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According to a leak to Pocket-Now, Google will be pushing out an update to the Android platform in April. This will be version 2.4, but will not be the rumored Ice Cream release. Rather, this will be a second iteration of Gingerbread. It is the same situation that we saw last year with Android 2.0 and 2.1 both being branches of Éclair. Apparently, this update will be all about dual-core support.
Apps that are being made for Android 3.0 Honeycomb are designed to work on dual core processors, Gingerbread, as it stands, does not have the ability to run those apps. Android 2.4 would allow those dual-core apps to be run on phones with single-core processors. This pending release may be why the Nexus S remains the only phone running Gingerbread. Manufacturers are waiting for the new version of Gingerbread to start porting it.
The tipster also said that Viewsonic may be the first out of the gate with a phone running 2.4 out of the box. This is expected to be the ViewPad 4, a 4.1-inch device with 720p video recording. Do you think this refinement of Gingerbread is a good move for Google, or is it just going to confuse consumers?
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win7fanboi
February 08, 2011 at 10:45am
Google, what happened to 'Do no evil' ...? changed it to 'Greed is good' ?
Nexus One owner here... getting tired of Googles antics. Is there a single effing company that does suck ass?
