Cupcake Android update coming to G1 in April
By Nilay Patel 
posted Mar 11th 2009 6:47PM
posted Mar 11th 2009 6:47PM
Well, after weeks of speculations and false alarms, it looks like T-Mobile's officially saying the "Cupcake" Android update will hit the G1 sometime next month. That's at least the word according to the T-Mo spokeperson Pocket-lint got hold of -- who went out of his way to disclaim any connection with the upcoming launch of the HTC Magic. In any event, we're hoping all this bake time has fixed some of those bugs and lag problems, but we'll see in a few weeks.
[Via Talk Android]
*shrieks of excitement*
Hopefully JF update gets it earlier!
Wrong. All you need are the Google Apps APK files from the released Cupcake build, and then you can install them onto your own build of master, which is what we have been wanting with Android the whole time.. the ability to run bleeding edge. Running JesusFreke's builds was just a fix to retain root, which is 110% available in master.
i'm anticipating it, but all this build up! i'm sure i'm expecting way too much!
woot! G1 just keeps getting better
betterer
I still wish the dialer could be used for text entry. Man, I would T9 that up really fast.
You're in luck, because Cupcake introduces a Soft Keyboard API, so anybody can write up their own Java keyboard to replace the one that it comes with. I'm sure a T9 keyboard will be available before too long.
I honestly don't know why you'd want it, but that's the beauty of an open system! Everybody wins!
I absolutely adore the G1, but it's been sorely missing A2DP for a long time now. This update is really going to make it the best phone out there.
iPhone closed source=20000 apps.
Android open source=200 app.
Hmmh wonder which is looking better???
Where's the beauty??
What's better fir consumer??
Exactly!!
Trollin', Trollin', Trollin' on a blog page.
shank you must not have a G1. 200 apps?
can someone give me an accurate app count for Android then?? doesn't seem like to many on the official site
There are a lot more than 200, that's for sure.
I believe Market's app count will exceed iPhone's app count sometime in the future (assuming Android gets any degree of success - which it probably will), as the platform is much more accessible to developers for a variety of reasons (development on Windows, Linux, and OSX, only $25 for developer registration, and no ambiguous app approval process) and by year's end it'll be available on several handsets.
i assume that android is not gonna be as big as the app store. If it was, it would have shown more significant growth than this so far. and dont give me that lack of paid apps bs. there was some decent apps on installer. i dont expect too much more growth from android, but if it does grow i will be surprised and happy.
damn if apple has taught us ANYTHING its that the amount of apps has NOTHING to do with the overall quality of the 'store'
@civilian
Android is slower to take off because it's currently limited to the G1, which obviously hasn't had anywhere near the kind of market penetration that the iPhone has. It's on a smaller carrier and it doesn't have the backing of a company with the kind of following that Apple has.
As more handsets trickle out onto the market on larger carriers, Android's popularity will continue to grow. It is definitely more accessable to developers (I know dozens of brilliant developers, and NONE of them own a macintosh computer), but until the end-user market is there it just won't be as lucritive to develop for. I'm confident it will get there eventually, we're just waiting on a larger handset selection.
T-Mo is saying the number of apps is running about 2900 right now. The relatively crappy quality of the App Store UI is probably one of the biggest drawbacks. Development is certainly about a thousand times easier on the G1 (and I've done both).
Come on guys quit jerking our chains...all I want to to know is, will it give us Flash, and will it have video recording, everyone is talking about a G2 now...what about the G1???
The G2 is inferior to the G1, in both hardware (no keyboard) and software (some apps require the keyboard).
Flash 10 for Android is still cooking. It won't come with Cupcake.
Who's jerking your chain? You're asking questions that have had well known answers for months now.
Cupcake does not contain Flash. Flash is coming to Android, but it's a separate project and has nothing to do with Cupcake.
Cupcake does, however, include video recording.
The G2, we assume, will eventually take the form of a T-Mobile branded HTC Magic. It is currently not announced yet. The HTC Magic has identical internal hardware specs as the G1, it just doesn't have a keyboard.
Flash would be in the hands of the developer, which in this case is not Goodle, Android, or T-Mobile. In most cases we'd be waiting on Adobe, unless they can do what the japanese did with their phones and write their own flash plug-in..? That'd be neat. I know for fact that the iPhone does not have flash because Adobe has not developed it yet for the iPhone's OS, again this is very well the case with the G1.
