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Honeycomb boot screen looks sweet as… honey
February 4, 2011 | by Michael Heller
Android OS
I know this is going to sound weird, but I’m actually a bit sad that the Xoom tablet boots up so fast because the boot screen looks absolutely fantastic. Theoretically, after a while of owning the device the shine would wear off, but even almost a year later I still find myself watching my Nexus One’s boot animation. It’s actually a small, albeit fairly ridiculous reason why I never run Cyanogen for too long – I just like the stock boot animation (and yes, I know I could change it, but we’re already getting a bit off topic.)
TechCrunch got some video of the new boot animation for Honeycomb, and it is pretty sweet. As you’d expect, it keeps the Tron-like blue neon design and brings in a nice pulsating honeycomb design. And, thanks to the Tegra 2, the boot is extremely fast, clocking in at under 10 seconds.
The more I see, the more I think I’m going to break down and get an Android tablet sooner rather than later, even with rumors of quad-core Tegras hitting this holiday season.
I was listening to either Android Central or Android Guys podcast (I don't remember), and they were talking about "the bee". This article is the first I've seen of it and, yes, I must admit, I'm a fan! My recent post Virgin Mobile Samsung Intercept vs The LG Optimus V
Nice… really cool effect…
For what purposes exactly would you use Quad-Core SoC in mobile device? Doing CAD design? offline rendering? HD video content production? WHAT? With proper GPU acceleration of Honeycomb and future Android releases, there's absolutely NO point in having multi-Application processors in tablets/phones! With Quad-Core (and beyond) processors NVIDIA is targeting cloud server market where low-power multi-core processors do make sense, but will NOT succeed against low-power x86 processors from AMD and Intel! again simple question: what real-world benefits do you see from having Quad-Core processors inside tablets and phones??
@Nedjo I would imagine multi-core processors are great for games
Perty cool. Probably isn't a chance that Honeycomb will ever come to my underpowered LG Ally though….
Seems more that the Ally is a phone which would stop Honeycomb from hitting it, especially considering xda got Honeycomb running on the Nook Color.