Google has followed Amazon into the mobile music business, making the launch, and the next generation of Android, the first day highlights of its I/O developer conference.
The company said there are now 100m activated Android devices, with that figure rising by 400,000 a day. The next upgrade to the OS, Ice Cream Sandwich (more prosaically release 2.4), will reunite the two strands of Android, which currently has separate variations for tablets (Honeycomb) and handsets (Gingerbread). There were few details of features, but Google was clearly sensitive about Android's reputation for being fragmented, stressing that the upgrade would create "one OS that runs everywhere". And some of the functions that are currently confined to Honeycomb, such as the holographic user interface and sliding widgets, will be available to all devices with 2.4.
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