Does anyone have inside info on whether the G Tablet will be getting Android 3.0 (aka Honeycomb)? I've done a lot of searching but I can't find any screenshots of what it may look like.
Considering Gingerbread isn't even out yet, I'm not surprised we haven't seen Honeycomb. But I bought this tab with the assumption that the hardware is bleeding edge enough that it will handle 3.0 just fine.
-=Sent from my ViewSonic G Tablet using Tapatalk=-
I think we are set up pretty well for Gingerbread and Honeycomb. Are the SDKs even avaiable for those yet?
The modding community will have software updates until Nvidia no longer supports Tegra 2. There will possibly be something within hours of it being available.
Now that Honeycomb is out and the Motorola Xoom release is just around the corner I am hoping that the possibility of getting Honeycomb on the G Tablet has improved.
Does anyone know if this is being worked on?
Honeycomb isnt out yet.
ryanmc2033 said:
Now that Honeycomb is out and the Motorola Xoom release is just around the corner I am hoping that the possibility of getting Honeycomb on the G Tablet has improved.
Does anyone know if this is being worked on?
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One of the reasons I went with the GTab over the Archos was I felt there was a better possibilty of it getting Honeycomb, even if it doesn't, it still works great with Froyo.
06LTNox said:
One of the reasons I went with the GTab over the Archos was I felt there was a better possibilty of it getting Honeycomb, even if it doesn't, it still works great with Froyo.
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I have both the Archos 101 and G tablet and I can tell you first hand that the G tablet is sooooo much better. Yes it's a bit larger and thicker and heavier but the build quality makes the Archos feel like junk. Mine is bowed with gaps in the middle of the screens frame and the screen is just horrible....... I've dealt with Archos crap for over 7 years and only stuck it out because of the DVR feature but now that that is gone I'm done with them and love my G tablet. looking forward to Honycomb.......
Has anyone started working on a Honeycomb for gTablet port?
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Has anyone started working on a Honeycomb for gTablet port?
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ohh, this will be fun to watch.
@kbelzowski: google decided to cancel honeycomb and instead focus on Ice Cream as the tablet OS for Android. Instead, we got icing on our gingerbread with a 2.3.3 update to GB for now. Long story short, no, we won't be getting Honeycomb on the Gtab... Likely late summer/fall for Ice Cream.
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Has anyone started working on a Honeycomb for gTablet port?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=11626690&postcount=5
roebeet said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=11626690&postcount=5
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Tee hee!
doctorde said:
@kbelzowski: google decided to cancel honeycomb and instead focus on Ice Cream as the tablet OS for Android. Instead, we got icing on our gingerbread with a 2.3.3 update to GB for now. Long story short, no, we won't be getting Honeycomb on the Gtab... Likely late summer/fall for Ice Cream.
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Please site your source.
Unconn said:
Please site your source.
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He's obviously mocking him.
Everyone, please don't reply to these "Honeycomb" threads so they'll stop bubbling to the top of the forum (and yes, I'm aware of the irony, but it's already at the top right now).
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He's obviously mocking him.
Everyone, please don't reply to these "Honeycomb" threads so they'll stop bubbling to the top of the forum (and yes, I'm aware of the irony, but it's already at the top right now).
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Ok, I won't!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=974522
Closing this thread - please everyone pay attention to the sticky about HC threads!
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Hi all,
The title says it all. Any response would be appreciated b4 I decide to buy this unit.
Thanks.
fab4272 said:
Hi all,
The title says it all. Any response would be appreciated b4 I decide to buy this unit.
Thanks.
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Hard to say but probably.
I wouldn't buy anything based on what it may be able to do . Buy it because it does what you want now. There is no guarantee it will ever be any better than it is now..
Maybe, but Sprdtyf350 has it exactly right. Buy it if you like what it does today. TnT Lite and the other custom roms have some pretty cool functionality already and for me that is half the fun of having an android tablet. If that wasn't my interest, I would probably get an ipad.
This G-tablet has an amazing amount of support from the Android community here and elsewhere.
I think it is a safe bet it will be supported, at least as a custom ROM from the community here, the hardware is quite advanced.
fab4272 said:
Hi all,
The title says it all. Any response would be appreciated b4 I decide to buy this unit.
Thanks.
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There's no way to tell for sure 'officially'. I don't believe in promises and I don't believe in updates until they're hitting my device. As others have mentioned I'm sure it will get strong support from the devs here on XDA.
