Leaks Of Android Ice Cream Sandwich Emerge By Strathclyde Associates News

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Now that Google is only months away from unwrapping Ice Cream Sandwich, Android’s latest OS, leaks of it running on a Nexus popping out every now and then should be expected.

Screenshots were leaked by Android Police and RootzWiki which, as can be seen in one, shows Ice Cream Sandwich running in a Nexus S.

Reminiscent of the Honeycomb’s Tron, ICS looks like a blue-themed one, with icons on the notification bar like those ones on Gingerbread (sans the green color).

There’s an image showing what seemed to be the notification panel pulled all the way down and something for news and app notif as well.

RootzWiki also released details about the alleged specs of the Ice Cream Sandwich Nexus, though they have been vague about the ‘reliable source’. Looks like the new Android build will sport a blue theme, some ICS features, a built-in camera panoramic mode, task switching capabilities, app drawer, launcher and the good old Google search bar embedded on the top. It is also rumored that Google Shopper will be launched in this version while Gmail will be having a new theme.

For now, this ...
... will only be available on Nexus Prime (and then prolly Nexus S).

Some of those are really not shockers; we had been expecting Google Shopper to be connected to ICS seeing how Google is busy testing out their Wallet service.

The camera’s built-in panorama mode is an interesting one just because the default cam app in most Droids is not so remarkable. We only hope there are more functions or features that will be added.

Aside from that, there is nothing more to scrape. And we’re seeing a lot of black bars all over the leaked images, too.

What’s fishy here is the uncanny resemblance of the leak images to Gingerbread. Except for the neat blue theme and a quite different variation of glass launcher at the bottom part, it’s basically the same. For all we know, this could just be a custom theme installed on Gingerbread; which begs the question whether the leak is legit or just the work from trolls.

Hoping for the best, maybe it’s really an early version of ICS we have here. Remember the untimely shots of Android 2.3 that are so fuzzy you barely recognize a thing? Well, that turned out as a genuine one. We could only hope the same (or better) for Ice Cream Sandwich.

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