Day 6 - Automatic Google Login option

It may seem obvious but if you bought a Google Honeycomb based table your probably a big user of Google's services. I know I certainly am tied into the Google ecosystem with their different apps and websites now providing everything from URL shortening to my calendar. There is one thing that the Honeycomb based tablets have implemented that I didn't expect and that was an automatic login function to Google's Web Services.

Automatic Sign-in Screen

When you go into the Browser app and then navigate your way through the excellent mobile browser to your preferred Google service, in this case it was Google Mail, a small yellow banner appears at the top of the page telling you that Automatic Sign-in is available and then will show your Google account email address and all you have to do is click login! Simple to do but such a nice feature to see added to the Honeycomb operating system, saving the user time and effort of typing all those passwords which are getting increasingly harder to remember and longer to type!

You can also use the function if you have more than one Google account associated with your tablet (see Settings > Accounts and sync) which is particularly useful if you share the use of your table with your partner or other family member. 

There is one thing I have found while using the Galaxy Tab that surprisingly a large number of Google services don't have compatible Honeycomb apps or their web services don't seem to always fit so well on the tablet. Now I appreciate that the Honeycomb is still a new operating system but you just think that Google of all people would make sure they support their own software. 

N.B. I would also like to make a correction to yesterday's post about Cutting and Pasting. Android OS has always had the ability to cut and paste since day 1, it is of course only the iOS software that took time to implement that feature.