Eric Schmidt: Honeycomb Ice Cream and Gingerbread join

Eric Schmidt, on behalf of Google has been talking a bit about Android in Barcelona, as is customary in these interventions, the book introduces the story: 350,000 phones were activated each day, which would be more than 127 million handsets a year .

Following interesting numbers, these calls are 170 different models from 27 manufacturers associated with 169 different operators in 69 countries. With respect to applications, has exceeded the barrier of 150,000 units, three times more than just 9 months, growth is important.

"Android is the Fastest growing mobile platform in the world,"

Ending with the statistics, Eric went on to talk about other things more tangible as a future video editing application for Honeycomb, called Movie Studio. The idea is simple, get results similar to those we can get on a PC from a tablet, and a direct connection to YouTube.


Ice Cream, joining two paths

Very interesting were the statements about the future of Android versions, giving a little light on this issue so confusing. While Android 3.0 is intended for tablets, it is not clear how they will get the news to Smarpthones.

"We Have Called Gingerbread OS for phones, We Have An OS Being Called Previewed tablets now for Honeycomb. CAN you imagine the follow up will start with an I, be named after dessert, and will combine These Two. "

Schmidt explained that the next version of Android, which begins with "I", "Ice Cream?, Combine Gingerbread (2.3 and 2.4) with Honeycomb, in one version. So you better hope we forget phone Honeycomb, Ice Cream and wait as the most significant update.

Ice Cream could be labeled as Android 3.1, and we expect significant improvements in the interface for Smartphones, in line with what we found Honeycomb.

About the mysterious Android 2.4 will support informed us that for applications that have been created to Honeycomb, is actually transparent to users, and we could say that is the way that developers can make applications that run on Honeycomby later in Ice Cream .

Upgrade cycles are engaged in a six-month intervals, according to Schmidt, but the reality is that it is a fact that served us well in practice, since each terminal arrives, if it comes, when many players decide .

If you still have some questions about the future of Android, we emplaced the next May, when celebrating the premier event for developers, although it has become an event of interest, we talk about Google I / O.

Google behind Nokia

At the time, as we have had occasion to know, Google tried to seduce Nokia to use Android, but the end of the story already know, Microsoft was more convincing.

Leaving the world a little Android, Schmidt reminded us last week's news, is that smartphones have overtaken PCs in sales, also informed us that Chrome has more than 120 million active users, and 35 hours of video are uploaded every minute to YouTube.