Can I Update The Android Version On My Tablet

The long-expected update to the Android operating arrangement, version 1.5, has arrived. T-Mobile will be rolling out the new OS to existing G1 phones starting sometime side by side week. While you wait for your share of the software upgrade, take center: There's plenty to be excited about in the 1.5 release.

The final release of the Android one.5 Os, previously known every bit "Cupcake," finally brings an on-screen virtual keyboard with vibration feedback, plus video recording, playback, and sharing via YouTube. T-Mobile is expected to roll out this update to all its G1 customers past the end of the month.

Cupcake also brings many user interface refinements, along with accelerometer-based application rotations. The dwelling screen now features widgets equally well; some of the bundled ones include a agenda, an analog clock, music player, and search (with improved vocalisation search).

android video sharing — Video captured with the G1's camera tin can at present easily be shared via YouTube.

G1's browser is up for a treat also, with new re-create and paste, search within a page, tabbed bookmarks, and history features. Wireless music fans volition appreciate their G1 even more with A2DP stereo Bluetooth support (iPhone users — hang on, you're getting this in three.0 also) while automobile-pairing was added with an improved easily-free experience.

Gmail on the G1 gets upgraded with batch editing functionality for archives, labels, and deleting. The contacts app volition now evidence user pictures for your favorites and specific appointment and time stamps for events in the call log.

Google has put up a presentation video (below) of the Android one.5 release. It's worth noting that the engineer showcases the new Android 1.v features on the G2 (HTC Magic), which is available merely in Europe at the moment on Vodafone. The European G2 doesn't have a concrete keyboard and comes with a 3.2-megapixel camera (same as the G1).

With the Android 1.5 release, Google has defenseless upwardly with the features expected to come from its main rivals this summertime — the iPhone 3.0 update and Palm's WebOS. All in all, it'south dainty to see that Google approached the same strategy equally Apple when information technology comes to upgrading a phone's features without making the hardware obsolete (dissimilar, ahem, Nokia).

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