With around 153 million cellular and Personal Communications Service (PCS) subscribers and a population of 290 million, the Unites States is the second largest cellular market in the world. Mobile phones have become an integral part of our lives and have taken the world by storm turning them into simply incredible devices! The cell phone technology is improving rapidly at blazing speed. Every other day we find some or other changes in the technology of mobile phones. The latest Android technology - broadly, a system to transfer the applications instantly has altogether taken Mobile phones into a different era. The latest Android 2.2 under an open source license performs some of the same tasks up to five times faster in version 2.2 compared to 2.1.
According to the Google Android 2.2 mobile phone messages will be received on phone's notification bar. We just need to download the update, wait for it to install, and we should be all set.
The Android 2.2 platform introduces many exciting features and technologies
- New Home screen widget now has dedicated shortcuts on the Home screen, which are easily accessible from any of the 5 home screen panels.
- There is security enhancement with the addition of numeric pin or alpha-numeric password options to unlock device.
- Exchange administrators can remotely reset the device to factory defaults to secure data in case device is lost or stolen.
- It provides auto-discovery: you just need to know your user-name and password to easily set up and sync an Exchange account.
- Global Address Lists in the Email application enables users to auto-complete recipient names from the directory.
- Gallery allows you to peek into picture stacks using a zoom gesture.
- Camera onscreen buttons provide easy access to a new UI for controlling zoom, flash, white balance, geo-tagging, focus and exposure. Camcorder also provides an easy way to set video size/quality for MMS and YouTube. With the help of LED flash the Camcorder, videos can be shot at night or in low light settings.
- Kernel Memory Management Boost: Improved memory up to 20x results in faster app switching and smoother performance on memory-constrained devices.
The Android 2.2 Technologies
- Voice dialing over Bluetooth
- Ability to share contacts with other phones
- Support for Bluetooth enabled car and desk docks
- Improved compatibility matrix with car kits and headsets
2.6.32 kernel upgrade
- HIGHMEM support for RAM >256MB
- SDIO scheduling and BT improvements
The Android 2.2 New developer services
- Apps can utilize Android Cloud to Device Messaging to enable mobile alert, send to phone, and two-way push sync functionality.
- New bug reporting feature for Android Market apps enables developers to receive crash and freeze reports from their users. The reports will be available when they log into their publisher account.
T-Mobile is planning to update its existing myTouch 3G phones to the latest software version, Android 2.2". Those who are already having myTouch 3G will also gain the updated Faves Gallery, Genius Button full Exchange support found in Mytouch 3G slide.
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