When Google’s group think about their company’s future one would have to believe that they feel quite good about things. The Android platform for their smart phone is doing outstanding. If one does not want to go that far than one still has to admit that things are a lot better than they were 2 years ago for Android when it was released. At that time, Android was only supported by one phone and there weren’t a lot of applications that were available to be run on it.
During the presentation there were some rather impressive figures that we being touted.
* 100,000 new activations of an Android device every day
* 50,000 new acquisitions with the Android Market ever day
The Google team also demoed the new version of the Android software. Many are arguing that this is a major breakout for Android and a larger technological leap that there mere version number of 2.2 indicates.
Some of the more exciting breakthroughs that are to be found within the Android 2.2 version update are:
* Increased, faster performance
* Flash support – While it’s true that Adobe Flash can sometimes be stupid and seem somewhat evil but sometimes you just have to watch a video or use some type of an interactive widget
* Backup’s automatically
Perhaps the only complaint that many will have is the wait as many of the cell phone service providers/manufactures are not getting the upgrade right away. For example, HTC has noted that only those cell phones shipped in the second half of 2010 will be getting Froyo. All of the others will be running the existing Adroid software.
Froyo offers far greater battery life and this should have been one of the features that was advertised.
Down the hall from the keynote address was a glass case filled with cell phones and tablet computers which all run the Android software. An impressive demonstration of just how far and quickly the Android software has come. One could view the current hardware and was also given a glimpse into the future from countries/areas such as:
* Sony
* Samsung
* LG
* HTC
* Motorola
From viewing the line up one could confidently conclude that the if there isn’t a phone to match your size and shape criteria now there soon will be – even if the hardware is not as elegant as that of the iPhones…
Perhaps with the given line up, people will finally stop asking about the Verizon iPhone.
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