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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 Culture20 · · Score: 0, Troll

    The IPhone has a lot of limitations, but the amount of apps for it makes it the killer device.

    Free or pay apps? I recently started playing the free lemonade stand game until it started asking me marketing survey questions. Delete, 1 star. Want your OS/platform to sell well in the future? Allow people to make free (beer/speech) apps! And yes, requiring someone to spend money on the dev kit, and requiring their app to be approved is a significant barrier. Granted, I potentially like the vetting of something like the app store, but the process turns lots of things that could easily be free (rdesktop, SSH, games, etc) into pay or ad-supported apps.

    The iphone has more quality apps than all other platforms have total apps combined.

    Windows mobile/CE apps have been around for evers and evers. Add Java VM, and suddenly java apps are added to the mix. Not that I like Windows mobile, but it's got a lot more freedom.

  2. i would, but data plan is risky & incomprehens by mkcmkc · · Score: 1, Troll

    I would love to have and develop for one of these, but the various service plans required to use them seem murky, incomprehensible, and extremely risky.

    • Murky and Incomprehensible: Can anyone surf one of the Android sites and figure out WTF plans you actually need to run these phones and what it will cost per year? It's worse than buying a house. I'd rather try to figure out the federal deficit.
    • Risky: I keep reading these stories about people who traveled and came home to discover a phone bill larger than my annual salary. Sorry, but I am not going to risk my financial well-being to own a whizzy phone.

    Until they can fix these problems, I'm sitting on the sidelines.

    --
    "Not an actor, but he plays one on TV."
  3. Cupcakes anyone? by DownWithMedia1.0 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Im just curious, dont people realize that Google records everything you do on Android and stores it for as long as they wish, while claiming complete ownership rights over it?? This is the same with all of their products. If the open tech community cant even see through Google's game plan, the world is truly helpless from them.