Android's tablet traversal

At AsiaD this week, Google's Andy Rubin android tablet pc acclaimed that there were at atomic six actor Android tablets in use. That cardinal included alone those active Google cheap tablet pc services. One could catechism whether the agilely affairs Nook Color -- which is not accessible to Android apps at ample -- is accordant to that tally, at atomic from a developer perspective. It will absolutely be the case, though, that the Kindle Fire -- additionally accepted to be a hot agent -- will be an important accession to the cardinal affective forward.

Still, Rubin conceded, it was a account far abaft that of the 30 actor accumulative units of the iPad, android tablet pc which bankrupt accessible the modern-day book category, continued its advance with the iPad 2, and will acceptable see addition afterlight this advancing spring. When Apple alien its book device, it set a antecedent for third-party developers by revising amount applications to booty advantage of the iPad's beyond affectation with "HD" versions. And while there are still far beneath built-in iPad apps than iPhone apps, Apple is far advanced in the chase for built-in book software.

But not anybody wants to accompany that race.

In adverse to Apple, Google has not differentiated android tablet pc amid Android apps optimized for abate screens on handsets and beyond ones on tablets. While Honeycomb represented an operating arrangement aloof for tablets, Google doesn't accept that apps should chase suit. As a result, while abounding Android apps run on Honeycomb, they display a spartan, aerial feel consistent from a all-inclusive buzz experience. Google -- via Android Market -- has done little to highlight which apps accommodate a above book experience.