With Honeycomb 3.1, Android finally offers support for USB keyboards, digital cameras
Summary: Via Honeycomb 3.1, Android now features USB support for MP3 players, digital cameras, keyboards, and game controllers.
Google announced today some major upgrades to Honeycomb, the latest version of Android.
Via Honeycomb 3.1, Android now features support for USB devices like MP3 players and digital cameras. This allows users to transfer music and photos directly to tablets rather than though computers.
Honeycomb 3.1 also expands the range of input options to USB keyboards and mice, allowing Android tablets to more closely mimic the capabilities of PC. USB-compatible game controllers like those of the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 are also supported, greatly expanding the control possibilities for Android games.
Android 3.1 also features expandable home screen widgets, improved Wi-Fi networking, and updates to Honeycomb's UI.
Android 3.1 will hit today, starting with Motorola's Xoom.
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Almost as bad as WP7 not having cut/paste. With the Chrome hacks, Skype
Honeycomb as dead as ChromeOS
But you keep bringing WP7 into stories about Google's slow downward spiral as a way to distract readers from the sad truth that Google is fading into irrelevancy.
but then what else did we expect from you. I guess your angry that people DO NOT want their companies bought by Google.
Groupons said "No", Nokia said "No", Skype said "NO", just to name a few.
And their new "music offereing"? LOL!
It's sad to watch Google die this slow death.
Billyboy: Google is not doing well against Apple on tablets, but, still no
Also, Google can not buy everything as there are others with deep pockets that are more desperate. Time will tell if WP7/Nokia amounts to anything. Nokia could not turn down over a billion dollars.
RE: With Honeycomb 3.1, Android finally offers support for USB keyboards, digital cameras
Here are some other successful products of theirs...
Google Translate
Google Sky
Google Talk IM
Google Earth
Google Maps
Blogger
Ad Sense
Google Chrome Browser
Youtube
Does this really seem like a company that is failing?
Sorry Donnieboy. At least we know the people in the Googleplex
are exercisizing regularly - throwing those chairs around all the time anymore! :)
Peter Perry, I'm refering to
things like -
ChromeOS
Honeycomb
Google Gears
Google Apps
Google Wave
Google Buzz
GoogleTV
WiFi Snooping
Google street View
and the things I mentioned above. Once was a time Google walked on water and anything they offered was a sucess.
But those times are changing, and Google is discontinuing alot of their "This Killer" or "That Killer" because their not killing anything.
Andoid is OK on a tablet, but they rushed Honeycomb out to replace it only to be half baked at best. ChromeOS the killer OS that wasn't? Granted they never saw tablets (the iPad) comming, so that kind of killed that idea.
Once was a time everybody wanted what Google offered, but now - not so much.
NetFlix, Amazon, iTunes, Zune Marketplace, Hulu, FaceBook - all doing what Google should have been doing, instead their arogance just put them at odds with copywrite owners around the world.
And they don't seem to feel the need to change.
Sorry Donnieboy. At least we know the people in the Googleplex
you sound like Loverock - related?
RE: With Honeycomb 3.1, Android finally offers support for USB keyboards, digital cameras
Thanks for the mention!
To be fair, WP7 finally has "cut/paste"
(Some phones got Froyo update only two weeks ago, year after this version's release in May of 2010.)
You are all enthusiast users...
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