Posts Tagged: froyo


2
Aug 10

HTC Desire 2.2 New features of FroYo summarized! – xda-developers

Obviously releases like more than have of these features is Froyo updates :)

I’m happy to see the HTC Share app is in there :)

Overall:

- It’s faster

- Dialer has new Android robot, kinda 3D looking one now.

- Now vibrates on shutdown (Found by Domsdey)

- Screen can now also be rotated to the right! (Found by martintzvetomirov)

- New Task Switcher when holding Home button. Displays 8 apps instead of 6. (Found by steve228uk)

- No more accidental screen activation by proximity sensor while talking with bluetooth. (Found by jordanxp)

- Android Cloud to Device Messaging support, Eg. ChromeToPhone to send links, maps directly to phone from chrome/firefox browser (Found by psycop)

New Apps:

- Launcher has been renamed from All Programs to All Apps (Found by steve228uk)

- HTC Share App

- News & Weather

- Videos

- Voice Search

- WiFi Hotspot

- Torchlight

- Search (Google)

- Pictures renamed to Gallery

New Widgets:

- Calculator Widget (Found by jaymit)

- FM Radio Widget (Found by martintzvetomirov)

- Market Widget (Found by jaymit)

Settings:

- Wireless Networks contains settings for WiFi Hotspot

- New menu for Screen settings.

- New menu for Speech settings.

- App screen is split up in 4 tabs: Downloaded | Only actived | All apps | On SD-Card

- New sound setting that allows lock/unlock sounds. (Found by loizoskounios)

- new volume settings that lets you independently change Ringtone, Media, Alarm and if seperate, Notification volume. (Found by aindow)

- Missing: Privacy menu, including the option for backup to SD card. (Found by gush)

Lockscreen:

- It’s no longer possible to unlock the slide-down screen by pressing menu. (Found by kevano22)

- The screen unclock sequence can be set to engage after some minutes, or immediatly. (Better formulated by elek_it)

- Can now be a pattern lock, PIN lock or an alphanumeric password

- The lock pattern has grey middle buttons instead of black.

- Instead of just the time of the next alarm time. It also shows which day.

Keyboard:

- Keyboard now allows for Chinese input

- Keyboard now allows for quick language change.

- User dictionary no longer jumps to top when editing a word (Found by jaymit)

- Seperate screen for deleting user dictionary words, allowing for batch deleting.

- Bug: If keyboard is set to Russian (Pусский), pressing spacebar will output an exclamation mark “!” instead of a space (Found by monsterfly)

Browser:

- Adobe Flash 10.1 support is built in (make sure plugins are allowed in settings!) (Found by martintzvetomirov)

Calendar:

Facebook events and birthdays are available in calendar. (Found by Sikacik)

Camera/Camcorder:

- Camera icons now rotate along with a smooth animation when rotating the phone (Found by @MARK)

- 3 codecs to choose from: H.263, H.264 and MPEG4

- 720p Recording possible with MPEG4 Codec.

- Zoom not available with 720p video recording. (Found by andrew2106)

- Flashlight can be set on during video recording. (Found by monsterfly)

Contacts :

- Option to automatically send someone directly to voicemail now. (Already in 2.1 according to Bouncer5)

- Facebook tab has more features (Found by Mike1988)

FM Radio:

- Radio now has RDS support. (Found by thpoul)

- FM Radio no longer has Japan Mode (Found by aindow)

Friend Stream:

- Now shows time of post, amount of comments and amount of likes. (Found by kazgor)

Messaging:

- The bottom box to type text is bigger.

- Now shows how many characters you have left from the start.

- New icon for send.

- New icon for attaching something.

- Scrolls smoother when a conversation has a lot of messages.

- Bug: UTF-8 issue with Greek sms still exists. (Found by thpoul)

Gallery:

- Icons from the Sharing menu are smaller. In portrait mode, all are visible in 1 view.

Gmail:

- Labels now have same color as those in Gmail on the web. (Found by @MARK)

- Now displays your email adres all the time in the upper-right corner.

- Displays a small icon of the person that send the mail if you have them in your address book.

- When viewing a mail, there are now buttons to go to the next and previous mail.

- Can copy text to clipboard now via menu button.

Google Talk

- New interface

Market:

- New option to allow automatic updates. (Found by jaymit)

- New seperate tab for app comments.

- Can now mark comments as: Useful, not useful and spam.

Music Player:

- When no cover available, the music note is now green.

- Pressing next has a much smoother CoverFlow animation

- Genres are fixed now.

- Pressing the left-button to open up the menu happens much faster.

- Shuffle seems better (not sure, but don’t bump into same song that often anymore).

via New features of FroYo summarized! – xda-developers.


7
Jul 10

Ars reviews Android 2.2 on the Nexus One

Google is rolling out Android 2.2, codenamed Froyo, to Nexus One handsets. The new version of the operating system brings an extremely noticeable performance boost, a handful of impressive new features, some minor user interface enhancements, and useful new APIs for developers. The additions in Froyo fill some of the gaps in the platform and augment its competitiveness relative to rivals.

via Ars reviews Android 2.2 on the Nexus One.


24
Jun 10

Celebrating Android 2.2

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/06/celebrating-android.html


13
May 10

Google To Add Tethering, Wifi Hotspot To Android 2.2 Froyo

In addition to full Flash support and a whopper of a speed improvement, we’ve just confirmed something that’s even more stunning. Froyo will have built in USB tethering so you can share your data connection with your laptop, something Apple and AT&T still haven’t managed to allow in the U.S. And even better: you can turn your Android phone into a portable wifi hotspot as well.

via Exclusive: Google To Add Tethering, Wifi Hotspot To Android 2.2 Froyo.