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Its been a week since the firestorm, getting CM7 working this fast is already impressive enough. I have no doubts Honeycomb will be soon. I don't see any diff

Its been a week since the firestorm, getting CM7 working this fast is already impressive enough. I have no doubts Honeycomb will be soon. I don't see any difference with running Android 2.3 vs webos. I find webos inferior in browsing experience, apps, localization, customization and ability in general. Webos is slick and polished, but not even close to what Android can do. I'm very much looking forward to getting Android on my tablet.

pilif 15y ago
> Its been a week since the firestorm, getting CM7 working this fast is already impressive enough. I have no doubts Honeycomb will be soon. Unfortunately Not. Honeycomb is closed source (aside if the kernel) and only available to a few OEMs. Google maintains that it's just not ready for public release, but that was nearly a year ago now, so I wouldn't be surprised if Gingerbread was the last public release. Even more so with the recent purchase of Motorola. (though I'd love to be proven wrong by Google of course)
- angryasian 15y ago
  not a nook owner but I've read of honeycomb running on it sdk 3.0
  - com 15y ago
    Yep, but the Honeycomb that's running there is a hacked version of the SDK image (!!). On my Nook Color it works, barely. I get crashes in the browser, have issues getting apps available from the Market etc. An amazing effort, but not the same as something built from source and which can have defects fixed if they get frustrating enough to me ;-)
  - yardie 15y ago
    It's running Honeycomb SDK parts on a Gingerbread kernel (since the HC device drivers haven't been opensourced). We'll call it FrankenComb. It's not a great position to be in. As a Nook owner I take Google's "open" stance with a serious grain of salt. It's a bit like Animal Farm, it's open, but some parts are more open then others, you just have to be a certain animal to get it. It's for your own good.
- fpgeek 15y ago
  Google claims that they're release the source for Ice Cream Sandwich (due before the end of the year), so we'll know one way or another soon enough. That being said, I think Google is probably right about Honeycomb not being ready for public release. In particular, the amount of trouble they've had modifying Honeycomb to handle 7-inch tablets (and based on the reviews of the Acer Iconia A100 they've failed so far - last I heard Kindle doesn't work!) is a pretty serious indictment of Honeycomb. Especially when you consider that pre-Honeycomb, Android didn't have any trouble handling screen sizes that differed by a similar margin (consider a 4.3 or 4.5" flagship handset vs a small phone or Blackberry-style form factor).
- nextparadigms 15y ago
  Google has already said that they will release the ICS source code.

pilif 15y ago

> Its been a week since the firestorm, getting CM7 working this fast is already impressive enough. I have no doubts Honeycomb will be soon. Unfortunately Not. Honeycomb is closed source (aside if the kernel) and only available to a few OEMs. Google maintains that it's just not ready for public release, but that was nearly a year ago now, so I wouldn't be surprised if Gingerbread was the last public release. Even more so with the recent purchase of Motorola. (though I'd love to be proven wrong by Google of course)

angryasian 15y ago
not a nook owner but I've read of honeycomb running on it sdk 3.0
- com 15y ago
  Yep, but the Honeycomb that's running there is a hacked version of the SDK image (!!). On my Nook Color it works, barely. I get crashes in the browser, have issues getting apps available from the Market etc. An amazing effort, but not the same as something built from source and which can have defects fixed if they get frustrating enough to me ;-)
- yardie 15y ago
  It's running Honeycomb SDK parts on a Gingerbread kernel (since the HC device drivers haven't been opensourced). We'll call it FrankenComb. It's not a great position to be in. As a Nook owner I take Google's "open" stance with a serious grain of salt. It's a bit like Animal Farm, it's open, but some parts are more open then others, you just have to be a certain animal to get it. It's for your own good.
fpgeek 15y ago
Google claims that they're release the source for Ice Cream Sandwich (due before the end of the year), so we'll know one way or another soon enough. That being said, I think Google is probably right about Honeycomb not being ready for public release. In particular, the amount of trouble they've had modifying Honeycomb to handle 7-inch tablets (and based on the reviews of the Acer Iconia A100 they've failed so far - last I heard Kindle doesn't work!) is a pretty serious indictment of Honeycomb. Especially when you consider that pre-Honeycomb, Android didn't have any trouble handling screen sizes that differed by a similar margin (consider a 4.3 or 4.5" flagship handset vs a small phone or Blackberry-style form factor).
nextparadigms 15y ago
Google has already said that they will release the ICS source code.