Raspberry Pi gets Ice Cream Sandwich up and running, sounds delicious

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Work on [Raspberry Pi][3] just doesn't stop, and the latest news from the programming box's official blog is that its _already_ got Google's ([second][4]) newest Android iteration running on the tinker toy. While this early version is reportedly working smoothly, with hardware-accelerated graphics already in place, a developer is still working on adding support for AudioFlinger, Android's native audio software. This Raspberry-flavored Ice Cream Sandwich apparently runs on both a kernel and VideoCore binary image that's currently not publicly available. The team is still looking into whether the two code lines can be wrapped into a single entity before it offers up the source to its users. See how the experimental pairing fares in a quick video runthrough after the break.

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