Google's Android 2.1: How It'll Change Your Phone

[unix.punkx]

Great Post! One step closer to 2.1! I smell an update around the corner

 

[bllarkin]

One thing still conspicuously absent from Android in its 2.1 incarnation: native multitouch support. With that said, you can get multitouch-driven pinch-and-zoom Web browsing on your Android phone with the free Dolphin Browser application.

One small correction. No, the OS does not have multitouch programmed in, but the OS DOES have native support for multitouch via the APIs.

 

[PhDCow]

I like having more home screens. I'm very anal retentive. My main home page is the essentials. The left one is my calendar widget and tasks, notebook, and diary apps. The right one is my games screen. It'd be nice to have more "categories."

 

[Hypnotic]

Can't wait. Smoother screen transitions, new features....and now I can't remember what I was going to type serves me right for browsing during school.

Anyways hopefully the 22nd or sooner.

17th so far is the closest I've heard.

 

[smd6169]

So the DROID will get the 2.1 Upgrade via OTA? Awsome!!!! Can't wait.

 

[MrCapcom]

nice I love the gallery and the voice thing for emails/txt is sweet

 

[Venom51]

Keep the live wallpapers....keep the new photo gallery....however if they'd like to complete the bluetooth headset implementation that would be great.

 

[csodjd]

All sounds rather disappointing to me. Nothing to fix or improve the pathetic email, not even adding such basic features like signatures, much less fixing or addressing the variety of other problems. Nothing to enable sync with Outlook, not even through USB, much less wireless. Seems they are addressing pretty-features and not more functional ones.

 

[RW-1]

Sticky for the time being. This should clear up the next wave of 2.1 questions as it draws closer.

No it won't :icon_ devil:

 

[RW-1]

I don't think we'll see BT implementation on this release. Moto is really going to have to work on porting their BT SW to the platform, then test. I hope I'm wrong though.

 

[funken]

I keep reading about how it will be smoother and faster... why wasn't that mentioned?

 

[crspang]

All sounds rather disappointing to me. Nothing to fix or improve the pathetic email, not even adding such basic features like signatures, much less fixing or addressing the variety of other problems. Nothing to enable sync with Outlook, not even through USB, much less wireless. Seems they are addressing pretty-features and not more functional ones.

I think Google's priorities are to nudge people to use Gmail and other Google products and services, so Outlook functionality is probably not too high on the totem pole.
I agree, the "signature" issue is quite annoying.

 

[Aluminum21]

that's for making this thread, this clears a few things up for me

 

[Martin030908]

My first sticky - I'm so proud!:icon_ banana:

Congratulations!:clap:

 

[jb1]

I can already tell the only live wallpaper that seems remotely interesting is the Nexus one...

I'm curious to see if after 2.1 is released... whether or not we'll see some new 'live wallpapers' developed

im hoping that with the live wallpapers we could finally get an actual flipping animated clock like the one in sense or something like the sense ui on the hd2