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I am a big fan of the "Nexus" brand myself, it feels like Google's version of the iPhone, in that there is no carrier bloatware, or brand name UI's, just the "pure" Android OS.
I have owned the Nexus-One, and now the Nexus-S, and liked both these phones a lot. Before that I had an iPhone3G, it was cool when it first came out, but now I just feel the iOS is dated, and not up to date with Android or WinMo7.
Just curious as to what the next "nexus" phone will be, and when it's due out ? I heard rumors it will be an HTC made phone, called the Nexus-Two, running the next generation Snapdragon processor, that is dual core 1.2ghz. Not sure if it will be a 2.4 Honeycomb phone, or the 3.0 Ice cream ?
It will probably be a tablet with honeycomb on it.
we just got the second incarnation can we not talk about this now
All i know is that people are going to ***** cuz it doesnt have NFC *rolls eyes*
That brings up another question too, what are approx release dates for Honeycomb and Ice cream ?
I think Honeycomb is the 2.4 # ? And is that the one where the developers have been bragging will bring the MAJOR revisions to the UI, and really be a big leap for Android, not just the little changes from like 2.2 Froyo to 2.3 Gingerbread, but a huge leap forward ? Plus be the first release that is made for dual core ?
Then not sure what Ice Cream 3.0 is, if Honeycomb brings the major UI changes.
My assumption is that HTC will regain access to AMOLED and Google will return to them. And the Tegra platform is looking to be the most mainstream next year, they even announced Tegra 3
Nexus 2, Nexus 3, Nexus X, Nexus G, whatever
Zorachus said:
That brings up another question too, what are approx release dates for Honeycomb and Ice cream ?
I think Honeycomb is the 2.4 # ? And is that the one where the developers have been bragging will bring the MAJOR revisions to the UI, and really be a big leap for Android, not just the little changes from like 2.2 Froyo to 2.3 Gingerbread, but a huge leap forward ? Plus be the first release that is made for dual core ?
Then not sure what Ice Cream 3.0 is, if Honeycomb brings the major UI changes.
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It's most likely that Honeycomb is 3.0 as it will be a massive jump for tablets and phones. the 2.4 rumor was just a random tipster from androidandme.com which has no credibility at all.
But we don't know until Google officially announces it.
Thanks for the info Yeah I heard "Honeycomb" comes out on the next gen tablets due out in Feb, and then will be brought to the phones in like May or so, to be released before iPhone 5.
The spy shots of that 10" Motorola tablet looks pretty sweet.
Motorola Nexus Tab Will be out early 2011 with Honeycomb.
As far as a phone goes? No one knows. And won't know til late 2011.
I think I read something recently where Google said the Nexus brand phones will not just be the annual Christmas release only. But that there will be a "nexus" device launched with every major OS update. And that the next Nexus device will be a Honeycomb tablet. And the next Nexus phone will be running Android 3.0 "ice cream"
Guess time will tell...for now I am very happy with my Nexus-S
Well it usually takes a year for them to release such a large incremental update.
slateac said:
My assumption is that HTC will regain access to AMOLED and Google will return to them. And the Tegra platform is looking to be the most mainstream next year, they even announced Tegra 3
Nexus 2, Nexus 3, Nexus X, Nexus G, whatever
It's most likely that Honeycomb is 3.0 as it will be a massive jump for tablets and phones. the 2.4 rumor was just a random tipster from androidandme.com which has no credibility at all.
But we don't know until Google officially announces it.
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Gingerbread - 2.3
Honeycomb - 3.0 (for tablets and phones soon)
Ice Cream -3.5
The more important question is, how many desert names can they come up with to apply for the rest of the alphabet? And what happens after Z?
Z = Zingers an American Snack cake... as for after that, it is anyone's guess. Maybe fruit?
Nexus M and Motorola makes it. Just a guess.
I can't wait for cookie dough.
Nexus is chosen from whomever sells the most Android phones. Nothing more.
The next Nexus will be, compared to the specifications, very fast.
It will also lack something people are going to start a couple of thousand threads about.
Androyed said:
The next Nexus will be, compared to the specifications, very fast.
It will also lack something people are going to start a couple of thousand threads about.
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Folks might complain about not having something to complain about, too.
leyvatron said:
Nexus M and Motorola makes it. Just a guess.
