Google shows off Android 3.0, the 'Entirely for Tablet' Honeycomb (video)

Re:Google shows off Android 3.0, the 'Entirely for Tablet' H... by guelo on Wednesday January 05, 2011 @06:10PM (#2072978)

In order for a manufacturer to be able to include the Market on their device Google imposes a bunch of hardware restrictions. For Gingerbread the restrictions include

  - the size and density of the screen
  - it has to have a touchscreen
  - it has to have more than 128MB RAM and 150MB flash
  - it has to ship with a 1GB or greater sdcard installed
  - home, menu and back buttons required
  - all kinds of restrictions on the accelerometer,magnenometer, gps, gyro, etc
  - it has to have fast network capability
  - the camera has to be 2 megapixels or greater
  - it has to have USB

I don't see why they wouldn't be able to add a dual-core cpu as a requirement

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Re:Google shows off Android 3.0, the 'Entirely for Tablet' H... by Kylekramer on Wednesday January 05, 2011 @06:40PM (#2073078)

It is quite a jump from needing a pittance of RAM, touchscreen, connectivity, and a SD card to requiring a dual core. Android's model requires large market penetration, and requiring a dual core doesn't really make sense.

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Re:Google shows off Android 3.0, the 'Entirely for Tablet' H... by blinkingled on Wednesday January 05, 2011 @10:12PM (#2073731)

There's no hard minimum processor requirement for Honeycomb. Via http://twitter.com/#!/morrildl/status/22845294886518785

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Re:Google shows off Android 3.0, the 'Entirely for Tablet' H... by vetinari on Thursday January 06, 2011 @01:29PM (#2076481)

It was just LG caught with their pants down making up excuses, why don't they provide updates for current products.

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