honeycomb

Google is set to pull the wraps on Ice Cream Sandwich tonight, but a series of leaked screenshots already offer a peek at some of the redesigned widgets in the latest update to Android.

Snapped by someone known as Geek Vundotra and posted online by Android Police, the screenshots show what the Gmail, e-mail, and calendar widgets will apparently look like in the new Ice Cream Sandwich flavor.

The Gmail widget sports a somewhat cleaner interface compared with its Honeycomb counterpart, complete with a different and more readable screen font. The e-mail widget has been given the same coat of … Read more

Best Buy and Motorola announced today that the retail chain will sell a special edition of the Honeycomb-powered Xoom tablet.

Making its debut this coming Sunday, October 16, the Motorola Xoom Family Edition will be available exclusively through Best Buy and a limited-time $379.99 price tag. Specifications are nearly identical to the original Xoom, save for the software experience. … Read more

"Not another 7-inch tablet!" you say. Well, hold that thought and feast your eyes on the T-Mobile SpringBoard, first announced at CTIA.… Read more

If you're an Android Honeycomb tablet owner, you might be a little bit jealous about the official Facebook iPad app that was released a few days ago. There's no reason to feel like a second-class citizen, though. Here are three better ways to use Facebook on your Android tablet:

1. FriendCaster FriendCaster is an ad-supported app with a lot of features, including support for Pages and Check-Ins. The best part is, it's optimized for Android tablets. The Pro version removes ads and costs $4.99. Both the free and paid versions are available in the Android Market.… Read more

The U.S. carrier T-Mobile announced plans today to sell to two Android tablets with 4G networking abilities in coming weeks, its own 7-inch SpringBoard and Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1.

Each will come with the newest version of Google's tablet-oriented Honeycomb incarnation of the Android operating system, version 3.2, and will go on sale "in time for the holidays," the company said.

Samsung's 10.1-inch tablet first debuted months ago, but without 4G networking abilities. It's at the heart of a swirling collection of patent infringement lawsuits with Apple, whose iOS-powered iPad … Read more

As of today, Android owners running Honeycomb get to enjoy a tablet-optimized Google Docs app (download) featuring a better-functioning and better-looking three-panel view. With the enhanced tablet view, you can now navigate through filters and collections, view your documents list, and see document details all at once. What's more, the details panel on the right side of the screen gives you an instant thumbnail preview along with sharing and collaborator details before you even open the file.

The enhanced three-panel Google Docs is available now for download on devices running Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) and up.

After dipping its toes in the water with some limited-scope mobile apps, Adobe Systems is taking the plunge today with six programs for Android Honeycomb tablets, including the company's flagship brand, Photoshop.

The programs, each to debut in November with a $10 introductory price, fall under the new Adobe Touch Apps brand. And they tie in with the new Adobe Creative Cloud, a service for sharing files, finding services, and transferring works from the tablet apps to Adobe's Creative Suite apps running on traditional computers.

Along with Photoshop Touch, the other apps are Collage, Debut, Ideas, Kuler, and … Read more

It probably won't surprise you to know that the Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 ($469, 16GB) feels a whole lot like a smaller version of the Galaxy Tab 10.1. Scratch that--it feels exactly like a smaller Tab 10.1.

Still, it took a while for me to really accept the fact that Samsung went to all the trouble of making this ever-so-slightly smaller, just-slightly cheaper tablet, and neglected to throw in a single extra bell or whistle to help it stand out from the rest of the company's products.

I honestly can't understand why anyone wouldn'… Read more

Android users may have accidentally gotten their first peek at Ice Cream Sandwich.

A person who bought a Samsung Nexus S smartphone via eBay reportedly discovered that the device was running the upcoming version of the Android operating system instead of the current Android flavor, say the folks at Engadget.

Checking the firmware version numbers, Engadget said the phone seemed to be using the same baseband seen in previously leaked screenshots but had a newer build and kernel.

The buyer shot a two-minute video showing off the phone's interface and features. That video then found its way onto Engadget'… Read more