And with that, Google has released the SDK for Android 1.6, a.k.a. "Donut." Developers can go nuts over the fine-tunings of it, but the takeaway for the consumer is that it allows Android devices to run on CDMA and in different resolutions and screen sizes -- should help to vary up the options currently available. Additionally, the update will add QuickSearch à la webOS for scavenging through contacts, apps, and the internet in one text field, as we saw back at Google I/O, a text-to-speech API with translation capabilities, and that revamped market we spied earlier this month. Most interesting is an one-off line that from the official developer blog that says, "you can expect to see devices running Android 1.6 as early as October." That October launch applies to quite a number of upcoming Android handsets -- Sprint Hero, Motorola CLIQ, possibly even the InstinctQ and a Verizon-bound Sholes all fit the bill quite nicely. Want to see more of the new update in action? Video of +10 adorableness after the break.
For god sake release 2.0 already so we see mind blowing phones, many cell phones companies refuse to release something until 2.0 get released to solve multimedia playback problems and support multi touch
@DR House 2.0 should be out next year as well as 2.1. There was no 1.2, 1.3 it went 1.0, 1.1, 1.5, 1.6. 2.0 is considered a major update and Android should see one every year as well as a minor update.
@deinfinityx just because your phone is running it, doesn't mean it's coming to the G1. I can tell that you rooted your phone, since an official release isn't out yet, but what about people who don't want to root their phone. though, this doesn't affect me, cuz my G1 is rooted, and I'm getting the cliq, these newbs need someone to stick up 4 them.
@chizenguy5 I am aware of that, but after this whole story broke one of the google devs said it was coming to the G1, but barely. 2.0 is another story but every G1 should be getting Donut since it is about half the share of Android phones right now.
Doesn't matter if it did. The G1 is too damn slow. Hopefully by the time this comes out there will be newer handsets, with a keyboard, that has better hardware. remember the G1 is nothing more then the polished prototype Android was running on. IMHO it should have never been released.
was not speculation. they just did not say which version it would start at. 1.6 was probably still in development and the announcement included versions in development. i suspect when all the non slider handsets with larger screens come out they will do so with a newer version not for current handsets.
That's definitely just your opinion as I and the millions of others who use a G1 every day are pretty damned happy it was released. And no, its not too slow at all.
@Fred: True, but if they want to pick a good share of the bigger companies which use Exchange they should implement it. Open-source or at least free-to-use should always be implemented aswell, but more choice is always better.
As much as I agree Fred, you can't live in a bubble. Exchange is the de facto standard used by must of us in corporate land all over the globe. In order to have a single view on a single device (in this case an Android phone) then I need to be able to connect to Google _AND_ my work email/calendar hosted on... Exchange. This is why apple has had so much success with the iPhone. Even Mac OSX Snow Leopard has built in Exchange support, thats better than even Windows :) We trialed Android at work as a replacement to Blackberry, but without Exchange integration it won't get to first base. Dissapointing as I love the open nature of the platform, the UI of the device and the nice HTC devices themselves. Google ___NEED____ Exchange integration, in fact HTC already have an Exchange sync in some markets, but Google need to stop trying to force people to switch to Google Apps and let them get their by their own momentum and choice.
Except Android was never targeting a business market in the first place, unlike Blackberry. The only reason the iPhone had Exchange was because the customers clamored for it. It'll only come if there is a lot of demand for it and it doesn't help that it is proprietary.
I'm using an android phone as a place holder for Windows Mobile 7. It seems these days that mobile OSs have become just as much a popularity game as desktop OSs. No one seems to care which is better or has more robust features, simply which is the most popular.
After using Android for the past six months I can say it is years behind windows mobile. Don't get me wrong it has a lot of things going for it, nice API, capacitive touch support, and google integration. But it has horrible copy and paste support, and even worse multimedia support. The "open souceness" of Android is also debatable with many developers giving up on good projects because they would need to touch a part of google's locked down code.
