Techies- what is Ice Cream Sandwich?

[Bernadine]

I'm debating droid vs. iphone, leaning towards droid, and I keep reading about this thing. I looked it up, but it really doesn't seem like a big deal that the droids don't have it yet. Does it matter?

[alzi]

I have no clue what you are talking about but now I want ice cream for lunch.

[feelicksthekat]

It's just the android operating system, they're all named after desserts.

[Bernadine]

The droid also runs on gingerbread something.

I think I could also run on ice cream sandwiches and gingerbread, lol.

[feelicksthekat]

Personally I would stay away from the Iphone but to each there own.

[EllieArroway]

The different Android versions are named after foods & in alphabetical order. Gingerbread was the last phone version, as honeycomb was tablet only. ICS brings the two together. So basically, if you buy a phone that is running Gingerbread or a tablet running Honeycomb you're getting 2010/11 versions whereas Ice Cream Sandwich is the 2011/12 version.

[LLL]

This post has me craving ice cream. I wonder what flavor my droid is?

[PinkSquirrel]

I guess I know what I'm having for lunch.

[KKD]

I have a droid and had no idea about any of this, but I love my droid 3. I need a keyboard, yo.

[DirtyMartini]

May 23, 2012 10:08:28 GMT -5 alzi said:

I have no clue what you are talking about but now I want ice cream for lunch.

Me too

[rhiannon]

Now I want a neapolitan ice cream sandwich. Yum.

[CurlyQ284]

May 23, 2012 10:16:13 GMT -5 EllieArroway said:

The different Android versions are named after foods & in alphabetical order. Gingerbread was the last phone version, as honeycomb was tablet only. ICS brings the two together. So basically, if you buy a phone that is running Gingerbread or a tablet running Honeycomb you're getting
2010/11 versions whereas Ice Cream Sandwich is the 2011/12 version.

This. Ice Cream Sandwich is the newest version of the operating system.

[interro]

Yep, it's an OS - I believe it's the newest version available (although there are always ROMs coming out for phones if you know a techie person who can root your phone and flash a new ROM on ... but I don't recommend it unless they really know what they're doing). Mr. Bang is big into Android development and stuff at work so I'm always hearing about new versions of phone OS.