Shark sandwich
As Engadget said in its original story, you expect a few leaks prior to the launch of a major new version of Android, but not necessarily a two minute video walkthrough.
But that's exactly what the gadget blog got, courtesy of an anonymous reader who ordered a Nexus S on eBay. Imagine his surprise when he turned the thing and it was running a version of Android that hasn't even been released yet.
Furthermore Ice Cream Sandwich, which is expected to be called Android 4.0 when it's launched, is the most significant version for some time as it recombines the two versions of Android created when Google launched Honeycomb at the end of last year especially for tablets.
The story says it's possible this could be a hoax, or not entirely representative of the final build, but it's worth watching for some of the new features it seems to reveal. Without meaning to sound ungrateful, the video is irritatingly amateurish at times, but it's worth persisting with to get an idea of some of the goodies Google has in store for us. For his troubles the tipster apparently got his phone remotely wiped by Google, which you can read all about here.
