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Despite ongoing speculation that Android 3.0 is imminent, it looks like the then and there release of the mobile operating system--dubbed "Honeycomb"--will be version 2.4.

Report this week on Android

That's according to a report this week on Android and Me, which cites a developer source who is working on third-party software for multiple versions of Android.

Few details about Honeycomb were divulged at that time of Rubin's demonstration, nevertheless he did confirm that--unlike previous versions of Android--Honeycomb will be optimized for both tablets and smartphones.

Google has said in the past that other versions of Android are not in effect tablet-ready, and will not properly run applications downloaded from the Android App Market.

"For whatever reason, it sounds like Google is holding version 3.0 for something special," Android and Me's Taylor Wimberly wrote. "You would think they [would] throw 3.0 out [there] to make a statement when the first Honeycomb tablets launch, now I guess like most big Google launches those will be sort of beta, with some new features on the whole missing."

Android versions tend to come out about every six months, with dessert-focused names. The "Froyo" version launched previously this year added enterprise-focused features including IT password enforcement and remote wipe, during Gingerbread added communications capabilities just as a Nearly-Field Communications reader and SIP-based VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) calling.

Linux-based Android however holds third place in U.S. mobile operating system market share, according to comScore, with 24 percent of the market in October.

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