Full video from Google’s Honeycomb event now available

By on Feb 3, 2011 at 7:59 PM
Tablets February 3, 2011

Following Google’s Android 3.0 Honeycomb event on Wednesday, the Internet giant has made its full press conference available on YouTube. From start to finish, anxious Android fans can now relive all of the action — Cee-Lo appearance and all. Google had a sleek new Motorola XOOM on display for the demos during the presentation and it did a fantastic job showing off Google’s new tablet-only OS. From the new home screen and app-switcher UI to the revamped YouTube interface and the email application — Honeycomb appears to be much better suited for tablets than currently available versions of the OS, and Android fans are right to be excited. Hit the break for the full video from Google.

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  • Anonymous

    Pay Attention closely because the only thing that saved this “presentation” was the use of MacBook Pros.

    • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR6HpRLyzMY Walter Sobchak

      I thought it was the awkward ceelo video chat at the end that saved it.

      • Anonymous

        +1 sir and only because I can’t +2 you.

    • Ashley1969

      You obviously don’t like Android or Google, so why come and watch the video? I don’t have an iPhone, or an iPad, (but love playing with it with the kids in the shops) so I don’t go looking at the Apple videos. Don’t go watching the Google Android stuff, if all you gonna do is knock it.

      • numetheus

        He didn’t say anything about not liking Google products or Android. I have no idea how you conjured that out of his comment. I love Android phones, even though I have an iPhone and iPad. On release I am getting the Atrix and Xoom. So, I’m a tech lover in general so I watch all of these presentations. This one felt more awkward than the Apple or Microsoft ones. Usually, the part people are most interested in are the game demos. They usually get lots of clapping and such. In this video there were few claps compared to the ones from Apple and Microsoft. Overall, the people participating didn’t show as much interest in this, than they showed in the Apple or Microsoft presentation. This one did feel relatively awkward compared to the others. Should I keep away from viewing google stuff also because I agree with him? Even though I think Honeycomb will ultimately dethrone iPad? Or, are you just avaunt people having opinions that are different from your own?

  • Jroc869

    saw this earlier and i couldnt be more excited about honeycomb and the xoom. Google did the smartest thing by creating an os specific for tablets, just ask people who have the crapple Ipad aka gigantic Iphone.

    • Anonymous

      What makes it a Tablet OS exactly?

      • Jroc869

        well its built to take advantage of the space you get when you have a tablet sized screen. It also has the ability to make any app made for an android phone actually work properly unlike the ipad running a phone os. there are a bunch of other examples if you watch the video you might get a better idea.

      • Anonymous

        I am confused. I thought that those 60,000 dedicated iPad Apps were the big deal? From my understanding a computing devices is only as functional as the Software that is created for it’s use. But yeah, please explain these other things that make it a Tablet OS because so far we have.

        It allows you to use regular phone apps.

        To add to that I did see widgets in the video.

      • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR6HpRLyzMY Walter Sobchak

        Apps fragmented into panels so that what could be displayed in 2-4 subsequent screens on the phone OS can be displayed at once on the tablet.
        Expanded notification tray.
        Standard android buttons stay bottom left regardless of orientation, good for handing off without flipping.
        It’s hard to say since I haven’t ever seen a tablet OS, and my mind works in a destructive fashion, not creative. I break things down, not build them up.

  • Jsmith5549

    Interesting comment that was made…

    On honeycomb… An app thats been “designed to with recommended guide lines will work really well.”

    That’s a huge problem because not many apps follow the guidelines. Thus creating lots of glitches within the programs themselves. Because “open source” allows the tweaking it also allows for things to become highly unstable.

    This is also the reason that many phones are unable to upgrade from versions 2.1 to 2.2 and eventually 2.3
    It’s not the fault of Android itself as much as the “open source” which allows companies to put there own spin on making it impossible to get the upgrades.

    • numetheus

      I think you have no idea what open source is. Just because the Android OS is open source, it does not mean the software developers write are open source. Not all of Android is open source. Applications take advantage of API provided by google. Unless you are writing an app for a rooted device, you have to use live within the confines Google gives you. This means taking advantage of the API’s provided. Your comment about tweaks making things unstable makes no sense. Many phones are unable to move from one version to the next because the lack a feature the other ones require, or the manufacturers of the phone decide they don’t want to dedicate resources to upgrading it because they deem it too old and throw support to their newer devices. The first Android device on T-mobile was not upgradable because the area the OS resides in is not big enough. The hacking community though, was able to strip it down and upgrade it. This doesn’t mean HTC couldn’t do it. It just means they didn’t feel it necessary to support an older device. “Guidelines” have absolutely nothing to do with it. I don’t know the source of you’re information. But you should politely tell them you will get your information elsewhere.

  • Sonya

    This puts the iPad to shame.

    And save it Apple fanboys, I just ordered an iPhone on VZW.

    • Anonymous

      Sonya,

      It better put the iPad to shame, the iPad was announced a year ago. If this wasn’t better than the iPad then Motorola and Google would really be screwed. Of course depending on when this thing actually ships we may not see much time given to it. My guess is that the iPad2 will be two weeks behind this, at the latest.

      • Jroc869

        and in typical apple fashion they will have made the hardware better and will slap the same thing that have in there now as far as os goes in the new one. bravo

    • Anonymous

      Lol,

  • trewth

    the playbook multi-tasks much better and is more intuitive

    • TXCraig

      How long does the battery last on that Playbook?

  • Digitaltouch

    Have the iPhone 4 on att and waiting on the ipad2 but I think this tablet seems pretty cool. If apple don’t change it for the better I will move on. Let’s see

  • Anonymous

    Thanks for posting

  • Anonymous

    can his pants get any tighter

  • Alexander530

    I don’t see how this can be better than the ipad. I also see a lot of ipad imitation going on. Like the switching of the pages when reading a book. It looked just like ibooks. Their music album interface tries so hard to be original, yet is no match to the ipad’s coverflow. It’s graphics on games is not as impressive as the ones on the ipad’s. I’m not saying that it’s bad at all. I just don’t see honeycomb as an ios killer, but rather a decent alternative for the ipad. The next ios version for the Ipad2 will definitely have better offerings than this, plus, the first ipad can still take advantage of it.

    • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR6HpRLyzMY Walter Sobchak

      How should the pages turn? I didn’t know apple invented that method of page turning. When I read a book I rip out each page as i read it so as to not copy Apple.

  • Flacofromny

    wow even the google/android presentation are a short cheap copy of apple presentation..i was thinking they were gonna show Honeycomb but all they did was show the interface which look confused as fuck and show 3 google apps…Next time they show prepare a lil more before doing a presentation.

  • http://twitter.com/cmd_prompt DiskOperatingSystem

    Cool, Google is also behind Android too! It is great that Google gets behind a platform with a great future!

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