Comments on: Android This Week: Honeycomb Smartphones; PSP Games; Custom Tablet ROMs

By: Honeycomb: What You Need to Know (It’s Not Just For Tablets): Mobile Technology News «

Wed, 02 Feb 2011 23:03:54 +0000

[...] But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be interested in what Google presented today because the “Is it for tablets, smartphones or both?” question has more of an answer now. Hugo Barra, Google’s Director of Mobile Products, told us that while Honeycomb is Google’s touch and tablet OS, the company will be working to bring it to mobile phones. For now, it’s highly optimized specifically for tablets and no phone-specific details were shared, although we’ve seen smartphone resolution support in the Honeycomb SDK. [...]

By: Kevin C. Tofel

Kevin C. Tofel — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 16:49:18 +0000

I don’t disagree with you, HG, but I think the time to do that may be past. Google might have been better off to have some control in the beginning: that may have limited the fast growth of Android, but in the long-run could have been more beneficial.

By: HG

HG — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 21:45:13 +0000

I’m still hoping that Google would put some kind of stop on how much OEM’s can modify the devices, so that users are able to do more and not have to go through a lot of hoops to get the device working better. Example the Nexus One was a great device to do custom ROMs. I don’t think I will be seeing to many for the Sprint GT. I know that it can be tempting, installing a new ROM before a business trip. :-) but looks like you broke that cardinal rule. Will be looking for your progress on your GT.