Leaked Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) Preview...

Scotty #

Designed for tablet. Nothing spectacular in the video tbh...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-80QD5Zjyc

kenyard

i like the music though

Zascar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4NqT6u_ODk

Loads more videos here too: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Android+Honeycomb&aq=f

It's 'optimised' for tablets but the same os will be going on phones too apparently. It will just act differently depending on the size of the screen

lmimmfn

its stupid calling it Android 3, Google should just have called it Android 2.3 Tablet edition. Theres no split in the OS versions, tablets just need UI changes.

Squeeonline

lmimmfn wrote: »

its stupid calling it Android 3, Google should just have called it Android 2.3 Tablet edition. Theres no split in the OS versions, tablets just need UI changes.

Tablets will have more power in the future. Maybe google are anticipating driver changes or other changes that are drastic enough to require 3.0

calum

Scotty # wrote: »

Designed for tablet. Nothing spectacular in the video tbh...

It's certainly not pretty, but then again, neither is stock 2.x. I do wonder about Google's UX designers sometimes... with their resources they should be knocking it out the ballpark every time, but even a lot of their web apps make me cringe.

adrian522

lmimmfn wrote: »

its stupid calling it Android 3, Google should just have called it Android 2.3 Tablet edition. Theres no split in the OS versions, tablets just need UI changes.

How can you say its stupid when you don't really know what's in it.

Surely its not just a "Tablet Version" of Gingerbread(2.3).

At the very least it will be 2.4, but if there are significant changes it will be 3.0.

lmimmfn

adrian522 wrote: »

How can you say its stupid when you don't really know what's in it.

Surely its not just a "Tablet Version" of Gingerbread(2.3).

At the very least it will be 2.4, but if there are significant changes it will be 3.0.

no, its because the next version 3.0 is specifically aimed at tablets, whereas current 2.X is aimed at phones, all im saying is a better approach would be to split editions, make the next phone edition 3.0( but phone edition ) and the tabled edition 3.0 tablet edition. Its a major release but its main feature is tablet support and UI therefore its not a major phone release.

Kinetic^

I just wish they'd sort out the release structure for their updates. The whole staggered software updates due to the fragmented status of the hardware is beginning to piss me off.

Squeeonline

Kinetic^ wrote: »

I just wish they'd sort out the release structure for their updates. The whole staggered software updates due to the fragmented status of the hardware is beginning to piss me off.

They could force manufacturers to use the same hardware (at least processor) but then you are verging close on Apple, and reduce competition (i.e. between Samsung Hummingbird chip and Qualcomm snapdragon)

Zascar

Balls: http://www.omgandroid.com/android-3-0-not-coming-to-android-smartphones/
For Tablets only, not phones

Ste-

You just know someone will port it or some of the features to the phones.

Venom

Zascar wrote: »

Balls: http://www.omgandroid.com/android-3-0-not-coming-to-android-smartphones/
For Tablets only, not phones

It makes sense in a way to have a different OS on a tablet as from that demo the action/side bars while working great on a tablet would be very messy on the screen of a phone. I expect a redesigned version of honeycomb under a different name to come out for phones.

Ample Free ...?

Venom wrote: »

It makes sense in a way to have a different OS on a tablet as from that demo the action/side bars while working great on a tablet would be very messy on the screen of a phone. I expect a redesigned version of honeycomb under a different name to come out for phones.

Agreed. There was never going to be a direct port to phones given Honeycombs optimization for tablets. Matias Duarte made it clear at CES that Honeycomb was just for tablets but that it was also a fairly accurate depiction of where Android is heading in general. So it's fairly safe to assume that any major improvements, UI or otherwise, that don't directly rely on screen size will end up on phones too.