Of course, it's built specifically
with tablets in mind, but for those of us with large - screened phones, it's a great tool to have.
The Motorola Xoom was the first to offer a taste of Honeycomb — the Android 3.0 OS that's been developed with the larger screen sizes
of tablets in mind.
This guide was written with the 7 ″
Fire Tablet in mind, but some will also work on the Fire HD 8 and other Amazon tablets.
Yesterday Google unveiled Android 3.0, the first version of Android designed
with tablets in mind, and the Android Market Web Store, a web - based version of the Android Market that was previously only accessible from select Android phones and tablets.
It will be a pleasant change of pace to have a new operating system that had
tablets in mind.
Google is already pegging the XOOM as the showcase tablet for the Honeycomb, the first version of Android that has been developed with
tablets in mind.
This latest iteration of our news app was designed exclusively with
tablets in mind.
Sure there are programs out there like Zite, Pulse, and Google Currents, but they are designed with
tablets in mind.
The Asus Eee Pad Transformer runs Android 3.0 Honeycomb, the latest version of Google's tablet OS — and the first to be made specifically with
tablets in mind.
People ain't buying it and manufacturers ain't making it, even though Windows Store apps and large Live Tiles were created with
tablets in mind.
I had three
tablets in mind, the 8.9, the 10.1 and the iPad 2.
Like we've seen in bits before, Android 3.0 «Honeycomb» was designed with
tablets in mind.
The Android Market doesn't currently tell you whether an app's been lovingly crafted with
tablets in mind either, so finding the best apps involves a lot of experimentation.
The applications themselves are designed well, offer just the right amount of information for the increased screen size (this is no phone UI ported over, it was designed with
a tablet in mind), but they are terribly slow.
Being the flagship Honeycomb tablet, the Xoom having an unlockable bootloader will help developers test out applications made for
the tablet in mind.
Will you be investing in one or have you got
another tablet in mind?
Motorola's Xoom runs on Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) which is Google's first OS that's been designed specifically with
tablets in mind.
Instead of the Honeycomb version, which Google designed specifically with
tablets in mind, the Nova runs Android 2.3, an older version designed for smartphones.
So while maybe not developed with
tablets in mind, Froyo still performs like a champ in the speed department, which is to be expected.
While there are mobile elements in the SoCs of both systems - AMD's Jaguar cores were designed very much with
tablets in mind - the GPUs on both are desktop - class performance components with power draws to match.
AMD's Jaguar architecture was designed with low - end laptops and
tablets in mind - it's just that the ratio between power consumption and silicon die - space vs performance made it a good fit for the next - gen consoles.
Sound buffs will definitely want to keeps
these tablets in mind.