The Motorola XOOM checked a lot of boxes in the “first” category when it launched in February. It was the first tablet computer to ship with a 1 GHz NVIDIA Tegra 2 dual core processor. It was the first tablet to run Google Android 3.0 Honeycomb and the first to be updated to Android 3.1. […]
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Acer Iconia Tab A500 with Android 3.0 Honeycomb demoed on camera
The Acer Iconia Tab A500 is a 10 inch tablet which Acer has always said would run Google Android 3.0 Honeycomb one day. But for the past few months the company has been showing off the tablet with Google Android 2.x instead. Today the folks at Notebook Italia got a first look at the updated […]
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Google Android Honeycomb ported to the NOOKcolor: Doesn’t really work yet
The good news is that the first version of Google Android 3.0 Honeycomb has been ported to an existing Android tablet. Xda-developers forum member deeper-blue combined data from the preview SDK Google released this week with a kernel for the NOOKcolor eBook reader to get the software up and running on the tablet. The bad […]
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Google shows off Motorola Tablet, Android 3.0
Google Android 3.0 Honeycomb isn’t due out until next year, but Android boss Andy Rubin gave a sneak peek at the OS at D: Dive into Mobile last night. The operating system will be optimized to run not just on smartphones, but also on tablets with larger displays, and Rubin showed how the Gmail app […]
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Tablets sporting Google Android 3.0 Gingerbread to arrive in January?
Apple might not have shipped quite as many iPads this quarter as some analysts had expected, but with over 4 million units shipped, the product launch was clearly a success. It’s not really clear yet whether this proves that world is ready for more tablets… or just that an Apple tablet has proved to be […]