Google is now well-known for naming its Android OS updates after desserts… and also for publicizing well ahead of their eventual launch date. But things may getting a bit out of hand now. Today has seen the first glimpse at the latest version of Gingerbread, version 3.0 of Android – and it’s called Honeycomb. But getting info about 3.1 may be somewhat premature as Gingerbread isn’t even out yet.
What’s the story?
You can see our report on Gingerbread from earlier in the year, but here’s the short version:
- it’s not really aimed at the smartphone market; rather, it’s for tablet devices
- it will support only devices with the best screen resolutions and sizes, and high processor capabilities
- it won’t support the kind of User Interface overlays that HTC like so much (the Sense UI) or that Vodafone got in so much trouble for recently. It will come with an Android UI, and stay that way.
What’s Honeycomb like?
We don’t really know a lot about Gingerbread yet, and there’s precious few details on Honeycomb. But going on previous Android releases, version 3.1 will be a series of usability upgrades to 3.0. After all, Froyo wasn’t radically different from Ecliar, it just sort of tidied things up and added a new app or two.
What we think?
TechRadar originally got this information from several different sources, and was turned down when it contacted Google for more. I don’t want to sound like I’m disrespecting TechRadar, but I find it hard to believe that information escapes from Fort Google without them knowing about it.
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Umm, why are you still spreading that false rumor of Gingerbread’s minimum hardware specs? It was debunked since July: http://twitter.com/morrildl/status/17527838378
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