I bet the UK update will not be cupcake, just like we got screwed in the latest update, no latitude or voice search ala US and German versions have.
funny, today i wondered just what the hell happened to cupcake because it was supposed to come out in January or something. Then i checked engadget.
I think this will be a pretty good test to see if android will trully take off. Have there been any good apps or themes on android besides the ones we already know of like shopsavy and the new gps app???? I dont know where to look to check the android market online.
Check phonedog.com for some good Android app reviews. There's a guy on there who is an Android enthusiast and he puts up video reviews for the top Android apps fairly regularly.
Geez Android has a gorgeous-looking keyboard. I get envious each time I see it.
Damn it! I want one so much. When is it coming to Canada already?
Seriously overhyped android,.,.update????pathetic! Been out fir 6 months n is lagging . Open source looking inferior to closed source . Get off your a$$ already,.iPhone os killing u!!
And Symbian is killing the iPhone OS.
16 million iPhones sold
vs.
Over 100 million Symbian based phones sold
Come back and talk shit when you learn how to type.
smartass they are referring to the bugs in cupcake not that the phone lags now i have a g1 and i use to have an iphone and the iphone use to lag even when writing sometimes and the g1 can multitask and not lag unlike the iphone that closes the app you were using once you go back to the home screen and the iphone cant even put a wallpaper aside from on the lockscreen so go hide in youre icave
Punctuation!!!
Sadly you're right. I'm an open source supporter and have been expecting great things to emerge from Android but ever since the release I have yet to see anything that's worth living an eyebrow for. Not even anything small to keep me hungry for more.
shank:
20,000 apps on the iPhone? I guess that shows that you can never have too many versions of iFart or an iPhone Flashlight...
The App store was free until just a few weeks ago when they started allowing paid apps- so now we are starting to see some of the serious developers. Also remember that there is only on iPhone and there will be several different versions of Android phones (and possibly NetBooks?).
When someone releases a real GPS navigation program on the iPhone let me know and I will pull mine out of the closet and see if it is worth me re-activating with AT&T.
It's called xgps. U have to jailbreak though. Plus it's free. And don't give me that you don't have to jailbreak android. U have to root the fucking phone to get it to do anything.
really MIA? My girlfriend's G1 isn't rooted and has a NES emulator and real time GPS navigation(free). Fail.
That keyboard is seriously needing some better texturing.
yes.... it seems like a rushed job to me. Hopefully, it being open source, someone could make a better looking one. Also, I'd prefer if the letter popped up above my thumb, not in a completely unrelated place.
Yes, you can make replacement keyboards. The made the new input api really flexible, you could even do stuff like Palm Graffiti if you wanted too develop it.
I predict it will take approximately 30 seconds after Cupcake is released before an identical clone to the iPhone's keyboard is released on the market.
after cupcake what will we complain about?
Mostly that it doesn't look asthetically very polished like the Palm OS or the Ipod. Oh and lack of decent hardware. And if there's decent apps. That's about it I guess. personally i think if they gave it much nicer more realistic icons and did some better texturing throughout the interface it would have much more mass appeal.
My complaint - ok, maybe complaint is not the correct word - my WISH - is for increased bluetooth profile support:
BIP: Basic Imaging Profile
wow
Just get a good version of cupcake over to JesusFreke.....then I will put it on my g1
Finally! I can't wait! i can finally quick reply to texts!
I for one hope this bring full exchange support and ms excel view/edit. For me its the only thing that andriod really lacks (well that and more than one option in phone, but thats just a matter of time). I would think/hope paid apps means its coming soon.
before that troll comes and says 'its free' on a certain phone, if you cant multi task (important when editing exel/documents/business emailing) or copy/paste on your phone, you have a toy not a tool.
I can tell you for an absolute fact that the Cupcake system update will not give you either of those features. I seriously doubt that Android will natively support Exchange or XLS files any time soon, but I'm pretty sure there are some apps on the market that will give you the functionality you're looking for.
A2DP and it's transformation will be complete. *Darth Vader breathing*.
There is no cake
HOOORAAAYYYY