Android Honeycomb OS Could Be Exclusive to Tablets

Rumors are circulating that the hotly anticipated Android 3.0 Honeycomb OS may never be released in a smartphone-compatible version. It has been well documented that Honeycomb is primarily being designed for tablets, and this new information really drives home that Honeycomb will truly be a tablet-first, smartphones eat-their-hearts-out kind of OS.

When speaking about Honeycomb, Google’s Director of Engineering Dave Burke strongly stated: "Right now, it's a tablet operating system."

Check out our sister site Brighthand for a breakdown of why Honeycomb wouldn’t work well for smartphones, and how Google plans to rectify the split between the 2.x and 3.x versions of Android.