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That's my guess as well. I see Google giving everyone a shot at the Nexus brand, in the spirit of openness. Not sure how the names will go, but it won't be held to Samsung/HTC, it'll go to whoever has the best to offer and can provide the best bang-for-buck.
Yeah I'm guessing Moto. Something doesn't feel right about them going back to HTC-- I doubt Google will want any speculation that there is a favored hardware developer. Google is juggling a ton of Android handset makers and will likely do everything to make sure they don't shift to WP7.
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Folks might complain about not having something to complain about, too.
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Seriously, I saw a couple of reviews of the Nexus S which had actually 'NFC isn't very useful yet' as a con! That's just stupid.
On topic: I really hope Sony Ericsson. I would never buy a 'normal' Android phone from SE, because of the drastically changed interface and the Xperia X10 with 2.1 not getting updates anymore, ever. But their phones are soooo sexy. Look at the upcoming Arc! Wow! If they co-operate with Google, the only thing SE will be the master of is the outside of the phone. Google determines the interface, the updates, if dual-core is needed, etc. etc.
So I have been reading the last 6 months about the supposed biggest update for Android ever = Ice Cream Sandwich. I have a few questions.
- What OS # will it be ? 4.0 ?
- What's approx release date ? This fall on the next Nexus device ?
- When will other current phones get Ice Cream ?
- Is it really going to be the mind blowing incredible update they it is ? Completely change Android radically with massive improvements and new ways of doing things ?
There was lots of hype last year before Gingerbread, saying it would be a big update, and change the look of the UI and be totally fresh. But to me its barely any different than Froyo.
Anything else ?
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wow, surprised that 71 people have viewed this thread, but none of them have a responded ?
I thought this site was for [H]ard Geeks only ? I am sure one of you knows something more in detail about the next big Android update ?
Ice Cream Sandwich will be Android 4.0.
It will bring a Honeycomb-style UI to ALL android devices - no more phone vs tablet OSes. This also means no more hardware buttons - they're going to be onscreen like Honeycomb.
The first 4.0 Device is expected to be the Nexus Prime, a most-likely Samsung phone with a 4.3ish" screen to be released in the fall of this year.
Some (possibly many) Honeycomb and Gingerbread devices will be upgraded to ICS.
That answer your question?
Most people are as clueless as you are. Not much info is known except it's supposed to be basically GB and HC merged for use on phones and the new Nexus one will be the first to start it off supposedly sometime towards the end of the year.
mtmerrick said:
Ice Cream Sandwich will be Android 4.0.
It will bring a Honeycomb-style UI to ALL android devices - no more phone vs tablet OSes. This also means no more hardware buttons - they're going to be onscreen like Honeycomb.
The first 4.0 Device is expected to be the Nexus Prime, a most-likely Samsung phone with a 4.3ish" screen to be released in the fall of this year.
Some (possibly many) Honeycomb and Gingerbread devices will be upgraded to ICS.
That answer your question?
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i hope that there won't be onscreen buttons, i hope there will be gestures..
swiping with two fingers down for home or something. so we dont loose any screen size for the buttons, on screen or not, they waste space on the screen
or maybe something like Zmooth in the market, where you got a small area to make gestures to simulate the buttons
i rly rly hope that they will implement something like this, and not just onscreen buttons..
So the Nexus-Prime will be the debut device for Android 4.0 Ice Cream.
If it is made by Samsung, curious how much better spec'd the Prime will be over the upcoming Galaxy S2 + ?
And I heard a rumor that Google wants to release this new Nexus earlier than the normal Christmas time, but try and compete with iPhone5 with an October launch ? Do you realistically see that happening ?
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Zorachus said:
So the Nexus-Prime will be the debut device for Android 4.0 Ice Cream.
If it is made by Samsung, curious how much better spec'd the Prime will be over the upcoming Galaxy S2 + ?
And I heard a rumor that Google wants to release this new Nexus earlier than the normal Christmas time, but try and compete with iPhone5 with an October launch ? Do you realistically see that happening ?
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This is a likely idea if I were Google.
really lookin forward to this. it looks the business.
I waiting for it
I hope at least most popular devices like SGS will get update, maybe xda-forum will not disappoint
Zorachus said:
So the Nexus-Prime will be the debut device for Android 4.0 Ice Cream.
If it is made by Samsung, curious how much better spec'd the Prime will be over the upcoming Galaxy S2 + ?
