Crazy Rumor: Android 5.0 "Jelly Bean" in 2Q12

[stingray71]

Love Jelly Beans! Have ICS on my Xoom and love it, browser is better, ability to easily combine apps into one folder, and overall increase in speed/smoothness have make it worth it for me.

 

[nekatreven]

Damn. I was some jelly beans now. Jerks

 

[king_maliken]

Well I'm happy with my new Nexus running 4.0, and I do agree that to some extend they need to tackle the fragmentation issue. But, I will still welcome 5.0 with open arms.

 

[JOSHSKORN]

See, I'm not an Apple fan by any stretch of the imagination, but I was afraid of this problem. Too many "similar" phones/devices running the same platform, delaying the upgrade process.

Why can't smartphone OS upgrades be similar to Windows upgrades? From Windows Vista to Windows 7, there's simply 1 upgrade disk for each version of Windows you wish to upgrade to, times 2 for 32-bit and x64 systems. There isn't one set up upgrade disks per vender, per computer which has different hardware. Surely, you end up with bloatware on your computer, but that can be controlled.

 

[Camikazi]

[citation][nom]Factcheck[/nom]Doesn't follow the frozen treat theme? I guess you forgot about Cupcake, Donut, Eclair, Gingerbread, and Honeycomb. Frozen treats have been the minority of Android releases.[/citation]
Yea Android has been about being alphabetical and being a dessert, although I have no idea what A and B were since they seem to have started with "C"upcake.

 

[danwat1234]

[citation][nom]Classzero[/nom]This is bringing fragmentation to a higher level.[/citation]
Fragmentation doesn't really matter with SSDs, besides slightly higher power consumption

 

[zippyzion]

All it seems to take is one whack job on a forum to post some unfounded rumor and the internet goes bananas. I'm turning this into a drinking game. I'll binge drink every time I see a wild rumor and see how long it is before my liver fails. Give it a break. We are looking so far into the future that we don't see the great devices we have today. Then we complain because our old stuff isn't new. Android is an open source community. If you don't like your phones OS there is a huge group of people that offer FREE roms to upgrade or change it. There is a how to guide on making it happen too. No one but you is keeping you from trying it.

 

[Darkk]

[citation][nom]danwat1234[/nom]Fragmentation doesn't really matter with SSDs, besides slightly higher power consumption[/citation]

Ummm... He wasn't talking about storage. He was talking about different flavors of Android for various smartphones have slowed down the new releases.

Linux community suffers the same fate.

 

[zblade]

[citation][nom]JOSHSKORN[/nom]See, I'm not an Apple fan by any stretch of the imagination, but I was afraid of this problem. Too many "similar" phones/devices running the same platform, delaying the upgrade process.Why can't smartphone OS upgrades be similar to Windows upgrades? From Windows Vista to Windows 7, there's simply 1 upgrade disk for each version of Windows you wish to upgrade to, times 2 for 32-bit and x64 systems. There isn't one set up upgrade disks per vender, per computer which has different hardware. Surely, you end up with bloatware on your computer, but that can be controlled.[/citation]


If they do this then the Nexus wouldn't be as appealing as it is now. The selling point of Nexus phones is they get the latest updates and the latest version first. Wouldn't be much of a selling point if all android phones can get it 1-2 weeks after release.

 

[eddieroolz]

These codenames are becoming hilarious and a bit annoying.

That aside, I'm sure Google has started work on 5.0 already.