I can see this becoming a large rant so I'm going to end it here. Android is an OK OS, especially for how young it is, but it is nowhere near as robust as Windows Mobile. I think once Microsoft puts a face lift on it with miltitouch support and a good API, both of which I am expecting with WinMo7, it will best all the so called "next gen" mobile OSs that are out there.
Hopefully at the point in which they come out with Android 2.0, it'll be late October 2010 and my 2 year contract will be up, allowing me to get a brand new Android phone....
well, unless T-Mo buys out Sprint. If that happens, all bets are off the table.
I'm using an un-rooted Rogers HTC Dream I look forward to this update.
I really wish Google would update some of the stock android widgets, like the music player widget or the calender widget, to include a bit more functionality.
Yeah its a wrap....Cyanogen has been breaking us off of a chunk of Donut for about a month now.....Can't wait until the hero builds get a taste of 1.6...but thats another monster to tackle
if the G1 dont get the 2.0 update nether should the moto cliq coz there the same spac phones, coz wernt they saying that the G1 didnt have enought onboard memory but it has the same as the moto cliq
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Not to the G1 :(
The G1 is getting it, all that rumor stuff saying the G1 won't get 1.6 or 2.0 was all speculation with little fact. My G1 is running it right now.
XDA Developers my friend, it'll get Donut.
2010 = 1.7
2011 = 1.8
2012 = 1.9?
For god sake release 2.0 already so we see mind blowing phones, many cell phones companies refuse to release something until 2.0 get released to solve multimedia playback problems and support multi touch
@DR House 2.0 should be out next year as well as 2.1. There was no 1.2, 1.3 it went 1.0, 1.1, 1.5, 1.6. 2.0 is considered a major update and Android should see one every year as well as a minor update.
@deinfinityx
just because your phone is running it, doesn't mean it's coming to the G1.
I can tell that you rooted your phone, since an official release isn't out yet, but what about people who don't want to root their phone.
though, this doesn't affect me, cuz my G1 is rooted, and I'm getting the cliq, these newbs need someone to stick up 4 them.
XDA DEVELOPER , They are just greater and greater...
@chizenguy5 I am aware of that, but after this whole story broke one of the google devs said it was coming to the G1, but barely. 2.0 is another story but every G1 should be getting Donut since it is about half the share of Android phones right now.
Doesn't matter if it did. The G1 is too damn slow. Hopefully by the time this comes out there will be newer handsets, with a keyboard, that has better hardware. remember the G1 is nothing more then the polished prototype Android was running on. IMHO it should have never been released.
was not speculation. they just did not say which version it would start at. 1.6 was probably still in development and the announcement included versions in development. i suspect when all the non slider handsets with larger screens come out they will do so with a newer version not for current handsets.
@John Doe..
That's definitely just your opinion as I and the millions of others who use a G1 every day are pretty damned happy it was released. And no, its not too slow at all.
I already have 1.6 on my G1:) Long live xda!
My G1 better get t.his.... i mean it will, but i want it without going to XDA
LONG LIVE G1
LOVE LIVE XDA
HOOW DARE YOU NOT GO THERE
Had donut for a while now. Go cyanogen.
That android and all his confectionery treats are adorable.
yea XDA is the SHlT.....im running "pieces'' of donut...2012? for 1.9, I dont think so...I bet we get 1.6 soon, and 2.0 by February 2010.
Good to see the os continue to move forward. However, in the video when he began the Android Market segment, did he say Anroid?
no MS Exchange support in native OS = fail
Proprietary MS Exchange instead of open standards (like IMAP) = FAIL.
@Fred: True, but if they want to pick a good share of the bigger companies which use Exchange they should implement it.
Open-source or at least free-to-use should always be implemented aswell, but more choice is always better.
