As I’m on the last legs on my current iPhone 3G, running OS 3.0, the time has come to look for a viable replacement. Will it be the iPhone 4G that has been leaked so many times you’d actually think a worm had eaten its way through the apple (groan), or perhaps the only conceivable competition in the form of phones that will run Android 2.2 (Froyo) that was announced at the Google I/O conference recently?
Here’s a list of what works in Android 2.2 Tethering and Hot Spot capability
Adobe Flash and Air support (Not just HTML5 like Apple) Automatic application update Apps can be installed on an SD Card Voice triggers Improved Search Contextually adsense for mobile advertisement (Can’t say I’m a fan of my mobile device being a mobile ad platform) Camera and video usability improvements A Just In Time (JIT) compiler that yeilds 2x – 5x speed up on the same hardware 2x-3x javascript performance improvements in the browser that ran laps around iPad in a demonstration. – using the V8 Javascript engine Cloud-to-Device messaging API for optimized delivery of push notifications that can drive Android Intents App data backup API Application crash reporting details for developers with lots of details That’s a nice list that gets the geek in me excited. The things I’m apprehensive about, are the form factor of any new devices, and how it all fits into my current tech ecosystem. It would be easy to import everything from my old iPhone to a new one, with all my most used apps that are ingrained into my life, starting from scratch would be pretty sucky.
May 21 2010, 11:17am | Original Link »
