For one thing, there aren't too many
Honeycomb apps available right now and the smartphone apps look simply awkward when blown up to the 10.1» inch 1280 by 800 pixel screen resolution.
We've been detailing our favourite
Honeycomb apps in a running list here.
And even now months after its release,
Honeycomb apps are severely lacking.
Honeycomb apps seem few and far between.
As an owner of both a 3G iPad and a 3G Xoom, the lack of Android
honeycomb apps is my biggest disappointment.
It looks good, it works well on the large screen and it's definitely one of our favourite
Honeycomb apps so far.
We'd been keeping our eyes on Google Earth and now it is Honeycomb optimised, we've decided that it earns its place in our favourite
Honeycomb apps.
We've told you about Pulse already as it was our App Of The Day recently and it's one of our top
Honeycomb apps.
Feel free to add a comment below and we'll check it out and continue to expand our list of
Honeycomb apps.
So what we're starting here is a growing list of the best
Honeycomb apps we've dug out, tried, tested and found to be worth getting excited about.
You now have your tablet's list of Android
Honeycomb apps available for your perusal.
Read on for a link to to the Android developer site, where you can read an in - depth guide to adding smartphone support to
Honeycomb apps.
People also keep saying there aren't a lot of
Honeycomb apps, but other than a wallpaper app, every app I've tried has worked well.
Translation: since developers are ignoring HoneyComb due to our depressing tablet sales, maybe knowing
HoneyComb apps will also run on phones will cause developers to actually write some apps.
Does anyone even know how many
honeycomb apps are out there?
Are you saying who cares in reference to the fact the no one will buy this thing or who cares in reference to the idea that Android tablet buyers who DO buy this will be dissapointed it doesn't run
honeycomb Apps, and many other apps are just scaled up versions of whats on their phones?
Android 3.0
Honeycomb apps need to catch up for it to compete with the iPad but we fully expect this to happen soon, and Android has its own trump cards like Flash video in the interim.
The most serious shortcoming of the tablet in use isn't one that Asus has any control over — it's Android 3.0
Honeycomb apps.
I'm not going to even consider buying an Android tablet for another 2 years, because there's currently barely
any honeycomb apps, and currently only one tablet has honeycomb.
The 5MP camera at the back of the Slider uses the standard
Honeycomb app, and is fairly grainy.
That slick Gmail
Honeycomb app you've heard about on most Android tablets?
The new
Honeycomb app builds on a very successful launch of SwiftKey ™, originally designed for smartphones.
The process of updating is slowly taking place and we predict that by the end of the 2011
the Honeycomb app space will be much more advanced, but currently when put alongside the iPad offering we're not quite there yet.
Better is Quick View in the browser, baking a proprietary algorithm into the native
Honeycomb app that speeds up webpage load times as well as pre-caching offscreen portions of each site.
This week Seesmic started showing off a new tablet version of its Twitter and Facebook client, while Twitter client Plume launched a public beta of
a Honeycomb app.
Uploading music from iTunes was slow but steady and
the Honeycomb app has a clean, modern 2D graphical interface that's fast and easy to use.
Clicking the Digital Crown on the watch face opens
the honeycomb app launcher, which is where you can open the various other apps on the Watch.
Not exact matches
The touch screen lets you slide the
honeycomb around to see different portions of your
app collection.
Without enough units physically in the hands of everyday users, developers simply are not going to develop
apps for
Honeycomb.
The MSO said the
app has been certified to run on Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 and Motorola Mobility's Xoom but is designed to run on any tablet based on
Honeycomb (Android version 3.x).
This is a Froyo tablet in an era of
Honeycomb, running NVIDIA's chipset but without its flagship demo
apps.
Other
Honeycomb tweaks include a task bar at the bottom of the screen that pulls up the five most commonly run
apps (no word on whether or not users can manually program the
apps featured), a settings popup on the Home screen, and the ability to resize widgets, though it's not clear if that feature extends to all widgets or just Samsung widgets.
This
app works with Gingerbread,
Honeycomb and Ice Cream Sandwich Android devices.
He did, however, say that
Honeycomb adds APIs called fragments that allow one
app to hold multiple views for different platforms (phones and tablets).
Looking back at the look and feel of
Honeycomb on the Galaxy Tab 10.1, the addition of Ice Cream Sandwich gives everything a more polished, sophisticated feel and adds great features such as the ability to swipe away recent
apps, browser tweaks and the useful application folders.
If Google would've been a lot more serious about tablets from day one, and not rush an unfinished
Honeycomb OS to market, with a very expensive $ 800 tablet (Motorola Xoom), and if they would've released the SDK months earlier, so people can get some
apps on those tablets, Android tablets could've taken off a lot earlier.
Quickoffice is an all - in - one
app for word documents, spreadsheets, and presentations, and it now works seamlessly with
Honeycomb.
Android tablets may boast impressive guts like zippy processors and LTE data speeds, but that gets ruined by
Honeycomb's clunky interface and the extreme lack of good
apps.
The 7 - inch T - Mobile Springboard tablet offers solid performance, scores of
apps, and Android
Honeycomb in a slim, attractive package, but the battery life could be better.
Most of these problems will be fixed in the Android
Honeycomb 3.1 (introduced at Google I / O) coming in a few weeks along with the new Android Market (new design, plenty more sorting features etc and 4gb limit from 50mb for
apps!)
As with other
Honeycomb tablets, a Recent
Apps button displays open apps in a thumbnail view so you can switch between them eas
Apps button displays open
apps in a thumbnail view so you can switch between them eas
apps in a thumbnail view so you can switch between them easily.
Android
Honeycomb features: smartphone
apps will work on tablets without modification, built - in video chat La Leccion de Hoy on February 16th, 2011 3:02 pm
There is not even a option in the marketplace to even look for
apps that were optimized or created especially for
Honeycomb based devices.
Also, the tablet will feature Dell Stage 2.0 UI on top of Android
Honeycomb plus a range of enterprise
apps to appeal to its business consumer base.
The online site for the
app store is still in progress, and when it is up all the gadgets that have Android 3.1
Honeycomb or higher will be able to gain access to it.
On the day that Google made its Android 3.0
Honeycomb platform available on the highly anticipated Motorola Xoom tablet, CNN has also launched a free CNN
App for Android's
Honeycomb tablet platform.
One of the main complaints about
Honeycomb is the lack of
apps that are legitimately tailored to its ecosystem.
Amazon's Kindle
app, available on a number of platforms, is only just now making the leap to
Honeycomb with an improved layout and so on.
You don't get the minor enhancements available in the latest Android 3.2 OS, such as zooming for phone - based
apps, but Sony went out of its way to enhance the stock Android
Honeycomb experience.
There are a few hitches with
Honeycomb running Android
apps, but generally pretty good.