Personally, I think VS will also support it pretty far into 2011 - they would be stupid not to. If you take a look at all the stuff coming in Q1 2011, they are all based on very similar 'guts' as the G Tablet, in other words there's really no reason the G Tablet can't stay 100% competitive with/against all the new stuff coming, if VS keeps the software current and as bug free as possible.
The good news for us is, even if VS doesn't....we'll still have all these ROMs based on the plethora of tablets running on similar guts as the G Tablet coming out. Sort of a win-win and exactly why I decided to keep mine. The only thing you really have to worry about is shoddy/faulty hardware which it doesn't look like the device suffers from in excess.
android 3.0 on gtablet??
Hey Guys,
it's almost a month that I haven't heard from you about the chance to get android 3.0 installed on gtablet.
Any news about it?
Thanks in advance
Alex
ralex76 said:
Hey Guys,
it's almost a month that I haven't heard from you about the chance to get android 3.0 installed on gtablet.
Any news about it?
Thanks in advance
Alex
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No as can been seen by the general lack of honeycomb issues thread.
ralex76 said:
Hey Guys,
it's almost a month that I haven't heard from you about the chance to get android 3.0 installed on gtablet.
Any news about it?
Thanks in advance
Alex
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When honeycomb is released the GTab will get honeycomb. At this time no one has honeycomb. And yes I'm including the sdk emulator port on the Nook. That is not a working version of honeycomb just the emulator running on an sdcard. The GTab has all the same hardware as every other Honeycomb tab being released so it will probably get a port of honeycomb
today is the prerelease of the xoom and in a week it is its release. lets see how much it takes to have the honeycomb.
No pressure, no pressure.....
Someone get us a Xoom nvflash dump and I bet we'll see a GTAB port.
What will be the name of the honeycomb port? Gcomb?
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What will be the name of the honeycomb port? Gcomb?
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Haven't even THOUGHT of that, yet! Hmmm.... hTABLET seems appropriate.
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Haven't even THOUGHT of that, yet! Hmmm.... hTABLET seems appropriate.
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I'm thinkin......
HONEYTAB!
tekrhino said:
I'm thinkin......
HONEYTAB!
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I think we have a winner!
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I think we have a winner!
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+1 on the HoneyTab!
+2 HoneyTab
I was going to say Honey Clone.
+3 HoneyTab!
G-oneycomb? (pronounced Gunney-comb)
So, Nvidia isn't going to release a os image themselves?
This is pretty awesome, XDA never ceases to amaze me! I'm sure it's running pretty slow though right now. Can't wait to have it running on the Gtab
http://phandroid.com/2011/01/28/someone-got-honeycomb-running-on-the-nookcolor/
Here's the article that jwischka was talking about below from Engadget. I was thinking that Honeycomb would support both tablets and smartphones and different screen resolutions since in the video where Andy Rubin showed off the Motorola Tablet, he let it slip that Honeycomb "sort of is and sort of isn't" for phones.
http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/28/android-3-0-honeycomb-emulator-has-traces-of-smartphone-support/
Very nice.
Also some indication today that there will be smartphone support, albeit with a reduced featureset. Hopefully this does not mean our screen resolution will exclude us from tablet Honeycomb.
Can't post the link to engadget because I'm new... but the article is worth the quick read.
Hah i just took my nook color back today and ordered a gtab I need a 10" screen though. But i had mine running at 1.1ghz very stable adn VERY snappy.
We don't even have proper hardware acceleration for Gingerbread yet and we're talking about Honeycomb SDK ports - ugh. Come on NVidia, snap to with the drivers!
I'm going to assume nvidia must have some compatible drivers for the tegra 2 for honeycomb already or else the xoom us going to be hobbled out of the box when it comes out
Can't wait for honeycomb!
Honeycomb will be officially unveiled on February 2 -
http://gizmodo.com/5746288/google-w...id-30++also-known-as-honeycomb++on-february-2
Any bets on how late in Feb we see a G-Tablet port? More to the point, hopefully that will mean an influx of apps that now can take advantage of the full Tegra - a good video player would be high on my list, though a good photo editor would be a close second.
