Google hasn’t even revealed specific details on what its next version of Android, tastily named Ice Cream Sandwich, will do differently from previous versions. A new rumor has now surfaced that suggests the next version of Android after Ice Cream Sandwich may be called Jelly Bean.
Read MoreWhy isn’t Chrome a part of Android? It’s a question as old as time
itself. Or at least a few years old. But given that the same company,
Google, makes both products, it never made much sense. Now they’re
finally taking steps to resolve this.
There has been a lot of reports that the iPhone 5 and Google Nexus 3 will be launched at the same time at the end of September. Most people already know a lot about the upcoming iPhone 5, but there is limited information about the Google Nexus 3.
Read MoreMicrosoft announced that the next version of the Windows Phone operating system, code-named Mango, has been delivered to manufacturers, which can begin testing it on their handsets. The move is one of the final steps before the software arrives on new phones and is delivered to existing users as a software update.
Read MoreMozilla revealed preliminary plans to take the Gecko engine that drives its Firefox browser and turn it into an open-source operating system that will eventually work on phones and tablets. Called Boot to Gecko, it is known that the source code will be released to the public "in real-time," wrote Andreas Gal, a Mozilla researcher.
Read MoreResearch In Motion promises to give more details about devices featuring the BlackBerry 7 operating system. RIM announced on its official Twitter feed that it would release details of forthcoming devices featuring the company's new operating system.
Videos of the first Nokia handset to use Microsoft's Windows Phone operating system have hit the Internet after Nokia CEO demonstrated the phone to staff earlier this week. Codenamed "Sea Ray," the device is a Windows Phone-powered version of the Maemo/MeeGo-driven N9 that was announced earlier this week.
Read MoreNokia unveiled its new N9 smartphone that runs the MeeGo operating system, and is being marketed as a "pure touch screen" device without buttons. The N9 will launch later this year, and the company will release later the device's pricing and availability in various markets, Nokia CEO Stephen Elop said at a company event in Singapore.
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