Author: Mehdi Rais, M.D.
Yesterday, Google released a sneak peak of their upcoming Android 3.0 platform, Honeycomb. This rendition of Android has a primary focus on the tablet experience through designing the UI on a larger screen interface. After having played with platforms 2.0 and 2.2 enabled android tablets, the collective experiences have come up short for me.
While both Android platforms were built around the mobile phone experience (which are brilliant in their own right), they just don't seem to shine versus the iPad experience for me. With that said, the gap in this fluid UI experience isn’t much between the two big players, and I have good reason to believe this release will even the playing field.
Among the promised improvements in the Honeycomb platform:
- Refined multi-tasking.
- Home screen customization with a new 3D experience and redesigned widgets that are richer and more interactive.
- Upgrades to the web browser (including tabbed browsing, form auto-fill, syncing with your Google Chrome bookmarks, and incognito mode for private browsing.)
- The latest Google Mobile innovations including Google Maps 5 with 3D interactions and offline reliability.
- Access to over 3 million Google eBooks, and Google Talk, which now allows you to video and voice chat with any other Google Talk enabled device (PC, tablet, etc.)
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