Cupcake, Donut, Eclair, Froyo, Gingerbread, Honeycomb, Ice Cream Sandwich. Yes, the next release of Android is going to be called Ice Cream Sandwich rather than Ice Cream, as the oversized statue of a bowl of ice cream would be indistinguishable from frozen yogurt on the Googleplex front lawn. Jason Kincaid from TechCrunch got it straight from the… Read more
Principal engineer of Android, Mike Cleron joined Motorola Chairman and CEO Sanjay Jha and Verizon’s Lowell McAdam on stage at the Verizon press conference at CES in Las Vegas today in order to show off Google’s tablet-optimized version of Android, Honeycomb. The ultra-powerful dual-core Xoom was used to demo the software, which is aesthetically… Read more
Our friend David over at TMoNews has received some information on Magenta’s plans for a few months from now, and while it can only be considered rumor at the moment, David does have a knack for getting accurate information before T-Mobile employees have it. The leak is as follows: LG’s Optimus 2X dual-core smartphone and their G-Slate Android tablet… Read more
Shortly after T-Mobile posted a quick video teasing the existence of their newest tablet, the LG G-Slate, they started posting individual “first look” videos on all of Honeycomb’s features. So far, they’ve posted videos for the browser, books, GTalk, GMail, and maps as well as another general look at the entire UI. As you’ve already seen from the… Read more
Not more than mere seconds after Motorola finished announcing the Xoom, T-Mobile hits up YouTube with news of a brand new Tablet of their own: The T-Mobile G-Slate with Google by LG. As of right now, not much is known about the G-Slate other than the fact that it will be running Honeycomb with HSPA+. The promotional video provided by Tmo is nothing… Read more
We knew it was coming and yet the thrill is not diminished. Motorola announced their upcoming Verizon Android tablet, Xoom at their CES press event tonight, and golly is it pretty. The 10″ tablet features a 1280 X 800 resolution display, 720p video capture with 1080p playback, all the standard wireless connectivity, and will launch in Q1 with Verizon… Read more
Begin update: Now that the Motorola Xoom is official, the original YouTube video featuring Honeycomb is back up (found below), along with some words from Andy Rubin at the Google Mobile Blog: “Honeycomb is the next version of the Android platform, designed from the ground up for devices with larger screen sizes, particularly tablets. We’ve spent a… Read more
Andy Rubin let loose some great information on upcoming products at the All Things D: Dive into Mobile conference last night. During his interview, he whipped out a dual-core Motorola tablet with NVidia 3D (no name was given, though Stingray seems a likely bet) and it was running Honeycomb, the next major Android release. Rubin used the slick tablet–sans… Read more
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