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.
You now have your tablet's list of Android
Honeycomb apps available for your perusal.
Not exact matches
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.
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.
With
Honeycomb running in a powerful tablet such as the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 and an
app store providing a lot of the most popular
apps available in iTunes, including the long awaited and recently released Netflix
app, users can get a lot done efficiently.
The new
app features are
available for popular 7 - inch and larger tablets using Android OS 2.1 and higher (
Honeycomb).
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Right now, there are few
apps optimized for
Honeycomb available.
In our quest for answers, we sought out primarily developers who have successful Android
apps that are also
available for the iPad, but don't yet have a
Honeycomb version.
We already have Flixter's Movies in this
Honeycomb list, but IMDb has updated its
app to be
Honeycomb optimised and done a great job, so it's worth having, and a big step over the phone version that was previously
available.
These are early days for
Honeycomb (at the time of writing) and with only one device currently
available, we can understand that developers haven't raced off to upgrade their
apps.
Honeycomb is so new that there isn't a great deal of tablet - specific
apps available yet but there are a few.
But honestly, there still aren't that many
Honeycomb - specific
apps available, so I doubt most people would notice a difference, and Android 2.3 looks pretty good on a sharp 7 inch screen.