I was thinking about a pun about it being for grown-ups, but that might have been interpreted as me saying Android is all grown up. And I haven’t decided on that yet
After a slight delay Android version 4.0, code name Ice Cream Sandwich has now been launched. This is the next major iteration of the operating system, and this time it should work both on tablets and regular phone form factors. As the number indicates it is not a mix of the 2.x and 3.x branch, but the next branch. All APIs and features from 3.x is included in 4.0.
The main focus of the release is on user interface improvements, as well as general updates of the apps and polishing the OS further. You can find screenshots all over the Internet of course of this.
As usual I don’t care about these things. Well, of course, as a user of devices I care about the interface, but this blog does not concern itself with such matters. A perhaps important feature for people reading this blog is that since Honeycomb features are supported this means that you now get full device encryption on the phone devices and just not the tablets.
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A couple of paragraphs of what I have found so far.
