The adoption of Android 4.0 has apparently failed to impress and now with Microsoft showing a real threat with Windows 8, Google must find a way to have their OS start mattering on the tablet market. We all know that Honeycomb was criticized a lot and Android 4.0 doesn’t really bring anything impressive to the table, when it comes to large screen devices at least. Now it appears that Android 5.0 Jelly Bean will take care of the tablet evolution, according to Taiwanese sources.
Windows 8 is expected to debut in Q3 2012 and Google will most likely counter it with the debut of Android 5.0 in Q2, maybe in May, the traditional month for the Google I/O event. Taiwanese supply chain makers are claiming that Jelly Bean will be optimized for tablet PCs and it will integrate some chrome functions. Also, it will be part of a dual OS system that will make it a bundle with Windows 8 at some point. You’ll even be able to switch between Win 8 and Jelly Bean without rebooting.
Android 5.0 also wants to leave a mark on the netbook and notebook market apparently and the problem here is that since Android 4.0 and Honeycomb didn’t get that much love Google partners are starting to get all skeptical about the next release…
