Ice Cream Sandwich: Google, Samsung to show off new Android this week

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Google and Samsung are set to unveil Ice Cream Sandwich, the next version of Android, at an event Wednesday in Hong Kong. The next operating system — likely to be Android 4.0 — will be a combination of Android’s smartphone system Gingerbread and its tablet-based Honeycomb. The new system is expected to launch alongside a handset that bloggers are calling the Nexus Prime or the Galaxy Nexus. Speculation from tech bloggers indicates that the phone will have a 4.65-inch screen, will be LTE-enabled and will sport on-screen software buttons instead of the physical buttons that grace the bottoms of all Android phones right now.

The new system is expected to build off of the feel that Google has already achieved with Honeycomb, the tablet version of its operating system, and cut down on the fragmentation. The update will bring some features of Honeycomb, such as the user interface and multitasking features, to smartphones.

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