Filed under: OS Updates, Google, Mobile, Android
Google is unveiling some of the features of its next-generation mobile operating system with the launch of an updated Software Development Kit. That means developers can already begin writing programs for Android 2.0 even though the first phone to run the operating system won't officially be launched until tomorrow. So what's new in Google Android 2.0? Here's a shortlist:
- Support for multiple email Google and Exchange accounts on each device, allowing you to sync with multiple email accounts and address books
- Quick Contact feature that lets you pull up a contact's communication methods (email, SMS, phone, etc) with a single click
- Combined inbox with email from multiple accounts
- Search saved SMS and MMS messages
- Auto-delete old messages in a conversation after a limit is reached
- Improved keyboard with multi-touch support
- Dictionary automatically includes contact names as suggestions, learns from words you enter
- Web browser now includes web page thumbnails for bookmarks
- Double-tap to zoom in broser
- HTML5 support in web browser
- Infinite scrolling in the calendar
- Bluetooth 2.1 support
You can also see some of the new features in action including a pretty nifty demonstration of how two Android devices can interact with one another in the video after the break.
[via Engadget]
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