ANDROID 2.3, aka Gingerbread : RedLine Computing reviews
To fully understand what this new phenomenon is, we have to start at the beginning. Let’s have a look at the history behind Android 2.3. Android was initially developed by Android Inc., as a mobile operating system. It is based upon a modified version of Linux Kernel 2.6. Google purchased the firm in 2005. Several well known companies and Google joined their hands and formed a consortium and formed Open Handset Alliance. This ambitious project, OHA, developed and presented ANDROID to the global community. This consortium of 78 companies, software, hardware and telecom companies, created history. Android made a sensational impact world wide, its waves continued to make ripples.
The companies who collaborated to create Open Handset Alliance, are Texas Instruments, Broadcom Corporation, Google, HTC, Intel, LG, Marvell Technology Group, Motorola, Nvidia, Qualcomm, Samsung Electronics, Sprint Nextel, T-mobile and so on. It was an ambitious project to develop open standards for mobile devices. When this newly formed Open Handset Alliance unveiled their very first product, Android, as a mobile device platform, the entire world took a long stride towards the most efficient mobile devices. The success was beyond every one’s expectations, and 14 more companies offered to join the OHA on 9 December, 2008, including Packet Video, ARM Holdings, Atheros Communications, Asustek Computer Inc., Garmin Ltd, Soft Bank, Sony Ericsson, Toshiba Corp, Vodafone Group Plc etc.
More research and development was undertaken by the authorized ADSP, Android Open Source Project. Android has been available for every one under a free software, open source license since 21 October, 2008. Notably update periods were short and brief. Android OS smart phones dominated the market of smart phones. During July, August and September of 2010 the market share exceeded 43%, quite impressive performance indeed. Application programs are being developed for Android, by thousands and thousands of developers every day. Such ‘apps’, application programs, exceed 100,000 now. Google runs an online store: Android Market, for Android apps, though apps can be downloaded from other sites as well. Google released most of the Android codes under apache license, a free software and open source license.
Notable Android features are many that included the recording and watching videos through camcorder mode, uploading videos to YouTube and pictures to Picasa directly from phone, new soft key board with text prediction, Bluetooth A2DP and AVRCP support, ability to automatically connect to Bluetooth headset within a certain distance, animated screen transitions etc.
By 15 September, 2009 more features were added to the list; such as integrated camera, camcorder and gallery interface, updated voice search with faster response and deeper integration with native applications including the feature to dial contacts, updated technology support for CDMA EVDO, 802.1x, VPNs, and text to speech engine, support for WVGA screen resolution, Google free turn by turn navigation, an improved Android Market experience, updated search experience to allow searching bookmarks, history, contacts and the web from home screen, gesture frame work and Gesture-builder development tool etc. Gallery now enables users to select multiple photos to be deleted if necessary.
Again more improvements were introduced on 26 October, 2009 and they were optimized hardware speed, Microsoft Exchange support, improved Google Maps 3.1.2, new contact lists, revamped UI, new browser UI and HTMLS support, better contrast ratio for back ground, built in flash support for camera, digital zoom, support for more screen resolutions and sizes, better contrast ratio for backgrounds, motion event class enhanced to track multi touch events, improved virtual key board, Bluetooth 2.1, live wall papers, etc.
And once again new Android features were continued to be added, on 20 May, 2010, in the version 2.2 Froyo, frozen yoghurt. SDK was released and some of the changes are improved application launcher with short cuts to phone and browser applications, general Android OS [operating system] speed, memory and performance optimization, additional application speed improvements courtesy of JIT implementation, integration of chrome’s V8 java script engine into the browser application, USB tethering and Wi-Fi hotspot functionality, added an option to disable data access over mobile net work, updated market application with batch and automatic update features and so on.
Android supports connectivity technologies such as IDEN, CDMA, GSM/EDGE, EV-DO, UMTS, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, LTE, WiMAX etc. And this Android features enable these forms of messaging such as SMS and MMS, and this include threaded text messaging. Android push messaging service incorporates Android cloud to Device Messaging framework [C2DM]. Web browser in this Android is based on the open source Web kit layout engine together with Chrome’s V8 Java script engine. And the web browser scores 93 out of 100 on the ACID3 test. Java Virtual Machine is not there in Android platform, though the applications are written in Java. Java byte code is not executed either. Java classes get recompiled into Dalvik executable. Android runs on Dalvik Virtual Machine. It is specially designed for Android, and it is optimized for battery powered mobile devices, though it has limited memory and CPU.
