Labs in Mountain View and Cupertino are hiding fresh takes on the computing market. Apple recently announced that they’ll unveil their fresh take during WWDC 2011 in June, while we can now say with fairly certainty that Google will unveil their fresh take during Google I/O in May. Android 3.1 Ice Cream Sundae is the full name of the next step in a computing world increasingly dominated by Google. Only time will tell whether Apple’s iOS 5 will be ready to compete head-to-head with Android 3.1 from day one, but we expect these two systems to steal most of the headlines More >
Affirming gossip about Android Honeycomb, Google said that it will still make all of its operating system (OS), including Honeycomb (Android 3.0) brings open source.
Andy Rubin as Vice President of Engineering, in the Android Developers blob said that they will remain open source platform and released the source code when it is ready.
He explained that the Android team is also still working hard to deliver all the features Honeycomb to the phone. Immediately after completion, Google will publish the source code.
He add that this temporary delay, it does not mean we change the strategy.
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Sprint announced the HTC EVO View 4G back in March at CTIA and what we saw was a gorgeous, WiMax enabled tablet that was running a version of Android 2.3 Gingerbread. However, just a short time ago, Sprint’s “This just in” page listed the HTC EVO View 4G will be arriving with Android Honeycomb 3.0.
So which is it? Will the tablet that won our award for Best Tablet of CTIA arrive with the sweet taste of Honeycomb? Or will it arrive with a version of Gingerbread?
Unfortunately, the answer isn’t clear. Sprint spokesman Mark Elliott had told Android Central that the company More >
Google is probably the latest entity to join the arena of tablet makers. The company is reportedly mulling over the launch of a new a Nexus tablet alongside their smartphone – Google Nexus S.
Speculations have it that the upcoming tablet will be built by LG. This new choice of the manufacturer triggers many a question. As we know, the Nexus S was built by Samsung and Google preferred HTC for making the first Google Nexus phone.
Well, does this mean that Samsung and HTC have fallen out of favor with Google these days? The general feeling is what we just voiced, More >
Access to Honeycomb’s open source code confined to Google’s key tablet partners for an unspecified period
The danger of open source is that a platform becomes fragmented and the implementations can be of varying quality. This dilemma is highlighted in Google’s decision to delay broad release of the tablet optimized version of Android, Honeycomb, a move that has reawakened fury over a ‘two-tier approach’. Developers and OEMs claim that, in a truly open source environment, they should get equal access to new releases, but in fact, Google is restricting Honeycomb, for now, to its primary partners, such as Motorola, HTC and More >
Since we first heard about the HTC Pyramid smartphone, a 4G dual-core processor phone, rumored to be coming to T-Mobile, we’ve been getting quite excited. This sounds like a great phone but one of the things we’d heard that was rather baffling to us was that it would be running on Android 3.0 Honeycomb.
This sounded rather unlikely to us and we felt it was more likely to have Android 2.3 Gingerbread with HTC Sense, as Honeycomb was an operating system specifically designed for tablets. We recently supplied you with more specs and then some pictures of this handset and also More >
Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. (MMI) announced this week that its XOOM will now have a Wi-Fi edition in the U.S. beginning March 27. Some of the retailers offering the 10.1-inch HD tablet powered by Android 3.0 Honeycomb include Amazon, Best Buy, RadioShack, Costco, Staples, Walmart, and some Sam’s Club locations. The 32 GB tablet has an MSRP of $599.
“Motorola XOOM is a truly innovative tablet – its design, coupled with being the first tablet to have Android 3.0, results in a user experience that is one-of-a-kind,” said Dan Papalia, vice president of retail sales for Motorola Mobility. “We are now continuing More >
Have a look with us at the most dominant weather app in the Android world, this one optimized not only for Android 3.0 Honeycomb, but specifically for the giant screens that Honeycomb is meant for. This is WeatherBug, an app made by WeatherBug Mobile, and we’ve got it working on the Motorola XOOM. This app is not only free, it’s utterly professional, and the ads that make it free are basically completely hidden (or built in so well you don’t even notice them as out of place.
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When you first open the app, you notice one thing – your location More >
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As smartphone sales for the Android continue to surge, many believe that Android-based devices have the potential to give the Apple iPad a run for its money in the tablet market. But according to a new report from Forrester Research, the iPad’s competitors won’t be able to keep up.
The report calls the iPad challengers – from Android Honeycomb tablets from Motorola and Toshiba to RIM’s BlackBerry PlayBook and HP TouchPad – "solid products with fatally flawed product strategies."
"Miscalculations in pricing and distribution spell trouble for Android tablets, especially the Motorola Xoom," the report said.
The most basic version of the iPad More >
Have a look with us at the most dominant weather app in the Android world, this one optimized not only for Android 3.0 Honeycomb, but specifically for the giant screens that Honeycomb is meant for. This is WeatherBug, an app made by WeatherBug Mobile, and we’ve got it working on the Motorola XOOM. This app is not only free, it’s utterly professional, and the ads that make it free are basically completely hidden (or built in so well you don’t even notice them as out of place.
The new widget panel design on the new WeatherBug Mobile App for Android(TM) 3.0 More >
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