Dan Morrill: No hard processor requirement for Android 3.0

By on Jan 7, 2011 at 1:32 AM
Software January 7, 2011

If you’re not rocking a dual-core Android tablet, you can breath a sigh of relief. Earlier this week, the Internet was aflutter with rumors that Google’s tablet-optimized, Android-build — Honeycomb (Android 3.0) — would require, at minimum, a dual-core processor. Google’s very own Dan Morrill has taken to Twitter to kindly dispel the aforementioned myth. “Random note: there’s no hard minimum processor requirement for Honeycomb,” reads the tweet. “Trust me, if there were I’d know.” So there you have it.

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  • Anonymous

    who is this guy? I don’t know too much about the inner circle of google?

  • Anonymous

    There is, however, an “OEM must prepare and push the update” requirement, which thus far has played a much greater role in the OS version a device runs than any pesky hardware requirements. As a result, when Samsung opts not to update the Galaxy Tab to 3.0 it will hurt even more because its users will know that their hardware has nothing to do with the device being stuck on 2.3.

    • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=545634778 Alan Paone

      As if they’re going to update it to 2.3….

  • Mgl323

    Like the carriers are gonna listen to this guy.

  • 1T2dirtnap

    Dan Morrill is the man when it comes to anything Android. If it’s Android related he knows all. He also deals with the Google web toolkit.

  • Anonymous

    Who cares where it came from but if it true then look forward to some really crappy hardware in the low end. Nothing like having a decent OS running on basement hardware to give your platform a bad name, Google should state base specs for consumer satisfaction.

  • numetheus

    Not setting a standard for hardware will only keep fragmentation of Android where it’s at and not improve things. At the same time you will have new single core, dual core, and processors of various capabilities across different phones with different price points. If a developer was to create an awesome application to take full advantage of the hardware, what would they develop for? Most probably won’t develop for the upper end dual cores because they would lose out on the other half of the market, so most likely they will write for the lower end. Or there will be titles made for Android 2 core devices, other apps made for one core and above, and another set for lower end budget Android phones. This is not good. On iOS side of things it’s all the same. You only have the current generation and the older one. But not new phones released with wildly different specs. Apple got a lot of things wrong, but the fact there is only one set of hardware is what they got right. Developers can write apps to take full advantage of the upper end hardware. The only difference are people with older devices. And in that case, it’s common understanding that old crap doesn’t run new titles.

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