Honeycomb With Hidden Gingerbread Interface?

During Google’s I/O conference they talked a bit about their much anticipated and talked about operating system update – Ice Cream Sandwich which was supposed to bridge the tablet’s and cell phones operating systems and make them into just one.

Currently Android cell phones are running on Gingerbread 2.3.4, with the exception of a couple still running on Froyo 2.2. Android tablets on the other hand mostly run on the tablet-centered operating system, Honeycomb 3.1, with a couple of exceptions running on Gingerbread 2.3.4. The whole point of Ice Cream Sandwich was to drop both operating systems and make one universal operating system that could support both tablets and cell phones, much like Apple’s iOS.

However, it seems that recently a YouTube user has posted a video that shows a hidden Android 2.3 Gingerbread user interface that was hidden inside his rooted Dell Streak Android Honeycomb tablet. What the user discovered was that by increasing the pixel density setting on his device beyond 170 the operating system thought that it was running on a phone and switched user interfaces after a reboot. While perhaps not the most elegant of solutions it goes to show that Google is well on their way to creating the Ice Cream Sandwich operating system, much closer than we thought too.

If you want to watch the video, click here for the link to YouTube.