And I heard a rumor that Google wants to release this new Nexus earlier than the normal Christmas time, but try and compete with iPhone5 with an October launch ? Do you realistically see that happening ?
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i definitely hope it will be released around the iphone5 time..
and hey, the nexus one was the better twin of the htc desire, the nexus S is the better twin of the galaxy S. why shouldnt the nexus prime be the better twin of the galaxy SII+?^^
I'm reading some stuff about ICS and i think that this release it will have the following specs optimized:
-Jit
-A new UI that fits on smartphones and tabblets,
-An optimized kernel
-A new way of interatcion with market and the other produtcts of google.
Will it support duel-core smartphones..? And if so, anyone knows how it will do it?
hope we'll get it soon
i wait it so long
One answer to all the questions you asked, no one knows
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Google has not given any information about ICS. Guess they will hold an event to give all ins and outs just like they did with Honeycomb. Rumours are by the way that there are multiple ICS devices coming out at the same time in fall/winter. (LG, Samsung, HTC, Motorola, Sony)
I hope that the on-screen buttons are not a design requirement for devices running ICS. It would be frustrating to not be able to get CM8 on my Tbolt.
I hadn't heard about the hardware buttons being gone, that's a shame...would it be the soft touch screened like I have on my DInc (which I wouldn't classify as hardware like say, on the Droid X) or just button screens drawn in the actual viewed screen?
So the Dual-core processor isn't a minimum hardware requirement .. thank god !
So, what is all the hype over the iphone about?
Apart from the app store and the retina display, what does it have over say an orange san francisco/ZTE Blade
Perhaps i am missing something but to me it seems more like a fashion accessory than a phone
Anyway, hopefully someone can clear this up for me
Thanks
RDS
In before the flame war.
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In before the flame war.
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Lol i dont mean offence to anyone, this is an honest question
RDS
I don't think the iphone is like a magical device from outer space, the problem is that there is no real competitor when it comes to user experience. So all the hype is mostly pointed toward the iphone since the other phones fail.
Ex iPhone: Your neighbor downloads an app, he recommends it to you. You download it and the app runs flawlessly on your phone and you really enjoyed it.
Ex Android: Your neighbor downloads an app, he recommends it to you. You download it and the app freezes your phone and you have to reboot every time you try to run the app and you get really frustrated.
I own an android phone and I enjoyed it, but I've been through the waters of android fragmentation and is not a good experience! My next phone is a WP7.
What I'm trying to say is that I think all the hype is because of the excellent user experience on the iPhone.
i suppose this makes sense as with iOS, everything works straight out of the box whereas that is not really possible with Android as it is designed to work with so many different devices rather than the three aplle ones which are very similar anyway
Thanks
RDS
I believe its just a Hype.
Dont think they are better or wors than a regulair smartphone.
Alexander243 said:
I don't think the iphone is like a magical device from outer space, the problem is that there is no real competitor when it comes to user experience. So all the hype is mostly pointed toward the iphone since the other phones fail.
Ex iPhone: Your neighbor downloads an app, he recommends it to you. You download it and the app runs flawlessly on your phone and you really enjoyed it.
Ex Android: Your neighbor downloads an app, he recommends it to you. You download it and the app freezes your phone and you have to reboot every time you try to run the app and you get really frustrated.
I own an android phone and I enjoyed it, but I've been through the waters of android fragmentation and is not a good experience! My next phone is a WP7.
What I'm trying to say is that I think all the hype is because of the excellent user experience on the iPhone.
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i guess this is where ice cream sandwich comes in. in the words of gizmodo:
The next Android phone version Ice Cream Sandwich has one clear motive: to put a stop to having dozens (ok, under ten) different versions of Android on devices. Yes, fragmentation. Not just for phones, it's Google's "most ambitious" update yet.
sweetnsour said:
i guess this is where ice cream sandwich comes in. in the words of gizmodo:
The next Android phone version Ice Cream Sandwich has one clear motive: to put a stop to having dozens (ok, under ten) different versions of Android on devices. Yes, fragmentation. Not just for phones, it's Google's "most ambitious" update yet.
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I really hope Ice Cream Sandwich puts a stop to fragmentation, but until now I stick to the present.
I can't wait to see how Ice Cream Sandwich will do in the market. Hopefully it will be the one OS to rule them all (Android Phones)
Hellot there i just received a new tablet for christmas abd i wanted to learn some new things.
