Samsung first released the Galaxy Tab 10.1,
a Honeycomb tablet featuring a very slim profile and a nice 10.1 - inch display.
Much like Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1, the Galaxy Tab 8.9 is an Android
Honeycomb tablet featuring top - notch specs for its class.
Android apps will run in a special penalty box, will not look like Playbook apps unless developers write new skins, and will not have access to all Android features, most importantly
the Honeycomb tablet features.
We broke the news in February that smartphones will indeed gain
Honeycomb tablet features, and at the Google I / O developer event Tuesday, the company shared a few details of the forthcoming upgrade.
Not exact matches
so far id put them in this order 9.0 samsung
tablet 10.1 / 8.9 (best screen, thinnest, lightest, first to be able to add custom
features to
Honeycomb..
SEATTLE, Apr 21, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE)--(NASDAQ: AMZN)- Today, Amazon announced an update to Kindle for Android that brings new
features and adds support for
tablet computers running Android's
Honeycomb, including the Motorola Xoom.
The Xoom is Motorola Mobility's first
tablet device and
features the Android «
Honeycomb» 3.0 OS, which runs from 10.1 - inch 1280 × 800 16:10 touch screen, with a dual core 1Ghz processor and both 3G and WIFI capabilities, along with a 1.2 megapixel front and a 5MP rear facing camera.
«We've taken all the
features customers love about Kindle for Android, and created a beautiful new user interface and a seamless shopping experience tailored to the look and feel of
Honeycomb tablets,» said Dorothy Nicholls, Director, Amazon Kindle.
Maybe Samsung read my Xoom review and noted my issues with
Honeycomb, or maybe the brains at Samsung and I just think alike, because the company included a TouchWiz UX layer that adds some convenient
features to Google's
tablet OS that improve the experience.
The Toshiba Thrive 7 ″
Tablet will
feature, like its namesake, a 7 ″ (1280 x 800) display, an NVIDIA Tegra 2 dual - core processor, Android 3.2
Honeycomb, a 5 - megapixel rear camera, a 2 - megapixel front facing camera, a Mini USB port, Micro HDMI port, Micro SD card slot, WiFi, Bluetooth and GPS.
The New Galaxy Tab for T - Mobile is set to be the first Android 3.0
Honeycomb tablet to
feature a custom user interface, though it won't ship with what is being called TouchWiz UX out of the box.
The tab, powered by Android's
Honeycomb 3.1 developed for
tablet PCs,
features a 10.1 - inch (25.6 cm) touchscreen display rather than the seven - inch display for the previous model.
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Honeycomb features: smartphone apps will work on
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There are plenty of Android
tablets that run
honeycomb, have
features similar to the ipad and cost less.
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.
It's clear that 3.1 will be released for standard smartphones, prompting us to assume that
Honeycomb will be little more than an update to incorporate specific support for new
features more suited to a
tablet.
The Iconia Tab A100 is the first 7 - inch
tablet to
feature Android OS 3.2, otherwise known as
Honeycomb.
The
tablet features a 1.5 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, 7 inch 1024 × 600 capacitive display, 1.3 megapixel front facing camera for video calls, Android 2.2 with a future update to
Honeycomb planned, 32 GB internal memory with microSDHC slot, 5.0 megapixel -LSB-...]
Their next
tablet is going to
feature Android
Honeycomb, which apparently is going to be
tablet optimized according to Samsung:
For the most part, those
tablets are running Android 3.0 «
Honeycomb» or Microsoft Windows 7, but many are providing some compelling
features.
Apart from the
features outlines above, there is software navigation from Android «
Honeycomb»
tablet interface, there is Android beam with which users can share Youtube videos in no time with their friends by tapping ICS phones together and users can share web pages easily.
For instance Asus is working hard to ensure its extremely popular Android
tablet, the Transformer, is the next
tablet to
feature the latest iteration of Android
Honeycomb.
What's more, the
tablet running
Honeycomb will be launched in its 3G avatar while the company's other
Honeycomb offering, the Eee Pad Transformer —
featuring a detachable keyboard — will also be made available during the same time with 3G capabilities.
One of the biggest
features on these three
tablets is the fact they are shipping with Google Android 3.0
Honeycomb.
