Works for your Android phone and
Honeycomb Tablet too.
Not exact matches
The laptop dock is nice
too, turning the
tablet into a super thin Ultrabook - like device powered by
Honeycomb.
However, while
Honeycomb is still being refined for a formal launch, we have some information (thanks to intomobile) of the 7 inch Acer
tablet that
too is getting its final shape at the Acer stable and will make its debut laced with Android 2.3 Gingerbread to begin with.
On Tuesday, Asus showed several
tablets running
Honeycomb, although it
too declined to make them available for hands - on evaluations.
Then the Xoom
tablet carries a lot of significance for Google
too as it would be the first
tablet PC to run
Honeycomb, the first version of Android that has been designed exclusively for use on
tablet like devices.
Also, with Android Honey being the default OS, the usual
Honeycomb related specs are all
too evident in the
tablet with 1 GHz Nvidia Tegra 2 dual core ARM Cortex A9 processor, 1 GB RAM, 32 GB of on board storage, which is further expandable via a microSD card slot.
Couldnt be happier, the dev scene is quite big and you can install cm7 with
tablet tweaks onit
too so you get the bottom status bar just like
honeycomb, plus its got the same tegra 2processor so for nearlly 300 quid cheaper, well worth it
Unfortunately, the Sony
Tablet S arrived
too late in the market, with an old version of
Honeycomb, with Tegra 2, and at a fairly high price ($ 600).
Toshiba
too has an Android
Honeycomb tablet up its sleeve though it did not have a name till now.
Compatible with
Honeycomb (and likely upcoming versions
too), you must have a Slingbox to actually, y» know, sling TV shows to your
tablet.
Google's own mobile Android operating system is the choice platform
too for these new
tablets, with reported enhancements being made for Android «
Honeycomb» 3.0 to be more large display friendly.
If you're struggling to answer that question, don't worry,
tablet makers are
too, and so we have the latest challenger to
Honeycomb tablet market: the LG Optimus... Read more
Admittedly, some of the «value» competition lacks Google services and cameras,
too; but the Nook
Tablet's core specs are good enough for it to play in the big kids» sandbox, alongside 7 - inch Android
Honeycomb tablets from the likes of Samsung and Toshiba.
But don't forget,
too much salt is bad for you, and scepticism should be tempered by the knowlege that Motorola, Google's best
Honeycomb chum, has started rolling out 3.2 for its Xoom
tablet in the States.
Acer hasn't done anything
too drastic on top of
Honeycomb 3.2 (there are a few added widgets and apps), but the
tablet seems a tad sluggish when navigating in portrait mode and a number of apps keep crashing.
Following the theme of «guess the unique selling point for the
tablet» it's worth pointing out here that the Dell Streak might be running 2.2 in this demo but not only is 2.3 possible but
Honeycomb too.
Elsewhere the A500 is swift in operation as you'd expect given the hardware it offers, but amongst the
Honeycomb tablets we've seen so far, there isn't
too much between them when it comes to that core experience.
Honeycomb tablets are likely to be
too big to whip out in the street to get directions, but sitting in your local coffee shop it's a great experience.
The device originally came with Android
Honeycomb 3.0 which was made specifically for
tablets but Google decided to make a more universal version (and a lot better
too!)
This is the first
Honeycomb tablet so I am not
too surprised at the initial pricing although $ 800 kind of made me vomit a little.
Lenovo
Honeycomb tablet will be also shipped with dual - digitizer with «true pen support» for note taking, and an optional accessory — the full - size keyboard dock, which is having «TouchPad»
too and it can also swithched to Laptop mode and work similar to how the ASUS Eee Pad Transformer does.
While the Prime with its quad core Tegra 3 processor is just about ready to launch, $ 250 for any Android
Honeycomb tablet as good as this one is a deal
too good to pass up.
Despite the lack of any hard evidence, it's not
too hard to believe —
Honeycomb has been rumoured to optimize Android for the
tablet form factor, and a couple of Verizon leaks have already suggested a
tablet from Motorola code - named Stingray.