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Ten Features To Love About Android 1.5

Posted by kdawson on from the catchup-and-leapfrog dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Last month, Google officially announced the Android 1.5 update, dubbed 'cupcake.' The new software is apparently ready to roll out to Android-powered devices beginning tomorrow. Make no mistake, Android 1.5 is a major upgrade — they could have called it 2.0. The software brings a host of new capabilities, some of which can't be found on rival mobile platforms, including video recording and sharing."

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  1. Re:Are there more than 20 apps for it? by Achromatic1978 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    And how open is this Android thing really going to be? Google has already demonstrated that it is willing to pull certain apps that T-mobile doesn't like.

    Odd. I mean it's not like Apple would do exactly the same thing over apps AT&T don't like...

  2. Re:Welcome to Japan circa 2001 by mgblst · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    . For that matter, the screen res was 352x416, the highest at the time, and still higher than most cells

    Really, higher than 640x480, which some HTC and iPaq phones had 3 years ago? Looks like you are doing it as well, oh and btw, your nokia is a shitty phone. Tacking on everything bar the kitchen sink doesn't make it so great.

  3. Re:Why would that be a showstopper? by moon3 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    What about people that have hundreds of thousands lines of C/C++ code written, do you suppose we throw that out of window or spend another hundreds of hours rewriting the stuff to pretty inferior Java, the single paradigm language, interpreted, corporation controlled, non-ISO, non-standard, slow, just to enable it to run on the platform ? What about may be 90% of all open source/GPL code out there, that is written in C/C++, what about that ? Should we trash it all and start all over because of Google has an affair with the Sun ? Because Google want developers to use second rate interpreted language while Google's own applications enjoy native speed, all the C/C++ code out there and all?

  4. Re:and a million things to hate about it by GooberToo · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Do not forget that Google's own applications run native, that means your applications is penalized by using inferior interface.

    Total BS you idiot troll! Their own applications run byte code. The fucking code is available for all to see. Here's a hit, the source ends with '.java'.

    Any other lies you want to make up?

  5. Re:and a million things to hate about it by moon3 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Do you even comprehend how many disadvantages you get with Java?

    How much for example open source code is Java and how much is C/C++ ? They all have the choice, they all have chosen C/C++.