Honeycomb, who was mentioned as a tablet-friendly, is expected to be released at the Mobile World Congress, February 2011. Earlier this month, Andy Rubin, Google‘s vice president of Engineering, has been shown to the media about Honeycomb display on Motorola’s prototype tablet in conjunction with the official release Gingerbread or Android 2.3.
Android previous versions such as Eclair, Froyo, even Gingerbread did not tablet-ready so that has not been able to run applications that are downloaded from Android App Market optimally. Honeycomb release is just ahead of Android 3.0 makes public attention is now just switch on the new operating system.
While Gingerbread add communication features such as Near-Field Communications and SIP-based VoIP calls. ComScore noted, market share Linux-based Android is in third place in the category of mobile operating systems in the U.S. with 24 percent achievement.
With the release of Honeycomb, so vendors like Samsung which has sold Galaxy Tab as many as 1 million tablets manufacturing units and others can further maximize the Android operating system on their products. With Honeycomb, tablets Android confirmed to compete better with the iPad. Predicted, in 2012, Android will steal 39 percent in the tablet market, close to 44 percent iPad domination.
