Android users can still look forward to their "Icecream Sandwich" in autumn 2011. Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt confirmed the latest iteration will get its release in "October / November" in a public interview with Marc Benioff, CEO of SalesForce. The much awaited next version of Android will see the critical merging of the two separate strands of the software. Currently Smartphones are using Android 2.x with the Honeycombe 3.0 variant having been released later to cater for Tablets – this version still not being open source.

We have a new operating system, internally known as Ice Cream Sandwich for some reason, Which is being released in October / November Which everyone's really excited about.

- Eric Schmidt

Here is the full-length video interview: