The new-look YouTube app, showing off its carousel of video panels. From here you can add stuff like widgets, shortcuts and wallpapers. When you want to customise homepages, you dip in and out of this sub menu.

Here, an email is being dragged from the main inbox to a relevant folder a neater and altogether more fluid way of doing things.

The twin panels set up of the new email client. Hardly revolutionary but it saves you from having to sacrifice screen space with a dedicated widget, like you do on current Android phones. Settings like brightness, Wi-Fi toggle and the like can be controlled via a handy control panel which pops up when needed and slides discreetly out of the way when you’re done with it. In case you didn’t catch the live streaming of the conference, you can feast your eyes on the screengrabs, which we dutifully took for your viewing pleasure. Google’s Andy Rubin opened proceedings, before handing over to Hugo Barra, who gave us a hands on demo of Honeycomb’s finer points.Īs well as things we’ve seen already such as the two new status bars and a new camera app, we’ve seen some other nice things too, like videocalling, a new CNN app and a couple of games that hint further at the shape of Android to come. Despite the red ribbon being cut on the brand spanking new Android Market website, the main focus of today’s Google event was talking about Android 3.0 and how awesome it is.

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