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Originally Posted by rebeltaz
Wow... is this thread even in English?!  |
Just a quick rundown... Google names its versions of Android after certain foods. Entourage named their builds something completely different:
1.5 = Android "Cupcake"
1.6 = Android "Donut" (Entourage "Dingo")
2.1 = Android "Eclair"
2.2 = Android "Froyo" (Entourage "Ermine")
2.3 = Android "Gingerbread"
3.X = Android "Honeycomb"
4.X = Android "Ice Cream Sandwich" or "ICS"
Versions "Cupcake" through "Gingerbread" were designed with cell phones in mind - meaning that for tablets to run those operating systems the software had to be tweaked significantly. They can get by with this because the Android software (Like its Linux foundation) is open source.
When "Honeycomb" came out it was designed to be a tablet-only operating system. Because of this you won't find many (if any) phones that run on "Honeycomb".
When Google released "ICS" they claim that "ICS" is designed to run on everything - and by everything they mean tablets *AND* phones. Some people misunderstood that statement and think that their dated equipment will be able to run "ICS" with no problems when in fact doing this would be the equivalent of trying to run Windows 7 on an old 386 computer - it simply isn't going to happen.
Devices still have to meet certain hardware requirements in order to run "ICS" and the Edge devices simply do not meet these requirements.
I'd expect to see WebOS to run on an Edge device long before ICS ever does but to be honest I really don't ever see either happening. Don't get me wrong I love my Edge but as it ages its support community will diminish and development will come to a grinding halt. I haven't seen any for sale in bulk in a few months now so I think it's pretty safe to say that all inventory of the Edge devices are most likely depleted. It's all downhill from here.