New Features in Android 2.2 Froyo by HTC Summarized
As promised, HTC just released their most Anticipated update Android 2.2 code named Froyo for HTCÂ Desire.
Overall:
- It’s faster
- 720p recording.
- Screen can now also be rotated to the right!
- Dialer has new Android robot, kinda 3D looking one now.
Lockscreen:
- A delay can be set in the settings menu.
- Can now be a pattern lock, PIN lock or an alphanumeric password
- The lock pattern has grey middle buttons instead of black.
- Instead of just the time of the next alarm time. It also shows which day.
Settings:
- Wireless Networks contains settings for WiFi Hotspot
- New seperate menu for Screen settings.
- App screen is split up in 4 tabs: Downloaded | Only actived | All apps | On SD-Card
- Keyboard allows for Chinese input
- Keyboard allows for quick language change.
- New screen for speech.
New Apps:
- HTC Share App
- News & Weather
- Videos
- Voice Search
- WiFi Hotspot
- Torchlight
- Search (Google)
- Pictures renamed to Gallery
New Widgets:
- Calculator Widget
- Market Widget
Contacts
- Option to automatically send someone directly to voicemail now.
Messaging:
- The bottom box to type text is bigger.
- Now shows how many characters you have left from the start.
- New icon for send.
- New icon for attaching something.
- Scrolls smoother when a conversation has a lot of messages.
Gallery:
- Icons from the Sharing menu are smaller. In portrait mode, all are visible in 1 view.
Gmail:
- Now displays your email adres all the time in the upper-right corner.
- Displays a small icon of the person that send the mail if you have them in your address book.
- When viewing a mail, there are now buttons to go to the next and previous mail.
- Can copy text to clipboard now via menu button.
Google Talk
- New interface
- Don’t know of much more, I don’t use GTalk.
Market:
- New option to allow automatic updates.
- New seperate tab for app comments.
- Can now mark comments as: Useful, not useful and spam.
Music Player:
- When no cover available, the music note is now green.
- Pressing next has a MUCHHH smoother CoverFlow animation
- Genres are FIXED now.
- Pressing the left-button to open up the menu happens much faster.
- Shuffle seems better (not sure, but don’t bump into same song that often anymore).
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Kryptic on August 1st, 2010 at 7:53 PM
@adamm, For now update is only available for Unlocked / Debranded Desires. I’ve no info about Froyo release date on Orange UK network.