With Ice Cream Sandwich, the next version of Android, Google’s operating system will run on all types of mobile devices including smartphones and regular phones tablets.La next version of Android, codenamed Ice Cream Sandwich and will be available in the last quarter, will address all types of mobile devices, whether smartphones or tablets. Ice Cream Sandwich will offer new features and APIs designed to automatically reconfigure applications on various mobile devices, said yesterday the company responsible for the developer conference Google I / O .
Ice Cream Sandwich While arrives, prepares for this summer Google Android 3.1, an update of Honeycomb designed specifically for tablets. Its improvements include admission to the USB tablets for developers to create applications for the Google TV . Google has also announced that Android Market will feature online and rent movies to watch on the devices. For a price of U.S. $ 1.99, users have 30 days to watch rented movies.
Those responsible for further claimed that Google has launched a private beta of a music service called Music Beta cloud, now available by invitation only to U.S. users. This tool offers a music management application, allowing users to import content from iTunes, including playlists. With Instant Mix can also create playlists instantly according to various criteria, including gender issues, for example. Music Beta is free during its beta phase and has a capacity of 20,000 songs.
According to a spokesman for Google Android group, more than 100 million Android devices worldwide have been activated and there are over 450,000 developers who have created 200,000 Android applications. End users have installed Android applications 4,500 million, a figure of which 1,000 million were downloaded in the past two months. There are also 310 different Android devices available in 110 countries and over 400,000 are active daily.
