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I will be curious to see how many tablet vendors actually have had access to 4.0, besides, of course, Motorola. 2.2 was released over a year ago? Damn. Last edited by kjk; 09-07-2011 at 09:00 PM. |
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Unless there is incompatibility. 4.0 is introducing a lot of changes, seeking to bring 2.x and 3.x together. 3.x (Honeycomb) is a fork from 2.x that sought to change much to make more usable for tablets, and 2.x (from Froyo and Gingerbread) was meant to be designed for lower end devices, or devices with smaller displays. Several new APIs are being introduced to further help this marriage, so developers can make one app that works equally well for both tablets and phones (unlike how Apple has iPad only versions of iOS apps). Due to the large amounts of changes, and new APIs meant to ease developer issues arising from tablets and phones, I foresee many apps being only compatible with Ice Cream Sandwich (4.0) and later.
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And to answer your question directly the first vendor to launch Android 4.0 will be Samsung. It doesn't seem like Google is stringent on who gets Android so long as they buy into the "Google Experience". |
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That would be problematic if Amazon wants their App Store to flourish beyond their own devices, for sure. Really curious now to see what they are up to!
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Doesn't seem wise for Amazon to fork android in a way that kept it stuck with outdated software. Guess we'll see. Also, if this info is primarily coming from that techcrunch article, I gotta take it with some salt. He didn't exactly exude confidence regarding the device's unseen particulars.
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Also, a curiosity sprung up out of this. The past couple days, I've been talking with a coworker about Velocity tablets, because they were wanting to get their wife one, and on Tuesday (and I believe yesterday), they had listings for various models on Best Buy's website. Last night he went and looked at Best Buy, and they had their T301s listed as $199, and when he asked them to do pricematching, they said it was no longer in the system and is now listed as a clearance item and so not subject to pricematching. This morning, after being told of this I look and it appears that all Velocity Cruz tablets have been removed.
Whether this is because the T408 and T410 was announced, or because they're dropping the entire Cruz line, I cannot say. I can only say that it seems odd to stop selling products from a company before the new line is actually available. The Cruz website still lists Best Buy as a partner selling the T301. |
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