Android 3.0 Preview

A sneak peek at Android 3.0, Honeycomb, the next version of the Android platform, designed from the ground up for devices with larger screen sizes, particularly tablets.

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Science & Technology

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• Google
• CES
• Android
• 3.0
• honeycomb
• preview
• tablet

[Intrdmnsion]

@bass2021 Android OS runs differently from iOS.

iOS was designed to stop ALL processes when there is something on the touch screen (ex. your finger). It basically dedicates all of the CPU to the touch screen when you're touching it, while Android chose to keep processes running instead of pausing them.

Go load an intensive web page on iOS. It may not be laggy, but you'll see that the screen literally "freezes" when you're scrolling through and iOS will load everything once you lift your finger

[bass2021]

@Intrdmnsion I couldnt agree with you more, I was replying to intrdmnsion who has a theory that once you touch the screen on IOS it reserves all the processing power to the touch interface. My old 3gs was as smooth as the 4s, this is a software issue and it must be a complicated code that google cant correct or get right. I cant believe for one minute they are not aware of it, they simply cant fix the problem.

[oldion100]

i see niga higa

[commercialsaremywife]

@ASDREX458 Honeycomb's been out for a really long time. It's actually obsolete now because it's been replaced with Ice Cream Sandwich

[ASDREX458]

I tried to google the release date , but didn;t get an answer... just this video :/

So what's the release date if anyone knows?

[JsCoolDart]

0:20- Death Ray hardware rev 2.0

lol

[NMaronick1]

Fcnmysvsh

[olynxmano]

@Intrdmnsion

My theory is that IOS doesn't really do Multitasking. I'ts some kind of IRQ triggered process handling. Linux could do this aswell... but such a "technique" needs the OS to be strongly limited to the user for security's sake.

[olynxmano]

@kawatzaki

Smells like, IOS isn't really doing Multitasking. It seems to handle "big interrupt routines" instead.

You'd only need to set the interrupt for the user interface higher than the "Multitasking" , and leave the Interrupt fast enough. Anything in "buffer" will not be disturbed, but the user will always see things running fluent then.

[Intrdmnsion]

@bass2021 I would be. An Apple has every right to destroy Android. All I was getting at was that if the two would fuse (in a perfect world), it'd be a perfect OS.

[bass2021]

@Intrdmnsion Im sure if you came up with a great product Idea you would be pissed if someone copied.

[Intrdmnsion]

@triskaye Not until Apple stops suing the competition for doing anything similar to what they did will we get another smooth mobile OS like iOS.

If Apple and Google would put aside their differences, it'd be a perfect world with the perfect OS. No more limitations imposed on the developers due to patents and such. All these patents and licensing limit what either OS can do; it's getting annoying.