Android is the leading smartphone platform with a diverse array of devices available from a variety of manufacturers, and from virtually every wireless carrier. As capable as the Android OS might be, though, its diversity is also one of its greatest handicaps.

Google recently unveiled the next major release of Android: Android 4.0 “Ice Cream Sandwich”. The latest iteration of Android combines the features and capabilities of the Android 2.3 “Gingerbread” OS for smartphones, and Android 3.0 “Honeycomb” OS for tablets into an integrated OS that serves both types of devices simultaneously.