First oglf all i have to admit it that i am new to this android scene. I am a fan of apple but wheb it comes to tablets i guess abdroid has an advantage. whatever this is not the purpose of my message.
What i wabted to know is this: I received an Le Pan tc 970 but i saw they got the new Le Pan 2ut with the honeycomb support . My question is: is it worth rerurning this current tablet to buy the new one just because it has a new firmware on it? Or the hobeycomb isnt that much of a deal abd I should keep this one? Any advantages to buy the ther one in comparasion to this ine except it is new? Does it have much more feature than 2.2?
If not I know abdroid is the world of customizations... but i dont seem to get it. Do i need to root my system in order to makee tose customizatiobs available? I didnt ser that much themes for this tablet... also it doesbt even have its own section... Is it because the tablet isnt that popular?
Finally could i have some few threads to get me started? I kniw pretty much abiut apple... but Andriid is completly new to me!
Thanks! And sorry for all of the mistakes... The keyboard makes my mind go nuts... it is too big!
Honeycomb (Android 3.0) is newer version than froyo (2.2).
If you can get one with Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0) then it is worth returning it
and get a new one.
Most of the tablets are running Froyo or Gingerbread (Android 2.3) .
Honeycomb is closed source, google has not released its software to public.
All other versions as of now are open source AOSP (Android Open Source Platform)
ask them whether it can be upgraded to ICS (4.0)
Well honeycomb is kinda better for tablets since it has a tablet ui but now since they released ics you should check if your tablet is getting the ics update which has a bunch of new features and if it doesn't i think you should get one with the new os.
Right! Look for ics update. It is much better
I don'T think there are many tables with ICS...? Am I wrong? And what about a starter guide?
Hello everybody, this is the story about why i switched back to Android from IOS. Hope you enjoy!
When i first got in to Smartphones i bought a HTC Tattoo, and it was a very good device to begin with. It had Android Version 1.6, and that was fine to me in some time, but then i found out that Google had released Android Version 2.1 and even 2.3 (Gingerbread) and i got a little bit disapointed with my phone, i waited for weeks for my device to get updated but it never did..... So i saved up for a new phone with a newer version of Android so i bought the Sony Ericsson Xperia X8 (Yeah. i know it was a crappy device, but i didnt know much about phones back then...) and it had Android Version 2.1 (Froyo) and i was really happy a long time, but at some point I was getting bored, so i wanted a new version of android to try some new things but that never happend either.... besides that the Xperia X8 was really laggy all the time and had a 600mhz procceser inside and couldnt run the most basic games..... so i was getting really angry on Android and bought a IPhone 4S because i was tired of all the apps and games i couldnt run on my old phone and never gotten updates Android updates. so i used the IPhone about a year and i was really happy, and i could run all the apps i wanted to try, and i got 2 major updates, but one day i was on Youtube and i saw the way Android has evolved and has gotten Project butter so it was alot smoother and you could do anything you want with it when you rooted it, even ahole new rom. Then i looked at my IPhone 4S and I felt very limited with an IPhone.
so i sold my IPhone a bought a brand new LG Nexus 4, and i am REALLY happy i did it, because now Android is smooth and powerful enough to handle intensive apps and because it´s a Nexus device i get all the new updates straight from google.
and i will never buy a IPhone again because it gives me a limit so i can´t do the things i want to do.
It's somthing clear and known
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You made a great decision to get on Android again :good: Nowadays if you want to be happy from your Android you need to have a powerful high-end device otherwise some of the old ones sooner or later get really slow and crappy and get on your nerves like my Galaxy i9000 which I really want to change. :
As long as you have a mid to high end device android runs circles around ios
I agree. It took a while for Android devices and the OS to catch up but catch up they did and now Android is in the lead imo.
On average though, the quality of the average Android app is lower than that IOS apps but that's because the Google gatekeepers aren't as strict, which I believe is a good thing anyway.
More and more I'm thinking IOS is almost dead now. Unless they revolutionize it I would give it another year
Apple has too close an ecosystem, they need to open up a little bit. Otherwise they may stagnate.
japgolly said:
I agree. It took a while for Android devices and the OS to catch up but catch up they did and now Android is in the lead imo.
On average though, the quality of the average Android app is lower than that IOS apps but that's because the Google gatekeepers aren't as strict, which I believe is a good thing anyway.
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What? Android apps are just as good or better than iOS apps.
Quality over quantity and android has the former and enough of the latter.
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