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Google will officially launch Android 3.0 Honeycomb on February 2nd

Written by Andre Yoskowitz @ 29 Jan 2011 1:58 User comments (7)

Google will officially launch Android 3.0 Honeycomb on February 2nd

Google has confirmed it will be officially launching Android 3.0 Honeycomb at a press event on February 2nd.
The company also unveiled the new logo for the operating system (pictured).

Android 3.0 is optimized for tablets and will first be seen on the Motorola Xoom, which should be available at the end of February.

The SDK for Honeycomb was released earlier in the week, which PCM says includes a UI framework for creating great apps for larger screen devices; high-performance 2D and 3D graphics; support for multicore processor architectures; rich multimedia; new types of connectivity; and enhancements for enterprise.

At least 5 Honeycomb tablets have already been promised for the Q1, although none have been priced yet.

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7 user comments

129.1.2011 08:18

another tablet....lets hope the specs are good :P

229.1.2011 09:37

Xoom is decent, has dual Tegra 2 chips with GPU too, so it should do well if you can get past the sticker price (about $700-800). Verizon is offering it subsidized at around $200 at last announcement, but that may change when they launch.

329.1.2011 14:10

Originally posted by blueboy09:
Xoom is decent, has dual Tegra 2 chips with GPU too, so it should do well if you can get past the sticker price (about $700-800). Verizon is offering it subsidized at around $200 at last announcement, but that may change when they launch.
Dual Tegra 2 chips or a dual core Tegra 2 chip?

429.1.2011 15:28

Originally posted by Joshewah:
Originally posted by blueboy09:
Xoom is decent, has dual Tegra 2 chips with GPU too, so it should do well if you can get past the sticker price (about $700-800). Verizon is offering it subsidized at around $200 at last announcement, but that may change when they launch.
Dual Tegra 2 chips or a dual core Tegra 2 chip?
Dual Core...dual tegra chips would just be madness lol

529.1.2011 16:15

All this sweetie goodness my teeth are starting to hurt.

Hahaha i think the dentist called it droid rott !!

61.2.2011 11:12

I really hope that phone makers that didn't want to do the work to go from 2.2 to 2.3 will go ahead and update to 3.0.

71.2.2011 13:08

Originally posted by IguanaC64:
I really hope that phone makers that didn't want to do the work to go from 2.2 to 2.3 will go ahead and update to 3.0.
I dont think any phone company will updates the phones to this mate its a tablet os not a phone os....!

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