On Jan 21, 1:23 pm, jpf <[email protected]> wrote: > On Friday, January 21, 2011 3:50:17 PM UTC+5:30, Karsten Silz wrote: > > > From the first Honeycomb videos on > > CES, it seems that "tablet Android" will be a lot different than > > "phone Android", > > Not true. Seehttp://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=904311 > andhttp://www.engadget.com/2011/01/07/exclusive-interview-googles-matias...
I had watched that video, and that's where I got the expression that there were a lot of changes. In the interview, Mr. Duarte talks about keeping the things that work and changing the things that don't. Examples for the latter were the keyboard and copy & paste (both somewhat addressed in Gingerbread, though copy&paste remain wildly different even among Google's own apps), the menu button (replaced by a "task bar" with most often used apps, probably similar to what iOS has used), going from hard buttons to soft buttons and changing how people experience multi-tasking. And then there's probably new tablet- only UI elements - split mail view, toolbars and such. Then I saw the preview video with the videos in the Youtube app looking like the top sites in Safari (rounded and not flat), so it all sounded like a lot of changes. iOS, on the other hand, just had split view controller, pop over controller and toolbars (and probably the keyboard changed for the bigger size), and that was it. But, now that I think again, there were more changes - the video app and the photo app don't use a list view anymore, but a grid / stacks instead. So I was probably wrong with assuming that there will be a lot of changes, and even if there are more changes than the original iPad had (compared to Gingerbread), I assume they will come to the phones, too. So let's just welcome the Android tablets and hope that Apple will work harder (I want my retina display iPad no later than April 2012!). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
