Google's Android Honeycomb platform, for example, which was demonstrated at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this month, will contribute competition to future smart phone development.

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Google demonstrated some features of Android Honeycomb, its upcoming operating system for tablets, onstage at Verizon's keynote Thursday morning.

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Some of the reasons cited are shortages of key components in part due to the Japanese quake and unstable performance of Android Honeycomb operating system, which Google specifically developed for tablets.

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Rented movies will also be available via Google TV, tablets running the Honeycomb version of Android and most Android handsets.

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They bring out a Google developer to talk about Honeycomb, the tablet version of Android.

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The emergence of Honeycomb, which Google is currently distributing to device manufacturers, marks a transition for Android.

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Google on Wednesday released a platform preview for its Android 3.0 mobile operating system (otherwise known as Honeycomb) along with an updated set of SDK tools.

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Google was the target of several jibes, including the fact that the latest version of its Android software (Honeycomb) has, at best, 100 compatible applications compared to 65, 000 apps for the iPad.

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