Android 2.0.1, Release

In the journey of Android OS from November 2005 as little known company in the mobile OS to December 2009 with 27% Market Share. It going better and better with their functionality and facilities.

See Video at Introduction to android 2.0

Android 2.0 looks to be a major improvement in Google’s mobile OS and we couldn’t be more excited about it. From native Exchange support to native Facebook support (it will sync with your contacts), browser improvements, a completely updated Maps application, unified email and UI makeover

New User Features
Contacts and accounts
Contacts seem to be much some great functionality built right in. Instead of hitting the contact and then diving through it to find the contact information you need, just tap the contact’s photo. Up will spring a clean and tidy sub-menu with the pertinent information which can be clicked on. Send someone an email instantly, open up their Facebook profile, or even call them.

Multiple accounts can be added to a device for email and contact synchronization, including Exchange accounts. (Handset manufacturers can choose whether to include Exchange support in their devices.)

Email
Microsoft Exchange compatibility looks to be built-in to the OS now, and the new unified Inbox is perfect for keeping up with your personal and corporate email. You can star (flag for the corporate world) emails, mark multiple as read or unread, delete, forward ‚ whatever you want basically. Emails load effortlessly. Unfortunately (or not so, unfortunately) the unified Inbox won‚Äôt work with your Gmail account as that uses the specific Google-made Gmail email application in Android.

Messaging

Camera

Android virtual keyboard

Browser
The browser has a nice little UI makeover with a redone URL entry bar which includes a Favicon. In terms of performance, no this version we have doesn’t have Flash 10, Google keeps making strides in the browser space. It’s worlds better than anything we’ve used previously on a stock Android OS and jumps one notch higher than HTC’s customized browser. There is no multi-touch in here as of now, but, you can double tap to zoom in and zoom out

Refreshed UI with actionable browser URL bar enables users to directly tap the address bar for instant searches and navigation.

Calendar

Maps

Maps have been updated to include Layers. We’d imagine this will grow over time but now you can overlay search queries, Wikipedia entries, Latitude buddies, traffic, transit lines, and even load remote My Maps where you can share and receive directions with others. Android 2.0 seems to have some multi-touch gestures built-in like two-finger tapping in Maps, that will zoom in, however, there’s no gesture to zoom out and pinching doesn’t work.

There’s also a new option for Text-to-speech and generally, with Android 2.0, you’re given more control over the settings of your phone and more opportunities to customize it based on your liking. Things like doing a voice search across the internet, getting driving directions, viewing a location on a map, selecting a contact, searching through your phone, etc. It’s very cool that you can say, ‘map of gas stations’ and that will open Google Maps and show you on the map where all the gas stations are closest to you.

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