Has anyone ported the keyboard yet?? I wanna try that out so bad lol
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Honeycomb will be officially unveiled on February 2 -
http://gizmodo.com/5746288/google-w...id-30++also-known-as-honeycomb++on-february-2
Any bets on how late in Feb we see a G-Tablet port? More to the point, hopefully that will mean an influx of apps that now can take advantage of the full Tegra - a good video player would be high on my list, though a good photo editor would be a close second.
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We have a semi-solid gingerbread rom less than 2 months after its release. I would imagine it will be a bit quicker, given the similarities between the internal hardware between the G tab and the various new Terga processor tablets that are coming out, but who knows.
I suspect in the end it will come down to how much effort the devs want to put into making things work for the G tab. With 2 groups of people working on their own roms (Vegan and Cyanogen), I am not sure they'll drop what they're doing to work on a stock honeycomb release.
Hope I'm wrong though.
I would imagine that Roebeet with his TNT lite Roms will have a working Honeycomb as soon as VS team releases their bloatware version.
I am hoping that this is the OTA update that VS hinted at earlier this month.
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I would imagine that Roebeet with his TNT lite Roms will have a working Honeycomb as soon as VS team releases their bloatware version.
I am hoping that this is the OTA update that VS hinted at earlier this month.
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Oh let's hope we have something much faster than waiting for VS.
For an unbias view and ease of applying apps and roms and ease of having apps work properly, which would be best to get? NookColor or a GTab
the screen difference isnt that much of a main concern really
jerichoholic said:
For an unbias view and ease of applying apps and roms and ease of having apps work properly, which would be best to get? NookColor or a GTab
the screen difference isnt that much of a main concern really
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I think that the g-tab has the better hardware (not certain tho). That would be more important i would think.
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jerichoholic said:
For an unbias view and ease of applying apps and roms and ease of having apps work properly, which would be best to get? NookColor or a GTab
the screen difference isnt that much of a main concern really
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If the screen isn't an issue, the only answer is the GTab. The hardware specs are better, and nothing about it is locked - you can have a custom rom on the device in less than 5 minutes. It takes longer to download the roms from the internet than it does to put them on the device. This isn't something that's common among devices - often hardware manufacturers lock the bootloader down and make it tricky for users to install custom software - the original root procedure on the EVO required using adb and was far from straightforward, if you weren't technically inclined. By contrast, installation for the GTab involves unzipping a file onto the internal memory and rebooting (slightly more complicated than that, but not much).
I don't know the process on the Nook, but I can't imagine it's simpler than the GTab. The Nook is a proprietary book reader, and B&N is selling them so that you'll buy books and read them - not so you'll hack it into a tablet. They've probably put quite a bit more thought (and if they haven't yet, they're almost certainly about to) into locking the device down.
The main issue with the GTab is the screen. Other than that, it's honestly a very nice piece of hardware, and one that you can be happy with.
Engadget now has a video of it running on the Nookcolor with hardware acceleration. It's so smooth, but there's like no apps i guess since it was built from the SDK preview.
http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/30/android-honeycomb-port-for-nook-color-gets-graphics-acceleration/
Not only that but if you follow the link to the source you see this...
graphics acceleration more or less working. The SGX driver seems too old for some buffer request of android 3.0, so right now the statusbar is invisible but still functional. Not sure if I can fix that or have to wait for the AOSP release.
What is not working... pretty much everything else, no accelerometer, no wlan, no sound.
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Engadget now has a video of it running on the Nookcolor with hardware acceleration. It's so smooth, but there's like no apps i guess since it was built from the SDK preview.
http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/30/android-honeycomb-port-for-nook-color-gets-graphics-acceleration/
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http://phandroid.com/2011/04/14/nvidia-clears-up-tegra-confusion-no-devices-left-behind-pr-blunders/
http://briefmobile.com/nvidia-to-continue-support-on-all-tegra-devices-until-oems-drop-support
It looks like we might have jumped the gun on assuming no more support from NVidia. They have since come back and basically said they are continuing to support the hardware as far as the Manufacturer wants to go. So now it's on Viewsonic to bring us that sweet honeycomb. Additionally they stated that they are going to be helping out the developer community!!! This great news! So we should be seeing some great stuff coming!
"Finally, while we cannot support or give out third party peripheral drivers or provide the Android 3.0 source before Google does, we do want to explore whether we can assist the open source ROM makers. We will be reaching out to them today." - From official statement from NVidia on 4/13/2011
I was reading the phandroid article while I was on the can today, and it was a relief, although I kind of figured that Nvidia wasn't going to entirely cut the plug on the harmony line. Hopefully one of the manufacturers opts to support the harmony line.
