Google Outlines Feature Set For Android 2.2

evdotorrey writes "Google announced new features and improvements for Android 2.2. New features include Flash and HTML 5 support, faster browser performance using the V8 engine, Microsoft Exchange support, a Portable Hotspot feature that makes your phone a Wi-Fi hotspot, and many more exciting features." An anonymous reader adds some more on the new release, codenamed Froyo: "Google claims the operating system will be from two to five times faster thanks to advances made in the compilers and the Dalvik virtual machine it uses, and how it is ported to new processors and platforms. On the enterprise front the new operating system comes with full support for Microsoft Exchange, including access to the global address book and the ability to translate native security features to mobile handsets. APIs have also been added to allow controls such as the automatic wiping of missing handsets and other remote management features. Google is also making its voice translation and search APIs open to developers, and showed off an application developed for the handset that allowed real time translation from English to French."

TFA!!!!!

[adolf]

First, I read the comments. There were three. I modded them all up, because they all seemed useful within the confines of Slashdot's moderation parameters. I frequently have mod points, apparently because people think my moderation is fair. However, by posting this (I refuse to jump through hoops to post as AC), those moderations were undone. Sorry.

The reason is simple: After moderating, I read TFA. Therein, I see that about every third sentence ends with an exclamation point! This artificial excitement really annoying!

For instance:

With Android 2.2, the Chrome web browser will have full Adobe Flash Player 10.1 support to allow you to view flash-based websites, play flash games, and more! This is something that not even the iPhone is capable of doing!

See what I mean! It's a very loud article!

It's like there aren't any there any others [google.com] to pick from!

That said, I might be qualified to be an Android fanboi! For instance, today at work, I used my phone to help me align and plumb two antenna systems! The day before that, it helped me cook a stew! And on Monday of this week, it even walked my dog!

But this quantity of exclamatory remarks is unsettling! Please, timothy, given your lineage here, I expect better editing!

Sincerely!

adolf!

Re:TFA!!!!!

[Thanshin]

Second time this week I've wanted to post a sound instead of plain words.

Metal Gear's ' ! ' sound.

Re:No Wonder Why Apple Got Dumped Into 3rd Place

[Anonymous Coward]

I just switched from iPhone to Android and I find that Android devices are just too wide, too big for me. The iPhone was slim. Smoooooth. Shiny. I could place it upright on a chair and just sit on it.

But what of the Androids? They're ridiculously fat and require a concoction of KY Jelly and Preparation H to "work for me." They're so rough and unrefined -- they're the "lumberjack bears" of portable phones. Rough, I like. But I still have to go out and be able to sit down without wincing. The roughness of the operating system is fine, I'll deal with that...but please, please make something that fits in my ass! Work with me, ladies!

A speed boost for Android? Before the next iPhone?

[Sockatume]

I guess you could say that the new compiler arrived... just in time?

Re:Anonymous Cow

[bFusion]

I kind of feel this is obligatory :)

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2003/5/28/ [penny-arcade.com]

Re:Vendor / carrier upgrades

[Anonymous Coward]

Thanks. I was thinking you meant little black kids or something. This makes much more sense now!