Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) review
A vast improvement over previous versions of Android for tablets, but the browser needs a bit of improving and there need to be more apps.
Contacts
Contacts remains similar to standard Android, bar the fact that there’s now a panel containing the list of contacts and a pane to display the actual information. The app can pull in detail from other apps, such as the latest Tweet from a contact.
Again, Contacts is another example of a app that has been tweaked to make the most of higher screen resolutions, making it easier to use on a tablet.
Market
The Market has been given an overhaul, so that it now has more in common with the web version than the smartphone edition. It uses the full screen, with a set of promoted apps on the home screen, plus a panel of categories to navigate.
Viewing an app, keeps the Download or Purchase buttons in a fixed panel, while the description and users reviews are in a scrollable side panel. It makes it a bit quicker to find an app, read through the information to make sure it’s what you’re after and install it.
We still found that the Market can be a bit annoying to use at times, and we had to manually sign into Talk to make some downloads start.
Video editing
Film Studio is the new app for editing video on your device. It’s incredibly simplistic and allows you to join multiple clips (or photos) together, trim clips and add music. Once you’re done you have to save the results and go back to the Gallery app before you can share the results with YouTube or friends. Better sharing built in would have been nice, but it’s not a big problem.
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| Price | £0 |
| Details | www.google.com |
| Rating | **** |