As much as I agree Fred, you can't live in a bubble. Exchange is the de facto standard used by must of us in corporate land all over the globe. In order to have a single view on a single device (in this case an Android phone) then I need to be able to connect to Google _AND_ my work email/calendar hosted on... Exchange. This is why apple has had so much success with the iPhone. Even Mac OSX Snow Leopard has built in Exchange support, thats better than even Windows :) We trialed Android at work as a replacement to Blackberry, but without Exchange integration it won't get to first base. Dissapointing as I love the open nature of the platform, the UI of the device and the nice HTC devices themselves. Google ___NEED____ Exchange integration, in fact HTC already have an Exchange sync in some markets, but Google need to stop trying to force people to switch to Google Apps and let them get their by their own momentum and choice.
Except Android was never targeting a business market in the first place, unlike Blackberry. The only reason the iPhone had Exchange was because the customers clamored for it. It'll only come if there is a lot of demand for it and it doesn't help that it is proprietary.
I want donut, and the european hero.
but alas, the man is holdin me down, yet again, so I must get the cliq.
eeeeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwww
I don't like android in 3D
This will put the final nail in Windows Mobile coffin, now that a slew of
handset makers have finally abandoned Windows Mobile.
I don't think anyone who abandoned WinMo was actually selling devices anyway.
The potential for higher resolution will definitely pull in new android users when better hardware arrives though.
I'm using an android phone as a place holder for Windows Mobile 7. It seems these days that mobile OSs have become just as much a popularity game as desktop OSs. No one seems to care which is better or has more robust features, simply which is the most popular.
After using Android for the past six months I can say it is years behind windows mobile. Don't get me wrong it has a lot of things going for it, nice API, capacitive touch support, and google integration. But it has horrible copy and paste support, and even worse multimedia support. The "open souceness" of Android is also debatable with many developers giving up on good projects because they would need to touch a part of google's locked down code.
I can see this becoming a large rant so I'm going to end it here. Android is an OK OS, especially for how young it is, but it is nowhere near as robust as Windows Mobile. I think once Microsoft puts a face lift on it with miltitouch support and a good API, both of which I am expecting with WinMo7, it will best all the so called "next gen" mobile OSs that are out there.
*waits on cyanogen*
The android man! His roms are better than the stock, best ever.
HULK like green donut!
Has anything been as overated as Android has been?
yawn...
Anything Apple comes to mind.
WinMo. The difference is that it was only overrated by Ballmer :P
Pre was WAY over the top over-rated, IMO. Thanks to the media hype at CES, no less.
Who is eating android?
Sweet. I've been quite happy with my G1. It'll be interesting to see what else good/bad Google can do to phones :)
Hopefully at the point in which they come out with Android 2.0, it'll be late October 2010 and my 2 year contract will be up, allowing me to get a brand new Android phone....
well, unless T-Mo buys out Sprint. If that happens, all bets are off the table.
I'm using an un-rooted Rogers HTC Dream I look forward to this update.
I really wish Google would update some of the stock android widgets, like the music player widget or the calender widget, to include a bit more functionality.
But will it have bluetooth file transfer like even the cheapest bt enabled phone??
Yeah its a wrap....Cyanogen has been breaking us off of a chunk of Donut for about a month now.....Can't wait until the hero builds get a taste of 1.6...but thats another monster to tackle
if the G1 dont get the 2.0 update nether should the moto cliq coz there the same spac phones, coz wernt they saying that the G1 didnt have enought onboard memory but it has the same as the moto cliq
wrong the click has
Processor Qualcomm MSM7201A
Processor Clock Speed 528 MHz
RAM 256 MB
Flash ROM 512 MB
source of info http://developer.motorola.com/products/handsets/cliq/
and the g1 has
Memory ROM: 256 MB
RAM: 192 MB
but if you look on this chart it says it got the same rom size http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/10/android-battle-cliq-edition/
Demo of the emulator http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LTjUhnZ_ZY
The latest Cyanogen ROM is the place to go if you can't wait and know what you're doing ;)
http://www.cyanogenmod.com/
I guess this clears the way for the Sony Rachael.
wahoo cant wait to dl this on my dev1