Get your IceCreamSandwich!

Well...sort of. Syndicate apps just launched a new launcher built to resemble just that. More specifically, it was based off of the "leaked" photos that were floating around about a month ago. It resembles those photos closely, though Syndicate did have to use their imagination to cover the parts that the photos different.

I've only had the launcher for half a day, but so far, most of my impressions have been positive.

Here's what it looks like:

Nexus Prime support page pops up, tipster gleans a few tidbits

An unidentified GSM arena tipster found a support page for the much lusted Nexus Prime. The support page is officially for the GT-i9250, which belongs to no product as of yet, but the tipster believes that this will be the product number for the unannounced, unreleased Prime. There have been numerous leaks about the Prime's specs before now, but this is the first cold hard evidence that has been released supporting its existence.


The support page itself hardly has anything regarding the phone, with the FAQ's and the support links all belonging to other phones.


The first thing that the tipster reported was the fact that the leaked user agent profile that was supposedly for the Prime was actually for the Nexus S. He said that by doing so, the page was just to be used as a placeholder for when the Prime was released. And oh yeah, the name? Turns out that the name Nexus Prime is probably (but not certainly) a code name, and that the actual release name may be "Google Galaxy Prime" or something of that nature.


And when that leaked user agent profile leaked, there was a whole lot of controversy surrounding the purported 800x480 resolution. That makes sense because the page was used as a placeholder, a place held by the Nexus S, which contains that resolution. The tipster believes that the resolution should be an intense 1280x800 HD resolution, on a 4.65 inch edge to edge curved glass display. 


The body of the phone will be constructed of aluminum, much like the Nexus One, and will be a slim 8.8 mm thin.


And the phone will launch around October, confirming Eric Schmidt's own leak when he reported the first Ice Cream Sandwich handsets would launch then.

3 Reasons the Ice Cream Sandwich leak is faked

I know many of you Android fans were more than a bit disappointing in the "leaked" photos of Ice Cream Sandwich, but fear not. As I was scrolling through the comments section on Engadget, I found a few good reasons that this is a fake and not the real deal.


1. The build number.


As shown on one of the photos, the build number for this is supposed to be 2.6.35.7. Honeycomb's build is 2.6.36, or newer than the one demonstrated in the photos. That would either mean this version of the software was built before honeycomb (which wouldn't make any sense as honeycomb has been out for over 6 months) or that it is faked. Also Ice Cream Sandwich was reputed to be built off of the Linux 3.0 kernel, and this obviously is not.


2. Android Version Number.


And that's it. The Android Version number is supposed to be just that, a number, such as 2.2 or 2.3. In the photos you can clearly see that there was no build number and instead read IceCreamSandwich. This may have been because no version number has been released as to what Ice Cream Sandwich will be- 2.4 or 4.0. Point is nobody knows and if somebody manufactured this photo they wouldn't have known either- so they just put what it is called.


3. UI elements.


As Google has told us, Ice Cream Sandwich is the Android version that will bring Honeycomb and Gingerbread together. Unfortunately, this leaked photo has none of the visual cues and flair featured in honeycomb, instead looking more like a small update to gingerbread. Also we were told that Ice Cream Sandwich would run on both tablets and phones, and if this were to run on a tablet it would look absoulutely horrible.

Is it a Tablet? Or a Phone? (Asus PadFone)

Earlier this year, Motorola released the Atrix, a device that is one of a kind in the fact that it could plug into a laptop dock and run it using the powerful dual core Tegra 2 processor. The idea did not take off, mainly due to the fact that the dock is prohibitively expensive

Now, Asus, the creator of the Transformer tablet that can "transform" from a tablet to a laptop has released a new design that demonstrates a similar concept, only this time with a phone that powers a tablet.

It seems that the phone will connect to the tablet via micro HDMI and USB. The phone will provide the processing power, and the tablet will presumably provide some extra battery life. The tablet has a hole so that the phone's camera can still take photos. The phone is contained in a hatch on the back of the device

The only released specs for the device are a 10.1 inch screen on the tablet and a 4.3 inch one on the phone. Asus will reportedly release the device around Christmas, not any sooner due to the fact that Ice Cream Sandwich, its reported OS, won't be released until late this year. If Asus plans to release it any sooner, it will have to run Gingerbread, as Honeycomb is not available for phones.