It seems like a few of you may be getting your Christmas wish after all. Sources say that Android 2.0 and 2.0.1 have already been prepared as OTA updates and are ready for release come next year. This will come as a relief to many as it was once believed that the Eclair update would be too big for the G1’s internal memory that had been set aside for the Operating System. This makes me wonder what T-Mobile may have had to shave off the edges for them to manage fitting it into the G1. Here’s hoping Eclair hasn’t been put on too strict a diet for the G1
Yes, I’m posting the same leak video I did last month, featuring the guy whose videos inspire more thumb comments than a Richard Gear story ever did those of the gerbil variety. I think it’s cool that the dude hung onto the seemingly superfluous digit – not an easy task in any modern culture. On the other hand, I have no mercy for his my-heart-will-go-on musical taste, so bash the hell outa that. I made the finger an issue, didn’t I? What was I saying? Oh, yeah… (cont.)
New news. The story popped up at digitimes in a post about Dell outsourcing the production of multiple MIDs to Qisda, was picked up by SlashGear where (I think) the AT&T bit was tacked on and was nicely packaged up over at Gizmodo, where I found it. So Dell’s going all out on this Android thing, which isn’t a surprize considering their support of Linux for the mainstream. You go, Dell!
Preliminary specs: 5-inch WVGA 800 x 480 touchscreen, Android 2.0, WiFi, Bluetooth, US 3G, 5 MP cam with dual-LED flash, a microSD, and a 1,300mAh battery.
I was recently told, in no uncertain terms, that Eclair would not fit within the confines of our beloved G1’s ROM. That was apparently wrong. These rumors have got to stop. Not only was the lass in the first vid below able to pull 2.0 from the SDK and drop it into the ol’ brick, theses videos demonstrate a quickly cooked and admittedly half-baked 2.0 ROM (pulled from SDK) by Akirah from xda developers. Imagine what will be available after a few months of optimization. I’ll be holding on to my G1 for now, thank you very much.
Google announced today the support of 2.o in the SDK and there’s plenty for developers to be excited about: great control over bluetooth and sync plus contact integration that will really pull the vanilla Android experience together, for starters. A single inbox, multiple access points for your contacts, and the potential for bluetooth gaming with chat and social features are just the beginning. Éclair is turning out to be quite a tasty treat. Oh, did I mention HTML 5? That paves the way for Google Wave, folks!
