Android Gingerbread

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They still talk a lot about Android Froyo, devices that have had the update and others who must have others who would do well to resign. But there is already talk of post-Froyo that Android 3.0 Gingerbread. If you feel like something sweet you know you can always count on the Android team to give you your fix. OK, so they cannot really satisfy your desire for snacks and treats, but they can certainly satisfy your appetite with the code name they sharpen assign to each new version of Android. Froyo (frozen yogurt) is the latest released version of Android 2.2, and we are all excited about gingerbread. Reports surfaced a few months back to follow the honeycomb pinning names on the iteration that (is now believed that gingerbread and Honeycomb is Android 3.0 and 3.5 respectively, although this is not confirmed).

Google gave a short announcement about Android Gingerbread. Unfortunately, Google's bread is talking about is not exactly what we've been waiting for. The cafeteria at the headquarters of Google have been working hard to make gingerbread little in the way of our favorite green mascot. While cookies taste great, I'm pretty sure most of us would rather have a real taste of Android 2.3. The Android 3 were the first to say it will take some power in the hardware to run on a mobile device. As founder of Android Andy Rubin, Today, Google worked as Vice President of Engineering, said in an interview that the next version of Android 3.0 Gingerbread new features in the platform games (games) should be included. The browser supports HTML 5. Video chat also tested in the low bandwidth of mobile communication is optimized. The Google phone Nexus One will be the first on which the new Android version Gingerbread running.

Users of the developer version of Google's own mobile phone Nexus One will be the first to automatically online update. Whether on the Vodafone sold Nexus One are updated simultaneously, is still unclear. About the version of Android Gingerbread long time there was only conjecture. Android Ginger Bread is officially called Android 2.3, which also means there will be only minor changes. The big news saves for Android Honeycomb to the 3.0 version will carry the number.

Buried in the code is a special section is a bit that the menus to specifies use. For Android 2.2, the level up 8.The new Google Maps is set, contains Level combined 9, but not yet used before. One particular user managed to switch the menus until 9 Location and the picture below (right side of the figure), which look like the new menus with Level ninth Not much has changed except they split and combine clean look slightly larger. This is only one of many small improvements that possibly been found. As for the benefit of a release date, we will tentatively at the moment, android gingerbread launches.

Software’s & Applications:

As far as software goes, it looks pretty much like Froyo until you hit the 1.03 mark, where the person gestures on the bottom of the screen, revealing that all home-screen panels, which is very similar to HTC Sense's Leap feature. The feature is called helicopter view, and is fairly well implemented, but it seems obvious sense to be stolen by HTC. We have learned that Gingerbread would be "more than anything like HTC Sense is to understand what the informant? A similar function is on home replacement applications, as found ADW Launcher. Other than that, not much new. The only slightly different, to consider what the two icons to the Application Launcher are. The two symbols, which are usually the phone and browser icons, contacts and messaging, and these flights are less subtle than what to be on an exchange Froyo device.

The 3D photo gallery from is shown, which is nothing new, with the Android 2.1 and above. The person who does the demo to try to show go to the settings that the device with Android 3.0, but this can be a little refiguring some system files are changed. Be what they may, where gingerbread, I'm impressed. Fortunately, it is probably not, but we have no real evidence, something from the base - it is just might be. What I do not get when Google to send someone a demo unit of the latest versions of Android.

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Multimedia:

We were saying that Google is ready to attack with its iTunes rival, Google Music. This new product integrates both an online store to purchase music (and video? Do not know yet) and a mechanism to scan the user's hardrive search all the installed music files and copy them to an online storage for 25 $ per year or $ 2 per month. While this may be the final guillotine for those who pirate music, while the lifeboat is for those who want to migrate from iTunes and other services in the most painless way possible. It remains to understand how this system may, indeed, as will be integrated into Android, because the ultimate goal is to give the user the ability to buy music online and get the copy of the file is on cloud-storage and on phone, all over-the-air automatically.

Another change is cosmetic, Android 3 certainly mark the passage of orange (color of Google) to green (the color of the OS). Under the hood, see Gingerbread should get hardware acceleration (or graphics) for the videos. In addition, a new protocol for video-conferencing should be used (that of the desktop version of GTalk). Finally, the icing on the cake (so Ginger), Android 3 will bring native support for SIP, which can make calls using wifi (VoIP).

