Google has announced today the new Android 2.0 platform. Android 2.0 brings new developer APIs for sync, Bluetooth, and some other areas. Developers can now write applications to enable users to sync their devices to various contact sources. With the new Bluetooth API, developers can easily add peer-to-peer connectivity or gaming to their applications.
Google has published a full list of improvements but amongst the improvements here are the best ones we have found:
- Email - Exchange support
- Messaging - Search support
- Camera - Built-in flash support, Digital zoom
- Keyboard - Improved virtual keyboard to help with correct characters and typing speed
- Browser - HTML5 support, double tap zoom, tap the address bar for instant searches and navigation
- Bluetooth 2.1 support, Object Push Profile (OPP) and Phone Book Access Profile (PBAP) support
The Samsung Moment is coming to Sprint on November 1st. Finally a decent phone with a full QWERTY Keyboard to get me off my old Nextel clunker!
I agree and I really would like to try out an Android phone but so far all of them are so much less responsive than my Pre it's not even funny. Don't forget Palm has a great QWERTY Linux-based phone out already with tons of official and homebrew apps and a decidedly hands-off approach to patching and hacking. The only thing that will come close in processing power is the upcoming Moto Droid and HTC Dragon/Passion.
I'm hoping that by next summer Sprint will have released their rumored 4G Android phone and I con consider upgrading from my Pre. Until then, there just aren't any phones with that kind of power on networks that don't rape you for service costs.
As of right now (and the way things are looking for the future) I don't think a 4G standard will be finalized by next summer.
That's fine. They have Wimax in my city and a growing number of others. I use it for my home internet service so it would be nice to have it on my mobile.
I thought I was the only person on the planet with a Xenon LOL. Mostly cause no one else I've come across has one, for some insane reason. It's really a nice phone. I love it.
Just like the iPhone with its MMS; Android 2.0 recieves Bluetooth 2.1
Are you still using 1.0? why? 1.5 and 1.6 have been available for a while.
Well thanks for the smartass comment. Just didnt know if that was something on the MyTouch that was disabled for some reason because there was no support
Only for rooted phones
I dont think your mother will know what is a rooted phone.
And i don't think your mother would know what SenseUI is
I prefer the default. The Sense UI looked nice, but I only used it for a while before returning to 1.6 because HTC replacement apps are inferior to Android's built in apps. The keyboard looks nicer but is a lot slower and more laggy than the default one, the phone app doesn't show what time missed calls came in at and scrolls super slow, the contacts app doesn't let you filter gmail groups and also scrolls really slow.
Then you run into the problem of needing to wait for HTC to update sense when a new android build is released, meaning sense users are typically far behind.
If I were you, stick with the iPhone. I'm ditching the ****ty Android and the G1. Even if its just the G1s hardware to me the software is not something I'd want either. I've played around with my friends 3GS and iPod Touch and everything acts as you think it should.
support for different screen sizes is very bad. they just keep all titles and all the same ui size in low resolutions. cheap work...
Quite a bit more expensive than the N810, but it seems to rectify some of the major complaints I had with it.
Anyway, can't wait to get an android phone.
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