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Re:Google confirms Nexus S will get Ice Cream Sandwich (Ging... by eatporktoo on Wednesday October 19, 2011 @09:55AM (#3130122)
Yes. They said that they didn't release the source for Honeycomb because there was no support for smaller devices because they were "cutting corners". I closed the tab a few minutes ago otherwise I'd have the link for you.
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Re:Google confirms Nexus S will get Ice Cream Sandwich (Ging... by eatporktoo on Wednesday October 19, 2011 @01:56PM (#3131246)
Found the link: http://thisismynext.com/2011/10/18/exclusive-matias-duarte-i...

This is the exact quote: “On Honeycomb we cheated, we cut the corner of all that smaller device support. That’s the sole reason we haven’t open sourced it.”

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