Android 3.0 Honeycomb shown off in new series of videos

Inreresting. I’m watching these from a Nexus S (2.3) and getting a message that they aren’t optimized for mobile. Is that ironic?

not feeling the UI at all with the back, home options button and the time in the lower bar, looks a mess and uncomfortable

Too many whiners. I think it looks great and definitely fully customizable.

I will have to decide what to get later this year when the various options are finally launched.

I think Google is off to a good start here but that’s about it! Google is releasing this in typical Google fashion; prematurely and half-baked. Don’t get me wrong I love all of the great new features however things do seem a bit scattered and poorly integrated. I know I’m gonna be flamed by the fandroids that don’t seem to care about a well integrated system or intuitiveness, partly because they generally tend to be more technologically inclined versus your average consumer and partly because they’ll blindly follow google and their god Eric schmidt just as fast as any so called Apple fanboy!(Oh the irony, I’ll save that for another post though!) I really think that Google would be better off pushing froyo or gingerbread for tablets right now. The reason I say that is that by all appearances it seems much more intuitive than honeycomb, at least for the average consumer, ya know the demographic that Google ought to be targeting. I love the cube feature, I have something very similar installed on my i4 and I think it’s a great aesthetic effect that I look forward to seeing in future releases of iOS. I do commend Google for differentiating their tablet version of android from the smartphone version, but as I said before things do seem to be all over the place. I’m sure things will improve vastly in the due course of time as is also typical Google fashion. The first release of android was IMO not close to ready for prime time but from then to Gingerbread they’ve made great strides. I look forward to the sorely needed improvements in the Google TV and also what’s in store for the Honeycomb-successor! Other than that I think they are off to a good start but there is certainly much work to be done ahead! Anyhow I would love a hands on but from what I can tell from what I see I don’t think that this will be an instant hit with consumers, honestly the Playbook, Froyo/GB tablets, anything upcoming from HPalm(if they don’t screw it up of course) and of course the iPad 2 will be far more successful, at least the immediate short term(~1-2yrs) than the current Honeycomb offerings (love it or hate it Apple has set the tone of what is coming and things to come, I would definitely love to see something new in iOS 5 for the iPad!) I think Apple really made a smart move with the iPad. While they were newcomers to the smartphone market, where they have arguably done quite well in a short period of time with one phone at a time, they were brilliant to bring a mobile OS to tablets. They understood that the potential demographic would use the device primarily for media consumption; ie. – video, music, photos, web, etc. Most mobile apps(on any platform) are not really geared towards content creation whereas the majority on a “full-featured” PC OS are generally geared towards creation, at least alot of them are! Anyhow it’ll be hard for Google to catch up as they are a year behind but as far business goes, being in the position they are in, they are very smart in allowing “fragmentation” to occur. Had that not been the case and if there were only a gPhone I doubt that Google would enjoy the success that they have! Anyhow just my 2 cents…

Wow, I just watched the first video and had no idea what was going on… It’s like dragging and dropping random things, into random spaces… Sry, but I’m digging the PlayBook OS far more than this.