Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Android 3.0 available in February

Google has not always even a set deadlines and roadmaps, but this time it should work: for February 2011 was 3.0 alias Android Honeycomb been promised, and old is not the month to release date. On Wednesday night, German time, the system will be officially presented. San Francisco / Hamburg - If Google puts the completion of the next version of the operating system Android closer.

Developers were now pre-release for the first time at CES, introduced software that will primarily offer better support for tablet computers to explore the new environment and test their applications to. In addition, it is on Wednesday night German time (from about 19 clock) give a press conference, in which details of the emerging operating system will be introduced officially.


Final Android 3.0 version has been expected in the coming weeks, it said in the Android Developers Blog from Google. The cut on the new class of a Tablet PC extends the capabilities of the previously specialized on mobile operating system into computer world. There, Google then has two operating systems at the start, for in-house competition basically takes Google Chrome.

Whether you run and how Honeycomb is also on smartphones is still unclear. Specific announcements, Google has not yet been made. It speaks, however, the evidence suggests that Android 3.0 will run on mobile phones, only it is to appear different from the tablets. It is expected that Tablet PC will be the big hit this year.

At the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas in early January showed already some companies Tablet computers, which are to run with Honeycomb. More will probably follow in the coming months. So far Android has been seen primarily as an operating system for smartphones - a market, the Android just roll up literally: almost one in three smart phone is currently shipping with it.

The new features of Android 3.0 is including a system tray at the bottom of the screen, the new messages and recently used apps and shows that can be used for navigation in the computer. Revised in the on-screen keyboard, which was now better adapted to the larger screen of the tablet. Tablets to use the honeycomb, can use a normal keyboard via USB - which is the iPad not possible - or Bluetooth to be connected.

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