Google's Talking Ice Cream and I can't even get Yogurt!

[heysetty]

Dear Google, Samsung and Verizon,

Thank you for what I consider to be the best phone I have ever owned. However, you are not letting me play in your wonderfully hand crafted world of desserts.

You keep teasing me - gingerbread, honeycomb - and now ice cream. You make me drool over these tasty treats. But you don't pay any attention to how my inner feelings - the way I operate. I am delicate. Antiquated compared to my brethren.

We need to have a serious chat. If you don't at least give me a taste of that yogurt, and ever so soon, we may have to break up. And...gulp...start dating that slut - the iPhone4.

Best,
Heysetty

 

[lornaevo]

Google didn't mention anything about ice cream.

 

[joebob2000]

Google didn't mention anything about ice cream.

Ahem... Google Ice Cream landing in time for the summer - Pocket-lint

I think Aw Jeez guy is going to stop by, too

 

[928SC]

Google didn't mention anything about ice cream.

Here ya go ... Android 2.4 (Ice Cream) to be released this summer? | BGR | Boy Genius Report

 

[Cory Streater]

Dear Google, Samsung and Verizon,

Thank you for what I consider to be the best phone I have ever owned. However, you are not letting me play in your wonderfully hand crafted world of desserts.

You keep teasing me - gingerbread, honeycomb - and now ice cream. You make me drool over these tasty treats. But you don't pay any attention to how my inner feelings - the way I operate. I am delicate. Antiquated compared to my brethren.

We need to have a serious chat. If you don't at least give me a taste of that yogurt, and ever so soon, we may have to break up. And...gulp...start dating that slut - the iPhone4.

Best,
Heysetty

LOL. I think this should be sent to Verizon and Samsung though.

 

[joebob2000]

LOL. I think this should be sent to Verizon and Samsung though.

It needs to be sent to Google. They need to stop whoring out Android to anyone who wants to throw it on a handset and make a quick buck or two on 3g data. To that end, they need to write into the software license a stipulation that ANY hardware used by android must have the source code of the low level drivers committed to the open handset alliances' AOSP repo. Then, with community support, AOSP could rev a phone without the carrier or handset maker needing to bother with it.

Instead, they give Android to anyone who wants it, no questions asked, and its name is being dragged through the mud by lazy, ineffective software teams at the handset makers and wireless carriers. Google should be ashamed of themselves.

 

[DroidDev]

You can have Froyo now. You will just have to install it yourself which isnt hard

 

[voghan]

I thought Google was going to try to slow down these OS upgrades? Releasing a new version every six months doesn't help anyone. It kind of makes them less relevant because so few phones will be spending much time on them. Why would a phone manufacturer want to upgrade my phone to Gingerbread when in four months Ice Cream will be out? They should save their money and do that upgrade instead.

 

[Slayers]

Here ya go ... Android 2.4 (Ice Cream) to be released this summer? | BGR | Boy Genius Report

What I don't understand is if Honeycomb is in between Ginger Bread and Ice Cream why is Honeycomb 3.0 yet Ice Cream is 2.4?

 

[RobUM2011]

What I don't understand is if Honeycomb is in between Ginger Bread and Ice Cream why is Honeycomb 3.0 yet Ice Cream is 2.4?

 

[Johnly]

Google has nothing to do with it, all Sammy and VZW.

 

[icu]

It's Bing's fault and you all know it!

 

[joebob2000]

Honeycomb is likely to be an "android tablet edition". As they announced last year, there is likely to be a complete fork of Android between handsets and "higher capacity devices" with dual cores, huge screens, etc. This allows them to keep the handset footprint small while adding features like barometers and WQSXGA+ resolutions to support tablets and the like.

As to who to blame... The Android brand is Google's property. Sure, they didnt force Samsung or Verizon to neglect updates, but the reason they CAN neglect updates is that Android is a farce of Open Source. We know what kind of cpu, radio, and other hardware is in the Fascinate. If this were the PC world, linux developers could craft drivers and forge entire operating systems out of the ether to run on the hardware at hand. Different components could be easily rolled together to create wonderful new GUIs, applications, and maybe even games (if they get around to it.) Instead this is the phone world, where "open" means "you can run what you want on it as long as you void your warranty". For this reality to come to pass, Google had to give them the green light to take android, close up huge swaths of the source code, and throw it to market. Openness never felt so closed.