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I was reading the phandroid article while I was on the can today, and it was a relief, although I kind of figured that Nvidia wasn't going to entirely cut the plug on the harmony line. Hopefully one of the manufacturers opts to support the harmony line.
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Double relief? Bonus!
when do we get the drivers for Gingerbread?
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when do we get the drivers for Gingerbread?
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Who knows, the bigger question would be, "when is Google planning on releasing Honeycomb source code.. if ever"
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Who knows, the bigger question would be, "when is Google planning on releasing Gingerbread source code.. if ever"
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Umm, gingerbread source has been released for MONTHS now. I am guessing you mean Honeycomb?
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Who knows, the bigger question would be, "when is Google planning on releasing Gingerbread source code.. if ever"
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gingerbread has been released for months, but no driver for our chipset from Nvidia. I am worried bout getting Gingerbread fixed, and get them to agree on Honeycomb.
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gingerbread has been released for months, but no driver for our chipset from Nvidia. I am worried bout getting Gingerbread fixed, and get them to agree on Honeycomb.
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I agree.. Lets try to get a fully stable gingerbread 2.3 OS and get everyone updated to 2.3 and then while we play with 2.3 the devs can play and get the honeycomb on the way.
Good news indeed. I just bought one and was facing a dismal reality of having bought something that was already obsolete.
Yet they are slashing prices like crazy eddie
They may be supporting it, but amazon.com just released the Gtab on sale for 300 and office depot....
If people keep buying them up, then i hope the love and support continues...
I love my gtab. and nook color
I love my droid1, which incidently is going to be retired for an LG Optimus V , but only bc I find i use my tablets way more now, so i dont feel the need for a 4 inch monster phone. and I am going to try and make it work with a $40 a month Virgin mobile 1200 minute plan...
Sam
It is all in Viewsonics hands now. As long as Viewsonic keeps developing releases for the G-tablet, Nvidia will make drivers for it.
I am still not very convinced that they are going to support it. I think they are just trying to quiet us down a little by making that statement.
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They may be supporting it, but amazon.com just released the Gtab on sale for 300 and office depot....
If people keep buying them up, then i hope the love and support continues...
I love my gtab. and nook color
I love my droid1, which incidently is going to be retired for an LG Optimus V , but only bc I find i use my tablets way more now, so i dont feel the need for a 4 inch monster phone. and I am going to try and make it work with a $40 a month Virgin mobile 1200 minute plan...
Sam
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2 points for the Crazy Eddie reference.
Maybe people will see there is a market for a sub $300 tablet since these and the nook color's are flying off the virtual shelves.
I've debating going to tablet/dumb phone. I gave up on smart phones for a while and went PDA/dumb phone. But that ended when I got a Treo.
Maybe an LTE Xoom and a cheapo phone is a better idea in the long run, let me price that out...
Does anyone think that maybe this a little early to rejoice yet?
I've read the articles, and my interpretation is damage control.
Both companies (Viewsonic and Nvidia) are claiming to stand by their products with one side of the mouth while contridicting it with the other. Viewsonic said it would continue to support the G tab, but due to complication and other factors doesn't know for sure whether it can get get any more updates. Nvidia is claiming to still support harmony as well as manufaturers do, but Viewsonic (a manufaturer) is claiming it isn't getting any support from nvidia. Plus the fact that other then viewsonic's name it, they haven't had anything to do with development with the G tab to date. (Rebranded a Malata Z Pad and paid TNT to supply the OS).
I for one will be seriously suprised if we can get Gingerbread drivers and figure HC may get to to where Gingerbread is now (working, no hardware acceleration) once AOSP is released.
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I was reading the phandroid article while I was on the can today, and it was a relief, although I kind of figured that Nvidia wasn't going to entirely cut the plug on the harmony line. Hopefully one of the manufacturers opts to support the harmony line.
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What was the relief? The article or the cannage?
I have a feeling at the end it will be a finger pointing situation, with both manufactures blaming each other on not producing a thing. We will be entirely forgotten as soon as the next generation is out.
Hmm... let's hope we can get 3.0 for sure.
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I am still not very convinced that they are going to support it. I think they are just trying to quiet us down a little by making that statement.