Android supports these media formats: audio, video and still media formats. They are H263, H264 [in 3GP or MP4 container], MPEG-4SP, AMR, AMR-WB [in 3GP container], AAC, HE-AAC [in MP-4 or 3GP container] MP3, MIDI, Ogg Vorbis, WAV, JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP.
Android has streaming media support as given here: RTP, RTSP streaming [3GPP PSS, ISMA], HTML progressive download [HTML5 tag]. Adobe flash streaming [RTMP] is coordinated through Adobe Flash Player plugin. Apple HTTP live streaming is done in collaboration with third party media player. Adobe HTTP dynamic Streaming would be supported by an upgraded version of Flash plugin. Support of Microsoft Smooth Streaming would be through the long awaited port of silver light pulgin to Android.
There are plenty of extremely useful additional hardware supports. You will find it comfortable and very useful to manage your video cameras or still cameras, touch screens, accelerometers, GPS, magnetometers, gyroscopes, proximity and pressure sensors, accelerated 2D bit blits [with hardware orientation, scaling, pixel format conversion] accelerated 3D graphics, and thermometers. HTC Hero handsets have features like multi touch, and this sort of native support for multi touch is made available for Android. Android must have been very happy to support Bluetooth, A2DP and AVRCP, in version 1.5, sending files OPP, and accessing phone book [PBAP]. And these features were added in version 2.0 also. Voice dialing and sending contacts were added in Android version 2.2.
Handset layouts are remarkable. The platform can support larger library, such as VGA, 2D graphics, 3D graphics library based on Open GL 2.0 specifications and traditional smart phone layouts. A light weight relational database, SQlite, is used for data storage purposes.
Android Market has plenty of phone based applications in store for you to download and install to target hardware over the air without the use of your PC. Only free applications were available at the beginning. Since 19th February, 2009 ‘paid for applications’ were available in the United States, on the Android Market. This market on line has been expanding since then. As on 3rd August, 2010, it was reported that in excess of 100,000 Android applications have been down loaded, although there are other markets such as Getjar and GlideMe. Also, Android has the advantage of using the phone as a wireless or wired hotspot [All 2.2 Froyo phones unofficial on phones running more than 1.6 via applications in the Android Market, for instance PdaNet] . The tethering is supported by Android. The laptop 3G phone connection on Android phone software, is needed to be installed on both the phone and the laptop.
Google announced the introduction of the Android Market on 28 August, 2008 which was presented and opened to the public on 22 October, 2008. From 13th February, 2009 onwards paid applications were made available for United Kingdom and United States Developers. From 30th September, 2010 onwards the doors were opened for 29 more countries offering these applications against payment. Applications and games for Android powered devices were officially offered for download in Android Market location.
Google’s upcoming Operating System update ANDROID 2.3 Gingerbread seems to have caused a lot of excitement in the market. The leaked SONY Experia X12 Anzu seems to have been instrumental for such wide publicity.
Sony Ericsson Anzu is to be equipped with’ Android 2.3, if the leaked out specifications revealed correct information. Anzu is known as XPERIA X12, and this is equipped with 4.3 inch LCD display with 854 x 480 pixel resolution, an 800 MHz Qualcomm MSM 7230 processor, and of course, an added attraction of 12 mega pixel camera with 720p video capture and a HDMI out put to ensure your enjoyment on the big screen. We can sure look forward to an interesting Sony Ericsson Anzu in the near future, may be at the beginning of the new year, 2011, with more features.
The speculations are that the latest Xperia model will be equipped with Android 2.3 aka Gingerbread on board. But again some rumors say it will have Froyo (Android 2.2) packed in.
Nevertheless Xperia X12 looks impressive with its 4.3 inch LCD screen and an excellent finish that will not go unnoticed.
Android 2.3, Gingerbread will have some of these declared features: support for WebM video play back and also for Near Field Communication. There will be improved copy-paste functions and improved social networking features.
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I think this Post was written before the launch of Android Ginger bread. Nexus S is out now with Android Gingerbread. You can have a look!
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