Other
features of the
tablet include a 1.2 GHz Qualcomm dual core processor along with Android 3.2,
Honeycomb as the OS.
The other outstanding
feature of this
tablet is that the display has 1366 x 768 pixels which is more than found on most other 10 inch
tablets that run Google Android
Honeycomb.
The update, the first major update to the
tablet oriented Android
Honeycomb edition, will resolve many pain points for the users, as well as introduce a few nifty
features as well.
It's the first 10.1 - inch
tablet featuring Android 3.0, codenamed
Honeycomb, to hit the market.
With a possible
Honeycomb update in pipeline, Flyer is decent
tablet to have at this price; it
features 7 inch display, 1.5 GHz Single core Qualcomm processor, 16 GB internal memory and HTC Sense UI
Asus Eee Pad Transformer TF101 is a convertible
tablet - netbook
featuring Android 3.0
Honeycomb and dual - core 1 GHz Nvidia Tegra 2 processor.
The
feature is baked into Google Android 3.0
Honeycomb, so it will like it will be available on other Android
tablets as well, and not just the Motorola XOOM.
The world's first
tablet to
feature Android
Honeycomb came along with a lot of promise though it did not take much time for the initial excitement that the
tablet generated to fizzle out soon — thanks to the absurdly high price tag that the
tablet came with.
The Xoom is pivitol to the success of Motorolas foray into the world of next generation
tablets featuring the newest iteration of Google
Honeycomb.
Since it is a
Honeycomb tablet, the OliPad 110 spec sheet is pretty familiar in that the
tablet features the NVIDIA Tegra 2 dual - core processor along with 1 GB RAM and 16 GB on - board storage.
The new app
features are available for popular 7 - inch and larger
tablets using Android OS 2.1 and higher (
Honeycomb).
Features and Performance
Honeycomb hits all the basic apps you'd expect from a
tablet.
This
feature is welcome, but we guarantee that first - time Android
Honeycomb tablet users will initially confuse the App Wheel with the Recent Apps button in the System bar.
The Toshiba Thrive is a
Honeycomb 3.1 (Android - based)
tablet that
features full - size USB and HDMI ports.
A new internal roadmap from Dell has been leaked
featuring new Android and Windows Phone 7 smartphones along with
Honeycomb tablets and the first sighting of a Windows 8 - based
tablet slated for next year.
Honeycomb 3.1 includes several new
features to improve the Web browsing and user experience for
tablets such as the Motorola Xoom.
But even if it's exactly the same as the Xoom and every other Android
Honeycomb in terms of power, performance,
features — this is the new Android
tablet to buy.
An unusual
feature for a
Honeycomb (Android 3.1)
tablet is that Lenovo has given its ThinkPad physical buttons, many of which essentially duplicate the virtual ones already present in the OS.
Worried that the
tablet - optimized version of Android,
Honeycomb, has
features your phone will never see the light of day of?
The
tablet features a 1.5 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, 7 inch 1024 × 600 capacitive display, 1.3 megapixel front facing camera for video calls, Android 2.2 with a future update to
Honeycomb planned, 32 GB internal memory with microSDHC slot, 5.0 megapixel camera with HD video capture and WiMax radio.
Widgets and App Menu: Just as with Android
Honeycomb tablets, the Galaxy Nexus
features interactive and resizable widgets which you can use to populate the five home screens.
Currently, the
tablets are
featuring the
Honeycomb operating system.
When added to other leaked information that the Amazon Hollywood could well be a quad - core
tablet featuring Android
Honeycomb, with access to Amazon Cloud Locker and the retail giant's own Appstore, Apple could have a decent battle on its hands.
Archos — Known for its myriad of personal media players, Archos says they will release a
Honeycomb tablet in June
featuring «disruptive 3G» (whatever this is).
The new Seesmic for Android 1.7 was released just a few minutes ago with all the new bug fixes,
features and also adds UI improvements for Android 3.0
Honeycomb tablets.
So after knocking off the iPhone and MacBook Air, Samsung's two
Honeycomb tablets will not only
feature similar slick form factors but will actually be thinner than the iPad 2 (by 0.01») and more competitive in price.