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I agree.
The uproar brought by us (somewhat rabid) fans probably made the PR guys get a little quivery at the potential backlash being "hinted" at.
I'll believe this so-called continued support when I load it on my Gtab. I don't know of any real confirmation from Viewsonic that they are working on a Gingerbread release, let alone Honeycomb.
I'm sure there will be more than a few people here that will continue to talk to VS to make sure we are not forgotten. Props to tunnel visioned g tab lovers!
I'm still not sold on the whole "we must wait on Google..." excuse. That may wash for Honeycomb, but what about Gingerbread?
I got sick of youtubing honeycomb videos and decided to try out the desire hd honeycomb sdk port - guess what? It workes on inspire too. At least it works as well as it does on desire
I found a working link to the rom http://www.r2doesinc.bitsurge.net/OMHC-port-desirehd.zip
Here is the desire hd thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=958391
Be sure to have your copy of android revolution / cm7 / whatever on your sd card for reverting to it when you're done. (volume rocker down and power to get back to recovery) This rom has no data access. But it's a neat way to check out the ui for now. It runs surprisingly fast considering it's origins.
I just wanted to stick this where more inspire users might see it and confirm that it works, I am not the developer.
I'm still really confused why people want to run a tablet fork of Android on their phones.
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I'm still really confused why people want to run a tablet fork of Android on their phones.
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Why not? That is the true question.
helushune said:
I'm still really confused why people want to run a tablet fork of Android on their phones.
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Try it out the interface is wonderful maybe then you'll see
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Try it out the interface is wonderful maybe then you'll see
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Still, doesn't make any sense to me. Especially when they've made it fairly clear 3.x is for tablets, 2.x is for phones. A bigger number in front doesn't always mean it's better. Not trying to start a flame war, just trying to understand.
It's highly buggy. Have tried this on a few phones.
Maybe google will come out with a phone version and simply name it something else.
Honeycomb was written specifically for tablets. Not a lot of that is easily ported to any phone.
Read xoom forums. Even it has its issues.
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Still, doesn't make any sense to me. Especially when they've made it fairly clear 3.x is for tablets, 2.x is for phones. A bigger number in front doesn't always mean it's better. Not trying to start a flame war, just trying to understand.
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We do it to do it... to say we done it... to prove we can do it... plan simple and to the point
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It's highly buggy. Have tried this on a few phones.
Maybe google will come out with a phone version and simply name it something else.
Honeycomb was written specifically for tablets. Not a lot of that is easily ported to any phone.
Read xoom forums. Even it has its issues.
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ummm isn't 2.4 Honeycomb for phones? thought i seen that somewhere.and 3.0 is for tablets specifically
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ummm isn't 2.4 Honeycomb for phones? thought i seen that somewhere.and 3.0 is for tablets specifically
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2.4 is Gingerbread.
With
Dual core support and hopefully some bug fixes.
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im with the why not crowd.. but i would think problems would arrise from the fact that the tablet has higher pixel count and surface area. But ill prolly try this out before tomuch longer.. maybe someone will make a custom rom to runn better on the phones.. Overclock the cpu and it would help with processing what is supposed to run on 2 cores.. but then again you got the extra gpu cores that he nividia chipset uses.. Sooo.. but on tiger and newegg you can get a low priced nividia powered tablets for 300 to 349. not that much money if you can save up and skip the bar for a month.
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im with the why not crowd.. but i would think problems would arrise from the fact that the tablet has higher pixel count and surface area. But ill prolly try this out before tomuch longer.. maybe someone will make a custom rom to runn better on the phones.. Overclock the cpu and it would help with processing what is supposed to run on 2 cores.. but then again you got the extra gpu cores that he nividia chipset uses.. Sooo.. but on tiger and newegg you can get a low priced nividia powered tablets for 300 to 349. not that much money if you can save up and skip the bar for a month.
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Honestly, I'd just grab a ViewSonic G-Tablet and wait for a port. Woot's tempted me a few times now with dropping them down to $260.
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Honestly, I'd just grab a ViewSonic G-Tablet and wait for a port. Woot's tempted me a few times now with dropping them down to $260.
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That's what I did.
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I'll give it a shot...THanks!!!
