Per the lead Android Developer Jean-Baptiste M. “JBQ” Queru, Android 4.0.3 is now available for manufacturers and developers. What is in this latest version?

-This version of Android is optimized for a wide range of devices. Itworks on phones. It works on tablets. It works on devices that don’tquite have the horsepower of a Galaxy Nexus.

-From a straight AOSP, it works on Galaxy Nexus (the ones sold withmysid and yakju builds), on Motorola Xoom (US variants), and on NexusS (all variants). Proprietary binaries will soon be available forthose devices at the usual location.

-Out of the box, this is the first time that AOSP works on 3 differentdevice families, the first time that it works on tablets, the firsttime that it works directly on a device that’s neither an ADP nor aNexus, and the first time that it works on Verizon devices.

That is cool! Google is making sure there will be no reason ICS can’t be on every new piece of hardware coming out in 2012 and anything fairly new now.

via The source code for Android 4.0.3 is now available – Google Groups.