14 DAY TRIAL // Mountain View-based Internet giant Google is reportedly gearing up for the release of the next version of their mobile Android operating system, which would sport the codename of Honeycomb, and which is said to arrive on shelves with version 2.4 attached to it.
Up until now, this Android flavor was said to be Android 3.0 Honeycomb, and not 2.4, but things might be otherwise, it seems.
In all fairness, we should note that this is not the first time the Android 2.4 version number emerged next to the Honeycomb name.
Of course, other version numbers were there as well, starting with 4.0 many months ago, along with 3.5 at the time when Gingerbread was expected to be launched as Android 3.0.
The first Honeycomb-based tablet PCs are expected to make an official appearance no later than this week, during the Consumer Electronics Show that would kick off on January 6th in Las Vegas.
This means that more info on the new mobile operating system flavor might appear at that time, following the showcase of a Motorola tablet PC based on this OS iteration back in November last year.
Apparently, the Android 2.4 version appeared quite a few times lately as the OS version powering devices that access various websites around the Internet, a recent article on pocketnow reads.
Honeycomb is expected to arrive with support for tablet-friendly interfaces, and with few other mind-blowing enhancements, and it would make sense that Google chose only a minor version change, and not a jump to a new number.
However, since Android phones can be hacked to show incorrect platform versions, there are great chances that some of these results were faked, though the possibility that they actually point at the next Android release stands as well.
Hopefully, CES 2011 would provide with a better understanding of these version numberings, and the first devices that would pack Honeycomb, which should be tablet PCs, would make an official appearance there.