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That doesn't mean much. Look at the regularity of Android phone releases. Companies don't wait a long time to release other great products that differ in certain ways. Same with tablets. LG have a product out, but they have another one on the short term roadmap. Sony have Honeycomb products coming out soon, as do Dell, as well as a few others. My understanding is that a lot of them were aware of the recent 3.1 Honeycomb release and decided to hold off for that for many products.
In some ways they are but it's also a key feature for the success of Android as a platform, especially an open platform that is going to find it's way into many different use case scenarios. We are starting to see a lot more wireless devices but it would be ridiculous for everyone to go out and replace all their existing ones that function perfectly. For example, I would not need to purchase a keyboard dock for an Android tablet now, because I already have a perfectly functional wireless keyboard and mouse that operates via a small USB dongle. I have a HD webcam that is USB, of course phones and tablets have cameras, but something like Google TV doesn't, so I'd be able to use it on that. As well as different audio devices and all kinds of different things. Something like Skype/video chat seems to be that it would be much better suited to be used via your TV rather than how we all use it now on computers and phones, and I don't foresee TV's coming with integrated webcams for a while.
With the speed of USB 3.0 which is just starting to show up in various places, for some things it will be a lot more feasible to connect via USB compared to wifi or bluetooth transfer rates. Particularly with larger files. Given that Honeycomb ships with what by all account is a very good movie editor app, you could carry a portable hard drive that contained a lot of HD footage and be able to edit it on the go, etc.
I could sit here all day listing scenarios but you get my point.
For me I believe that one of the key reasons why Android has been decimating the competition and will continue to do so, is because people like to have options. Adding USB hosting support allows people many more options as to the usability of their device. And it's actually been one of the top 5 most request features that developers have been asking Google to implement into Android since literally before the G1 was even released.
I mean, you wouldn't buy a computer without USB ports, right? And the more different places Android shows up, the more important this becomes.
With the speed of USB 3.0 which is just starting to show up in various places, for some things it will be a lot more feasible to connect via USB compared to wifi or bluetooth transfer rates. Particularly with larger files. Given that Honeycomb ships with what by all account is a very good movie editor app, you could carry a portable hard drive that contained a lot of HD footage and be able to edit it on the go, etc.
I could sit here all day listing scenarios but you get my point.
For me I believe that one of the key reasons why Android has been decimating the competition and will continue to do so, is because people like to have options. Adding USB hosting support allows people many more options as to the usability of their device. And it's actually been one of the top 5 most request features that developers have been asking Google to implement into Android since literally before the G1 was even released.
I mean, you wouldn't buy a computer without USB ports, right? And the more different places Android shows up, the more important this becomes.
I forgot to mention. The Cheapo tablet I bought for £200, and I think it's even cheaper now. Has had Honeycomb ported. Still in the Beta stage. But it works. I am waiting for a fully working release. And hopefully one built from the code when google releases it. But it's a promising development. This happened a few weeks ago and development is still ongoing.
/\ The Sensation has a far higher resolution (540 x 960) than the S2 (800 x 480). I agree that overall the S2 is better though. But I think the Sensation is probably superior to the 2X.
Also HTC just reversed their locked bootloader policy, all future phones will now have unlockable bootloaders which is fucking awesome.
http://www.google.co.uk/url?url=htt...loader&usg=AFQjCNEmnXEGV_ejmogT8iPszp07fhUCRg
Anyyway, did you guys see the Google Wallet announcement?
Also HTC just reversed their locked bootloader policy, all future phones will now have unlockable bootloaders which is fucking awesome.
http://www.google.co.uk/url?url=htt...loader&usg=AFQjCNEmnXEGV_ejmogT8iPszp07fhUCRg
Anyyway, did you guys see the Google Wallet announcement?
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