User Interface:

Ok, let's face it, the smooth interface of Android is not the best on the market, say it is the latter. This inconvenience" we thought the various vendors that have released for your Smartphone a highly customized version of Android, and while some others have managed it only made things worse. Of this, Google is well aware and is willing to make things more consistent with Gingerbread, eliminating the need to appear on the market versions of Android. This is possible? Yes! Making precisely the user-experience with beautiful Android smooth so you do not have to force the various OEMs have to redesign the GUI.

The UI is really the central concern of the developers of Mountain View. Google does not want a multitude of interfaces customized by each manufacturer (see above). Quite to admit that some implementations were good ideas. This applies to the effect bounce in this instance the home interface (and platform) Samsung TouchWiz. For the record, this rebound occurs when the user reaches the end (or beginning) of a menu or a list that scrolls. Instead of stopping clear, the bounces list window to indicate that the latter has been achieved.

Apple's strategy is simple. It involves optimizing its OS (IOS) for one type of Smartphone (iPhone), he also built himself. Android faces a different situation: different screen sizes, definitions, powers, etc. Imagine the ideal interface returns more to find the best possible compromise that truly optimize this layer of the OS

Compatibility :

Unlike its predecessors, "Gingerbread" - the next version of its mobile OS - will require drastic hardware specifications. It is true, there are already some tablet with Android installed Froyo, Galaxy Tab? It’s really him! But in terms of usability and it is certainly not at the level of competitor of iPad, until now simply because Android was not designed to run on those devices. According to some rumors Gingerbread instead should support screen resolution of 1280 × 760.

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Samsung S2

Galaxy S2 is the next super-Smartphone, and it comes from Samsung: extreme values make it ready for third Android. The Samsung S2 is to provide Galaxy with a 4.3-inch display with 1280 * 720 pixel resolution, a 2GHz processor (dual core) and other peaks all in the shadow of what it has been given to mobile phone service. This is also necessary, the three Android, code-named Gingerbread requires a lot of the machines. While there is still a matter unconfirmed rumors, but the technical details to come from Samsung. The Super-Smartphone needs the extreme performance, because it focuses on Android 3.0.

Google is said to have adopted a two-rail Strategies for Android, according to which only high-power devices may be of at least one gigahertz processor speed, etc. with the next version of the operating system - the others are updated up to Android 2.2. The Galaxy S2 by Samsung should be passing the test easily. To 2GHz processor and the screen with the small HD 780p ROM are joined by 1GB and 4GB of RAM and 32GB flash memory, which can be in with a further 32 GB micro-SD slot yet drilled on.

Should also brings the Samsung S2 can record text, an 8-megapixel camera, full-HD. Furthermore, A-GPS, Bluetooth 3.0, Wi-Fi b / g / n, gyroscopes, accelerometers, light and proximity sensor on board. That would be all in all, probably about 100 times as much technology as in my first desktop computer.

System Requirement:

First, the minimum configuration to run the OS is a Smartphone with 512 MB RAM, 1 GHz processor and a 3.5 inch screen. In other words, not the first phone came. A resolution of 1280x760 to make its appearance for screens larger than 4 inches. We obviously think the tablets.

Finally, the developer confirms that the interface of the Android 3.0 should be completely rethought, especially with more transition effects. According to him, Google is betting would have to segment the market into two: Android phones 2.x for entry and mid-range, and Android for Smartphone’s 3.x most advanced.

Conclusion:

Faced with criticism from some on the ugliness of the mobile OS, Google has decided to rework the UI in depth: new icons and a greater sense of unity on the menu the next Android. The goal is to fully integrate the applications in the look of the OS (on the model of the iPhone) for greater comfort. The first application under development that would benefit from this treatment Youtube.

What will be the new video format for streaming content, Google's proprietary format and will be included in gingerbread. In the future it is believed that Google will migrate completely from H.264. WebMate and will use any web content. Particularly with regard to what they say is the future of iTunes competitors. Google has always said that Android 3.0 aims to improve end-user experience, and has indicated that the mechanism that allows the user to copy paste text from somewhere else (think of navigation path browser for example) will be significantly improved, not much is known about what and how will be improved, but it is easy to think it will be a iOS the-way but a lot better (hopefully).

So we say that the new version of Android is yet to mention more details so that we cannot overtake what we do know is that the Android version 3 supports resolutions of 1280 x 760 that means 4 inches. Gingerbread is due out later this year. By the way, taken with your Smartphone Nexus One. Thus, the first phone with Android 2.3 will certainly be this particular phone. When Android 3.2 will be available for other phones is not yet known.