We talked about how the Honeycomb may mandate two processor cores and high resolution displays. This article looks at usability features that the Honeycomb brings you.. read the reference article for details, but here are highlights. The recent CES showed off a range of tablets based on the Android. The Android OS itself is undergoing improvements and the upcoming version 3.0 was shown off. Motorola has already announced a tablet based on the Honeycomb, the Xoom.
The desktop presented can be split into 5 different customizable screen. The desktop is being touted as a virtual, holographic user UI. Each of these could be named with whatever takes your fancy. Program, widget, apps icons available can be released onto these screens, multiple screens can be combined, it is up to the users to arrange the UI.
The browser has tabs now, forms auto fill, sync with Chrome bookmarks and even an incognito mode are features that have been brought into the Android browser.Full screen video calling is supported to other tablets as well as regular PCs.
eReader is a big feature that gives you access to the Google ebook library. That has some 3 million free books as well as the latest best sellers that you can buy. Google Maps 5 is going to be supported on the Honeycomb. Gmail and YouTube downloader have been integrated for the devices that will run this OS. Like many other manufacturers the Android is going to be supported by the Android marketplace that already has some 100,000 apps.
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