Ice Cream Sandwich

Rumours report that Ice Cream Sandwich is due in late October.

Ice Cream Sandwich
Earlier this month Google’s ex-CEO Eric Schmidt told a crowd in San Francisco that the next version of Android, codenamed Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS), was coming out in October or November. That’s in line with most of the rumors floating around the web and this weekend another insider also suggested ICS would be out by October.

This time the information comes from Notion Ink CEO Rohan Shravan who announced in a company blog post that Google would launch the official ICS update in late October. He goes on to make a bold prediction and reports that Notion Ink’s Adam tablet will receive an update to ICS by November.

Rohan also says that Texas Instruments’ OMAP4 is the lead platform for ICS, which we pretty much confirmed back in August.

It is worth noting Rohan’s statements because he correctly predicted the launch date of Gingerbread (Android 2.3) late last year. Rohan said Gingerbread would be announced on December 6th 2010 and that’s exactly what happened.

The guys at PhoneArena reached out to Rohan for more information and he replied that Notion Ink is ”not on the list of official ICS” launch partners, but they had been working on the update with their ”community friends” for a long time and that’s why they expected to update their tablet so soon.

If we look back at last year, Google announced Gingerbread and the Nexus S on Dec. 6th and then the device went on sale just ten days later on Dec. 16th. The latest Nexus Prime rumors are suggesting a release around November 3rd, which is within ten days of a late October announcement.

Hopefully Google sticks with their release schedule and gets the Nexus Prime with Ice Cream Sandwich out on time. I’m ready to go wait in line at Best Buy and pick up my new phone.

When do you think Google will launch their next Nexus?