Your Honeycomb Tablet Has a Gingerbread UI
Honeycomb on its own not enough for you?
Google plans to eventually have both Android tablets and smartphones running Ice Cream Sandwich. However, until then, Google tablets are running the company’s tablet-optimized version of Android, Honeycomb, while phones are based on Gingerbread, aka Android 2.3.
However, those with tablet rocking Honeycomb needn’t feel left out of the Gingerbread fun. Pocketables reports modder Graffix0214 has discovered that bumping the pixel density (ppi) from 160 to higher than 170 will transform your rooted Honeycomb tablet into a Gingerbread tablet. You can use ‘LCDDensity for Root’ to tweak the dpi and toggle back and forth between Honeycomb and Gingerbread as much as you like.
Check the video to see this hack in action:
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say what ???
Words cannot describe...
Sort of like using a wire hanger to fix a broken rabbit ear antenna on an old TV set.
Damn, now I'm hungry for a real ice cream sandwich. I love those things.
Didn't everyone know this? We found out on the modaco blade forums as soon as someone got a bootable honeycomb working.
Good discovery by Graffix0214.
Can they just mention the OS version and do away with the junk food titles? It is really not very enlightening.
Honeycomb, Gingerbread and now Ice Cream Sandwiches? I'm confused, are talking food or tablets?
iOS is Much Better - More smoother and no lag
I also noticed that NOTHING worked well while it was in "gingerbread UI" mode. Btw I don't think it was really gingerbread, just amping the pixel density forces the os to think its running on a small high density screen...therefore the UI changes.
Nothing is actually stopping honeycomb from running on a smartphone, it COULD run right now if you wanted it to.
Such a glowing endorsement for iOS users.
I don't use honeycomb per say, but my kids use Trix. Because Trix is only for kids.
Silly Rabbit!
iOS is Much Better - More smoother and no lag
BUT, can it run flash? And most importantly, is it named after an awesome desert? No it isn't. Ice Cream Sandwiches are so much cooler.
dont forget frozen yogurt, cupcake, donut, and eclair lol.
You guys do know that its just alphabetical, take the first letter, drop the rest. Perfectly logical naming scheme to me, and still fun
Froyo - F
Gingerbread - G
Honeycomb - H
Ice cream Sandwich - I
J - Jellybean?
This isn't fun.
iOS is Much Better - More smoother and no lag
And it would be worth something if you could do anything with it.
You guys do know that its just alphabetical, take the first letter, drop the rest. Perfectly logical naming scheme to me, and still funFroyo - FGingerbread - GHoneycomb - HIce cream Sandwich - I
Not to mention Cupcake, Donut, and Eclair before that!
If this reduces lag, anything would do. Honeycomb tablets I tested were very slow.