When Nexus S comes out, it made quite a ‘huha’ all over the place. It’s got Gingerbread, it’s got NFC, fake concave screen, and it’s a ‘Google Experience’. But fast forward just about two months later, and the Nexus S has already lost its uniqueness.
During CES, Viewsonic mentioned that their ViewPad 4 handset will be in the market in mid-June with Android 2.2 but now it seemed that the handset is getting lots of love in the lab. Pocket-lint is reporting that it’s heard from a source at Viewsonic who says the ViewPad 4 is now set to launch in April… with Android 2.4. According to the source, however, that update will not be dubbed “Ice Cream” as some had suspected, but will instead simply still be called Gingerbread.
No changes in name, and still we only see one Nexus S on the market with Gingerbread. What’s this all about? Will Android 2.4 give the much awaited support for dual-core processors which will give Android a huge boost in speed? I still prefer Google to improve Android’s multitasking and memory management.