Samsung will launch Android Honeycombe tablets in 2011

AFTER ANDROID GINGERBREAD comes Honeycombe and it will be for tablets. Samsung intends to use it in a range of tablets that the company will launch in 2011.

At IFA 2010 Samsung's mobile communications president J K Shin explained that a larger tablet will use Honeycombe, the proper name for which is Android 3.5. The company launched its 7-inch Galaxy Tab tablet at IFA today, saying that for its size Android 2.2 Froyo is more appropriate.

Shin also said that the company will launch a range of tablets in 2011 because between smartphones and PCs he expects "very high growth for tablet". He referred to a figure of 13 million tablet units being sold this year, a figure produced by an August Isuppli report.

The Galaxy Tab is described as an "on the go" device, while other tablets are "on the sofa or lap". The descriptions indicate that Samsung sees tablets beginning at a sort of super smartphone size and expandng in size, and no doubt function, up to a notebook size, which will need to be held with both hands and used on the lap. µ