ics is now in aosp. because of the nature of git, that means honeycomb is too. countdown to cm9 starts now.
wha? you mean the simd functions of the OpSat went fresh? WHAT DO YOUR TERMS MEAN MAN YOUR SPEAKING IN GIBBERISH! Or more likely Android fanboy geek-speak.
aosp = android open source project. http://source.android.com Google releases the source code of each new version of android and developers are able to use it to make their roms. they didn't do it with honeycomb do to it being not complete. but since ics builds on top of honeycomb, honeycomb got included in the released source. CM9 = cyanogenmod based on ics. cyanogenmod is one of the largest android homebrew projects out. as a matter of fact, it got so big, samsung hired the founder, cyanogen. also, manufacturers often send the team some of their phones so they can jump start the dev community of it and make the phone popular. On another note, one of the cm devs on older devices
So this just happened. http://www.theverge.com/2012/1/5/2685410/sprint-galaxy-nexus-4g-lte-leak Odd things to note is that this Sprint version is advertised with a 1.5GHz processor (original galaxy nexus has 1.2GHz) and LTE. Sprint's LTE network is due to launch in mid 2012 (4 markets). I guess CES next week may shed more light.