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Why phandroid?

To the best of my knowledge Android Honeycomb is still Android and is still designed around phones. Honeycomb, however, will support additional API's that are specific to the larger form factors of tablets. In my opinion it's not much different than Apple using IOS on iPads, iPhones, and iPod Touches
 
lordofthereef said:
I have seen the other vids. FWIW I don't think it has too much going on with the 3D background. That is more of a polish than a feature IMO. The informatio is still presented the same, just "prettier". Widgets can also have as little or as much in them as the writer cares to provide. I am certain widgets would not be the exact same between the different OSs. I guess I go back to the statement that the things you have listed doesn;t innately make the OS written for tablets and only tablets. Those things should be incredibly easy to alter in a phone version.

Allow me to use an example...
have you seen iOS on an iPhone versus the iPad? The version is the same, many/most of the features are the same, but the iPad version often has more information available at a glance (a good example off the top of my head is the web browser... however I have never owned an iPad so I am going from memory from videos). Since the iPad came out after iPhone, it is simple to think these things were just added in to the iPad version. To be quite frank, this sort of thing can also be thought of as being taken out. You mentioned the 3D UI. While I am by no means convinced that it is too busy for a cell phone version of the OS, if Google decides it is, they can simple remove it and keep the "old" one. I personally do not see that happening though.
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At the time I thought it was made for tablets ie what the motorola spokesman said at ces... And you didnt say anything about what I said concerning the nav. Buttons
 
That software buttons exist in no way precludes any vendor from excluding them on a device with hard buttons.

Nothing in THE Android UI is required, see Sense, Motoblur, Touchwiz.
 
EarlyMon said:
That software buttons exist in no way precludes any vendor from excluding them on a device with hard buttons.

Nothing in THE Android UI is required, see Sense, Motoblur, Touchwiz.
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I do believe too many choices will one day hurt android.

I Also just guess I dont understand why they would completely revamp the look of android since theyve been working for a long time to get it to look like this, then honeycomb comes along and they completely change it
 
We have to remember that Google is a software company embraced by phone makers because it helps them move their iron. Google has no control over the variegated embodimemts.

For us it means not being stuck with win, ios, symbian, rim, etc.

Do you use vanilla Android, and if so, what revision(s)?

I'd like to understand your point of reference to understand what this problem with change is, thanks.
 
ttdub said:
I do believe too many choices will one day hurt android.

I Also just guess I dont understand why they would completely revamp the look of android since theyve been working for a long time to get it to look like this, then honeycomb comes along and they completely change it
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Choices hurt android? Lack of choices hurt businesses, Look at Apple, marketshare dropping every quarter. If you take choice away it is no longer OPEN SOURCE, the true beauty of android.
 
ttdub said:
At the time I thought it was made for tablets ie what the motorola spokesman said at ces... And you didnt say anything about what I said concerning the nav. Buttons
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Again, what I had been saying all along, it can be disabled. I imagine the nav buttons are there so that hardware buttons are not REQUIRED. To be honest, I imagine something like this will be implemented on phones too. I wou;dn't mind going (almost) completely buttonless. My point is, everything you are talking about can easily be tweaked/changed/removed for a phone release. The gui isn't the core of the OS, but rather the part we, as users, interact with.

Another example...
How different is Sense, from Touchwiz, from Blur, from stock? They all can exist on 2.1, 2.2, etc. but provide a different (sometimes significantly) interface. Google can do much of the same between their phone and tablet versions of Honeycomb.
 
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