Ice Cream Sandwich (still not used to the new name) will be the honeycomb+gingerbread mash up for phones. But seriously this is XDA we can do anything. If we had source code there would be honeycomb phone roms popping up left and right with phone apps pulled from gingerbread. The size of the interface can be scaled for lower resolution phones. It can work. For those of us with wives that cant go out and spend money on a tablet without first spending more money on jewelry to bribe with - this rom is a neat way to peek at the latest hotness.
Let see how fast ASUS can turn around for updates compared to a developer device. Let's hope it's faster than HTC.
Xoom is getting 3.1 update today
http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/10/live-from-google-i-o-2011s-opening-keynote/
Yep, I found that interesting as well. Most interesting is that Verizon Xooms were specified--what does that mean for wifi-only Xooms like the one sitting on my desk at home?
This is gong to be interesting. Given how quickly Asus has been updating the TF, I'm very hopeful that we'll get 3.1 soon. That will, of course, be the measure of how well we can expect these things to be supported going forward.
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I am very optimistic that it will be soon. I don't see why there should be a delay. ASUS has been OK with updates so far and there is not that big a difference between the two devices, right? I mean, the TF also uses Android 3.0.1 with some modified kernel and widgets... But what do I know
The expanded support for USB devices is making me wish it had a usb port now.
HTC has to update Sense for every update. Asus should have a quicker turnaround. Motorola also has a custom UI. That said, if Motorola is releasing now, it means it had 3.1 in its hands for a while. I assume Asus has had it for a while, too.
Let's hope ASUS has the update in a day or so.
I regret getting rid of my Xoom... I do hope we get it soon..
We won't be able to use an Xbox 360 controller on the Transformer, though, right? Like they previewed with the xoom..
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I regret getting rid of my Xoom... I do hope we get it soon..
We won't be able to use an Xbox 360 controller on the Transformer, though, right? Like they previewed with the xoom..
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Why wouldn't we. You'd just need hte dock most likely which actually makes it even better.
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I regret getting rid of my Xoom... I do hope we get it soon..
We won't be able to use an Xbox 360 controller on the Transformer, though, right? Like they previewed with the xoom..
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The dock has USB ports.
Google movies has HD items. I wonder if 3.1 works better with HD playback on all these Tegra 2 devices?
Finally Google has some guidelines for updates.
Google io livestream http://www.youtube.com/user/GoogleDevelopers
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Finally Google has some guidelines for updates.
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Asus wasn't on that list of partners who are on board though
We'll see.
UReally glad to see Google implementing guidlines for updates. Some manfacturers and particularly carries are truly awful in this regard.
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Asus wasn't on that list of partners who are on board though
We'll see.
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That was meant alot more for contract devices mainly phones and tablets with 3g connections.
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The expanded support for USB devices is making me wish it had a usb port now.
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I am feeling the same... It would be nice not to HAVE to purchase a dock for a usb port...perhaps it will work with an adapter.
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Asus wasn't on that list of partners who are on board though
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The fact that they have honeycomb on the TF indicates they have some sort of partnership with google since the source isn't available. Also, Asus is brand new to android. They don't make phones, and all those partners are either carriers and phone makers.
You should see my thread here about how they specifically mentioned "convertible laptop" support in Ice Cream Sandwich. They even showed a picture of the TF. I'm sure they are already working with the Asus and the TF for Ice Cream Sandwich.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1072587
Segnaro said:
Finally Google has some guidelines for updates.
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Guidelines are nice and all but delaying 3.1 for Xoom Wifi owners isn't exactly a good sign. actions > words
timtlm said:
The fact that they have honeycomb on the TF indicates they have some sort of partnership with google since the source isn't available. Also, Asus is brand new to android. They don't make phones, and all those partners are either carriers and phone makers.
You should see my thread here about how they specifically mentioned "convertible laptop" support in Ice Cream Sandwich. They even showed a picture of the TF. I'm sure they are already working with the Asus and the TF for Ice Cream Sandwich.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1072587
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I stand corrected, they're giving away a Samsung 10.1 tab. to very conference attendee
Jeez, that's the first bit of good news I've heard about Xoom in months...
I am jealous! C'mon, Asus! At least let me use my dock doorstop soon.
Geekbabe said:
I'm watching the Google io livestream and they're featuring the Transformer now! we'll be getting 3.1 over the next couple weeks! Oh and Samsung gave 5,000 units to those at the io!
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Sweet. Can't get the live video at work, so I'm watching Engadget's live blog. Slightly behind