Honeycomb demoed at CES and it's Android 3.0

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It's not for "tablets only". Google Mobile Blog says...

"Honeycomb is the next version of the Android platform, designed from the ground up for devices with larger screen sizes, particularly tablets."

http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2011/01/sneak-peak-of-android-30-honeycomb.html

By the way it looks so cool. I can't wait for a good Android tablet to come out.

 

[crachel]

Really glad I decided against the Galaxy Tab..

 

[ROM_Guest]

have you never heard of marketing?

"designed for tablets" is marketing bs. Until someone shows a significant change in the tablet and cell phone hardware, it will continue to be bs. A few applications will need to be changed (like GMail) but the rest is marketing.

I appreciate your point from a technicalists perspective, but "designed for tablets" meant in that article that they were only putting it on tablets, and that was my first hunch.

Thats all.

 

[sockan87]

This is a demo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgmN8uKUgIg&feature=player_embedded

 

[solidmac]

all i see here is some very hardware demanding operating system... i believed that mobile OS were suppose to aim for lightness and speed as well as ease of use.. i hope that they hit at least the last one with this next version update

 

[vamp6x6x6x]

I'm actually happy its just for tablets. Tablets need something to make the special beyond "just big phones"

Plus I couldn't imagine how weird it would be with capacitive screen buttons on the phone but honeycomb virtual screen buttons as well?

Well played Google... Well played

I agree, the tablets need their own brand(for lack of a better term) of Android to make it more like an advanced android of awesomeness and less like a giant android phone..

 

[Sarg92]

Honeycomb isn't exclusive to tablets, it's just that Google has only showed off how it works on tablets for now.

It will be on phones as well as Matias Duarte said that Honeycomb is scalable and is the future for Android on all devices. Sony has also said that the Xperia Arc (which ships with Gingerbread) will be updated to Honeycomb as soon as the software is available.

I reckon at the MWC, Google will provide a preview of Honeycomb for phones.

 

[njbe]

GB is currently the latest for phones, HC is currently the latest for tablets. HC (or even later version) will be the latest for both of them eventually. HC is designed to work on all kinds of hardware. I don't get how people can be so misinformed on this "issue"

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