Smartphone manufacturers have a goal in mind: to make money. In order to do this, they build phones, they build software for the phones, they ship the phones to places that buy them, and then the phones are sold for money and everybody gets a little bit of they money. Google has recently announced their [...]

With Honeycomb 3.1, Google claims it will attempt to reduce fragmentation and bring a consistent experience to users across Android, while doing this all with a single OS. Maybe they didn’t say it exactly like that, but that’s the general impression we get. A few things to keep in mind:

Google has announced a strategic move towards home improvement. In other words, they want you to turn on a lamp with your smartphone. Yes that’s right. Your thumb is no longer good enough. Not even a foot button will suffice. The clapper? This isn’t the 1980′s. Motion sensors? This isn’t the 1990′s. Google is making [...]