Showing posts with label FroYo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label FroYo. Show all posts

Thursday, July 1, 2010

android frf91 what's new

So i just received frf91. The very first thing i noticed had to do with the car dock. It seems like new in this version the home screen will rotate when the phone is in the car. This means that the landscape use in a table for the home screen. I'm very excited about this feature. What else is new? I will post pictures as i find out. Post a comment if you make another discovery.

Monday, June 28, 2010

Android 2.2 FRF85B

It's funny with all of these system updates I'd like to see a what's new in each one. Or maybe I don't want to know? Anyway, just received FRF85B, seems to be legitimate so I've installed. Noticeably faster in the camera app. Hard to tell, but I think the browser may have eeked out a little faster too (though that may be attributed to the recent restart only). Aside from that I've not noticed anything new, and have not noticed one piece I'd like to see fixed in Froyo... The soft keyboard swipe down to hide the keyboard doesn't work the way it used to. I always have to use the back key to hide the keyboard now. The swipe left-to-right for voice input also seems more touchy... have to get it just right. Anyway, aside from that I didn't notice anything new at all? What about you? Spot something new and different?

Thursday, June 24, 2010

FRF83 Official Froyo Update Started June 23

Screenshots to follow in about an hour.
--Update--
I've already noticed lots of new changes. A new darker template for both Gmail and email applications, the browser is noticeably faster, and updated camera application. Something weird happened first reboot after the update- Google Voice disappeared from my home screen (changed to the default icon and said app not installed) so I had to delete it and drag it out from the app drawer again. As promised, here are some screenshots:


Friday, May 21, 2010

New Car Dock Screen in Android 2.2 (froyo)

While looking through the Froyo Emulator I found something else interesting. It looks like the card dock screen has been changed as well.


It looks like there is a difference between a day and night mode (and automatic which I assume senses ambient light to determine screen brightness). There are a lot of empty slots which I assume we can get custom shortcuts into, but I haven't figured out how yet.


Here are some screenshots:






Thursday, May 20, 2010

New Pin and Password Screen Lockout in Android 2.2 (FroYo)

While everyone else is out tooting their horns excitedly about tethering built into the new Android 2.2 (Froyo) release I've found something else to get excited about.


That pattern screen lock was a real deal-breaker for even enabling screen locking on my Nexus One because I didn't see much point. Anybody with enough time could look at the grease lines on the screen and come up with a likely pattern. Thankfully, it looks like Android 2.2 (Froyo) has PIN and Password screen locking options (why wasn't this in there at the beginning?). Anyway, here are some screen shots from the emulator: