Android 2.4, or Ice Cream, is set for a June / July release, according to Pocket-Lint's sources. An announcement on the new version will be at Google I/O at the beginning of May. The summer, of course, is perfect for Ice Cream.
However, that timing should distract attention away from Android 2.4. After all, June / July is the normal time for an iPhone update, and this year, we're probably going to see both a CDMA version and GSM version of the iPhone 5, or whatever it ends up being called.
Although Honeycomb is meant for tablets only, that doesn't mean that future revisions of Android for smartphones won't incorporate some of the changes. In fact, that was implied in this interview with Matias Duarte, who heads up Google's user experience for Android.
Assuming Ice Cream maintains the 2.4 version, we may see the codelines and features merge post-3.0. It will be interesting to see how Duarte pulls that off.
