola Xoom on Verizon in the USA will be happy to know they can get the latest update right now. Honeycomb 3.1 adds USB host support for Android, allowing users to connect many devices to their Android tablet at one time. The other new features are changes to the UI. The widgets can now be customized to stretch vertically or horizontally any way that developers choose. There will also be new apps included, such as Movie Studio for video editing, new Movies and Books apps, and a faster Internet browser. Honeycomb 3.1 will also be heading to Google TV.
And possibly the best news of all is that Google revealed its plans to get regular updates for their Android OS across most of the devices. It was revealed that Google had meetings with cell phone manufacturers and carriers to set up "a strict system of how soon after the release of a new version of Android will handsets be updated". Cell phone manufacturers are said to now be required to update all their devices to the latest version of Android within the period of 18 months after their device hit the market, as long as the hardware supports it. This list includes manufacturing giants Sony Ericsson, Samsung, HTC, LG, and Motorola, as well as major carriers from around the world like Verizon, Vodafone, AT&T, and more.[/p]
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Ice Cream Sandwich, said to be planned to hit in Q4 2011, will be bringing over the holographic UI and fancier widgets from Honeycomb 3.0, amongst other new features. Google has stated that Ice Cream Sandwich is their "most ambitious release [of Android] to date", with their sightlines set on creating "one OS that runs on anything".
As for Honeycomb 3.1, users of the Motorola Xoom on Verizon in the USA will be happy to know they can get the latest update right now. Honeycomb 3.1 adds USB host support for Android, allowing users to connect many devices to their Android tablet at one time. The other new features are changes to the UI. The widgets can now be customized to stretch vertically or horizontally any way that developers choose. There will also be new apps included, such as Movie Studio for video editing, new Movies and Books apps, and a faster Internet browser. Honeycomb 3.1 will also be heading to Google TV.
And possibly the best news of all is that Google revealed its plans to get regular updates for their Android OS across most of the devices. It was revealed that Google had meetings with cell phone manufacturers and carriers to set up "a strict system of how soon after the release of a new version of Android will handsets be updated". Cell phone manufacturers are said to now be required to update all their devices to the latest version of Android within the period of 18 months after their device hit the market, as long as the hardware supports it. This list includes manufacturing giants Sony Ericsson, Samsung, HTC, LG, and Motorola, as well as major carriers from around the world like Verizon, Vodafone, AT&T, and more.[/p]
hone = top half of sandwich
