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hey guys it's Joe the Android guy and I'm a little bit concerned about ice cream sandwich to be frank we should be seeing a lot more ice cream sandwich devices out there than we are and there's also some other stuff that's playing into it that's got me well just a little bit concerned let's go find out why in this week's edition of the android guy weekly so let's jump into some history android was doing pretty good with smartphones and they came up from version 1.5 1.6 and we got all the way up to version two point i was track but it was gingerbread and gingerbread was doing good in fact Froyo and gingerbread were pretty good operating systems for smartphones where Google got into some trouble was when they started doing well they didn't start doing tablets but other people did and they were using these smartphone operating systems that just really couldn't handle it they weren't designed for it and they didn't work all that well now since then time has progressed and there are actually some pretty decent Android tablets out there running either Froyo or gingerbread rather than a tablet centric operating system now what do I mean by tablet centric well Google wanted some time so that they could recoup they could just kind of go all the way back to to home base and figure out how they needed to make this work on tablets and honeycomb was what they came up with honeycomb like we'd mentioned in previous episodes it's kind of the necessary evil it had to be done to kind of push the platform forward and there were a lot of changes an awful lot of changes some of them not that Pleasant very similar to windows vista compared to windows 7 vista had to be done and it helped usher in windows 7 well the same thing honeycomb had to be done to usher in Ice Cream Sandwich how ice cream sandwich is supposed to be the unifying operating system that brings together tablets and phones and theoretically TVs as well though we haven't seen that yet Google TV just got updated with honeycomb rather than ice cream sandwich just kind of odd and interesting but it's probably more about timelines than anything else so why am i concerned about ice cream sandwich I love it I've got it on my motorola xoom it works so much nicer then well honey comb did on it and let's face it that was the honeycomb launch device of all the tablets out there the zoom should be the one that runs honeycomb the best and it's not that bad I really can't say that with a straight face cuz okay it was bad for a tablet I liked it but compared to what ice cream sandwiches on the same device Wow night and day well I've also got a Galaxy Nexus in the Galaxy Nexus was the launch device for ice cream sandwich and it runs it great it runs it just fine I love it in fact it's hard for me to go back to say my galaxy tab 77 that's running honeycomb just because it's such a step back running some of the other phones that I have in my house gingerbread just seems so old it seems so clergy compared to ice cream sandwich well and a lot of the major manufacturers out there said not a problem we're going to update our most recent phones to run Ice Cream Sandwich we've seen some release date sins but other than a few tablets maybe one or two smartphones we really haven't seen much happening as far as updating those phones to run Ice Cream Sandwich that may or may not be too concerning I thought we'd see a more rapid adoption than what we've seen but what's starting to concern me is we're seeing brand-new phones like the motorola droid for that we just reviewed it's a great phone it's got to slide out keyboard which well that's I hold that near and dear to my heart because I started out with a g1 and I went on to a g2 and I just kind of like devices that have physical keyboards even though that Galaxy Nexus I to just fine with and I kind of like having the smaller phone but i really like phones with keyboards on them well except this is a brand new flagship device and it doesn't have ice cream sandwich on it which was released back in November we're talking what three months now that's an awful long time and we still don't have that a lot of the other devices smartphones especially aren't coming out with Gingerbread not ice cream sandwich one of the tablets the tablets are coming along with ice cream sandwich not quite as rapidly as I would have expected there either which kind of makes me think you know what's wrong with ice cream sandwich is it really that much bigger so that much more difficult to develop for what's wrong with it is there something wrong with it that led me to something relatively concerning Galaxy Nexus again it's the flagship device you remember back when we announced the the nexus one way back when almost immediately after we released that video on you know the unboxing of that phone and we were showing how awesome it was back then we showed off the accessories the desktop dock with its pogo pins the car dock with its pogo pins oh man this was great it was kind of frustrating because the accessories took a month or so to come out after the phone came out but that was it now we're on another flagship device of the Galaxy Nexus and where the accessories well we've got an announcement or we had an announcement just recently that hey they're starting to roll out starting to roll out three months after the release of the flagship device whoa what's going on here in fact I've had on order to car docs from the first day that they showed up over at expanses that's been a long time that I've had that order open and they're still not here in fact they were supposed to be released to the most recent update said februari 15th you betcha so I showed up you know februari 14th not a problem the date was still the same the next day februari 15th I went and what on earth now they're delayed till februari 28th why is this well expanses allegedly will throw that word around a lot talk to their supplier who allegedly reported that Samsung is having a problem with them or more specifically Samsung's having a problem with some of the stuff Google did in Ice Cream Sandwich and the docs aren't working right does that mean if you're going to run this doc you've got to have a software update to your phone maybe like a four-point-oh point what are we up to now 5 yeah is something wrong with ice cream sandwich is that like developers you know the the big developers Samsung HTC all those folks is that why they're not adopting ice cream sandwich in their new phones I hope not I really hope not or is it just because it takes six to eight months to get a device from specification to release to qualify it for well the major carriers for one but also for general release so they don't tarnish the name brand of HTC or of Samsung or some of the others is that it does it really take that long did it take that long with Gingerbread and with Froyo or is this something where it's taking longer with ice cream sandwich and if it is taking longer with ice cream sandwich is the next version going to be faster to market because they've already overcome the hurdles that were introduced with honeycomb and ice cream sandwich I hope so and then we've got jelly bean jelly bean which we kind of expected would be a little bit further out than well june or july of this year we're going from a release date sure the release date was november but now we're fast forwarding to now and it's just februari granted near the end and we've got jelly bean coming out in just a couple more months okay first of all I hope this jelly bean announcement in a couple months means that we're probably maybe going to get a launch device then and it'll be another couple months before we see any actual real devices kind of like last time and if so that's probably okay or is jelly bean Google going back to the drawing board and kind of in panic mode coming out with a fixed operating system that has all these problems taken care of and then we'll be able to see more rapid development and more rapid releases of the Android operating system for our tablets or phones and maybe even our TVs I don't know but putting all the pictures together all the pieces together the picture that I'm seeing is I think there might be something wrong with ice cream sandwich that's what it looks like from my perspective but now i'm interested in your perspective what do you think do you think this is something that's just growing pains getting from a less mature gingerbread and into a more mature honeycomb Ice Cream Sandwich and that's why it's taking so long or is it really that it just takes six to eight months to get a device from spec to market and we're just right now getting rid of all of the other you know gingerbread and before phones that that were already kind of in the queue waiting for release or is it something else let us know in the comments down below share your thoughts and in the past videos we've done oh my goodness guys you're just freaking amazing at all the comments and the perspectives that you're bringing to this in fact some of the comments that you've mentioned before especially in the honeycomb the necessary evil the video that we did way back then a lot of that was kind of formative for this video and kind of got the juices flowing so everyone who participated in that conversation thank you so much it's just amazing what can happen when a whole bunch of diverse people like you and I get together and think freely and put all of our thoughts into this and and just come up with ideas and maybe even some conspiracy theories they're always fun right that may or may not turn out to be true in this one I hope it's not true and I hope it's just you know Google hurrying and pushing out a new version of the operating system and maybe the whole accessory thing for the Galaxy Nexus was all kind of blown out of proportion we can hope but keep the conversation going use the comments down below and of course big thumbs up if you 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