At CES this week Google demonstrated Honeycomb – the tablet specific version of Android. Google are pitching the device as a potential communication platform in a similar fashion to Avaya and Cisco recent tablet announcements. Take a look at the Verizon CES keynote. At around 8.23 Mike Cleron (Principal Android Engineer at Google) states that Honeycomb will add to Android’s communication platform capability. He then goes on to demonstrate real time video chat from Google Talk.
This highlights to me yet again that Google are looking to enter the enterprise communication market and when they consolidate their software and devices into an enterprise grade offer they will be a very serious player in the market.
The device demonstrated was a Motorola Xoom and will be sold on the Verizon network. No pricing has been released yet.
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