Bombshell for the last week of March: the Nexus brand will also be present in the tablet market. This has been pointed out by the specialist in leaks within the field of telephony, the Russian blogger Eldar Murtazin (Nokia's scourge, in particular), who assures that LG would be preparing a tablet that Google would include in its Nexus range and would work with Android 3.0 Honeycomb, or with a more advanced version that would be coming from the platform.
But not all are good news. And the journalist caucasian points other data about the conditions that seem to impose Google to launch those tablets with Android. According to the information reported by Murtazin, some kind of agreement between Mountain View and its device manufacturing partners, terminals that have been launched with a version of Android prior to 3.0 Honeycomb could not upgrade to the tablet edition. However, this data seems quite strange, both because of the principle of the conditions themselves and because of the apparently illogical approach.
The most obvious examples of the devices that would be affected by this point would be the Samsung Galaxy Tab and HTC Flyer. Both are terminals that were presented with Android 2.x (FroYo in the case of the Samsung tablet, and the HTC one is expected to arrive with Android 2.4, a retouched version of Gingerbread), although there was data that indicated that they would be updated to the advanced edition for tablets.
In fact, during the presentation of the HTC Flyer at the last Mobile World Congress 2011 in Barcelona, it was repeatedly stressed that the update to Android 3.0 Honeycomb was assured, and that it would be carried out as soon as the native interface of the house, HTC Sense, to the new system for tablets.
In the case of the first generation Galaxy Tab, the confirmation was somewhat warmer, although it was pointed out that the first Samsung tablet would have Honeycomb. However, given the unconfirmed data from Murtazin, the updating of the Samsung Galaxy Tab could be in jeopardy.
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