Single-core Android tablets like Samsung’s Galaxy Tab won’t meet the minimum requirements for Honeycomb, Google’s tablet-optimized operating system version, according to a manufacturer.
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Samsung’s Galaxy Tab has a 1 GHz Hummingbird processor and a 1024-by-600 resolution display. The company has previously suggested that the Galaxy Tab would update no further than the smartphone-focused Android 2.3 (“Gingerbread”), but Cha’s comments appear to seal the Tab’s fate as a rapidly aging product.
I spent some time with a Galaxy Tab this morning and kept thinking This is a dead end product. Turns out, it is.
Android is just a mess. Without a clear roadmap from Google, products like the Galaxy Tab will continue to disappoint customers,1 whose devices will become more and more outdated as their contracts slowly tick away.
Pretty pathetic for an expensive tablet that has been out just for a few months.
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Granted, buying a tablet with a non-standard version of a fragmented smartphone OS is kind of a dumb move, if you stop and think about it. ↩︎