Google Demos Android Honeycomb Tablet at CES

Google on Wednesday took to the stage at Verizon's Consumer Electronics Show keynote to show off its updated Android Honeycomb mobile OS.

The company also posted a YouTube video demo of the OS (below).

Google's Mike Cleron demonstrated Honeycomb on an unnamed tablet. With Honeycomb, Google spent over a year thinking about how to rebuild Android from the ground-up, he said. Google "focused on taking all the things people already love about Android and making them richer."

Google worked to make its widgets more powerful and focused a lot of effort on making customization and multi-tasking more seamless. Indeed, multi-tasking worked quite well during the demo – a line of previously used apps were on the left-hand side of the screen, and Cleron picked up where he left off in a game of Dungeon Defenders just by tapping the preview pane.

Cleron also showed off Gmail, which has been redesigned for tablets, and his demo of a Google Maps that tilts, zooms, and rotates got a few oohs and aahs from the crowd. Notifications, meanwhile, now carry more information, like a person's photo.

Earlier today, Google's Android Open Source lead Dan Morrill tweeted that there is no "hard minimum processor requirement" to run Android Honeycomb, the new tablet-centric Google OS.



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