Honeycomb’s Fate Leads It To The Slate
Up until now, Android OS has been first and foremost, a smartphone OS. Enter the tablet, and the Google made operating system found its way onto larger touchscreens, stronger processors and myriad new functions. Enter the most recent Android – the Honeycomb iteration – which, from the Android developer’s YouTube video, has officially been announced as the Android OS built specifically for tablet. After watching the video, I can safely say that Honeycomb is SEXYAWESOME! What the OS can do – e-book reader, web browsing, Gmail, Google maps and chat – is not new, but its how Honeycomb handles them, and how they look which is what gets you all giddy. Represented in such a smooth (albeit being an advertisement, and the purpose of marketing) and well-run manner, one can only wonder as to what type of processing muscle is required to run the new OS – will current solutions be able to function as well as on the video, or will it only be properly supported by new generation tabs? Either way, we are moving forward into the future (obviously, unless… Dr.Brown?), and Honeycomb is definitely a step in that direction.
Categories: Android, Android News, Video
