What’s New in Android 3.0 Honeycomb

by Antonio Wells Jan 27, 2011 10:30 AM – Leave your thoughts

What’s new in Android 3.0 Honeycomb? When Android 3.0, Honeycomb, debuts it will be a completely new experience for Android and it’s devices especially tablets! We’ve captured live video demos of the preview software in action on the Motorola XOOM. Here what’s new in Android 3.0 Honeycomb in an early preview:

Fresh New Design

Android 3.0 Honeycomb has been completely redesigned and accommodates well for larger screen devices such as tablets. Building on one of Android’s powerful features of multi-tasking; but enhancing on rich notifications, Home screen customization, widgets, tapping into rich graphics and media capabilities of the OS. Key improvements include:

System Bar: system-wide access quick access to notifications and system status.
Action Bar: within apps user will have access to contextual options, navigation, widgets, or other types of content.
Customizable Home Screen: default of 5 customizable home screens. Each screen offers a large grid that maintains spatial arrangement in all orientations as well as a Search box for universal search of apps, contacts, media files, web content, and more.
Recent Apps: shows a list of recently accessed apps to quickly jump between apps.
Redesigned keyboard: reshaped and repositioned for improved targeting and formatting for larger screen for quick text entry.
Improved Copy & Paste: press and hold text to pull sliders enable more accurate text selection. Especially useful for devices without trackball input.
New Connection Options: connect to other devices like digital cameras without USB mounting or attach USB and Bluetooth keyboards.
Updated Core Apps: Browser, Camera and Gallery, Contacts and Email are improved for more screen real estate.
- Browser includes tabbed browsing and incognito window for trackless web browsing.
- Camera and Gallery; the Camera app offers quick access to exposure, focus, flash, zoom, front-facing camera and Gallery app views albums in full screen.
- Contacts improved formatting of international phone numbers and improved presentation of contacts in card-like format.
- Email app uses new two-pane UI. The app lets users select one or more messages, then select an action from the Action Bar, such as moving them to a folder. Users can sync attachments for later viewing and keep track of email using a home screen Widget.