Comments on: Android 2.2 Screenshots: My Favorite Features in Froyo

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 05:09:46 +0000

What I like:

Gmail app…can now make the default text size bigger.

Lock screen…can use a PIN or password instead of pattern.

ONE CALENDAR!

Contacts…sort by last name.

Bluetooth voice dialing.

Screen will rotate to landscape in BOTH directions.

Long press on home shows you last 8 apps instead of 6.

Long press on launcher shows thumbnails of all your screens.

By: blog.3dbloke.com/

blog.3dbloke.com/ — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 16:30:55 +0000

…and the Display now has the option to Auto-adjust its brightness. This is nice; before Froyo I always found it necessary to remember to manually change to a brighter setting before venturing outdoors.

By: blog.3dbloke.com/

blog.3dbloke.com/ — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 13:31:23 +0000

I recently received the Froyo OTA update on my N1. Very smooth and painless.

One thing I’ve noticed is that the N1 no longer switches out of standby when I remove the power cable, which I see as a definite improvement.

One other point: I use the Swype official beta (1.56.30) and it stopped working after the Froyo update. I uninstalled Swype and then re-ran the installer to bring it back. OK now.

By: Allan Tépper

Allan Tépper — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 16:47:41 +0000

For those of us who constantly need to input text in more than one language, Froyo also facilitates switching the keyboard layout and/or associated language (for spell checking) directly from the keyboard. This feature was available in the iPhone from day one, but something that in Android has required a 3rd-party app before the arrival of Froyo.

By: seguetonowhere

seguetonowhere — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 23:44:00 +0000

Just caught this thread, but my favorite feature is on the keyboard, if you slide your finger up off the top of the keyboard, you get a couple more rows of keys, one for common punctuation (but not parens, for some reason) and another for numbers. Way quicker than holding the “.” key.

By: Jacob Roeland

Jacob Roeland — Tue, 25 May 2010 17:48:25 +0000

@ martin.brook No we’re CDMA. So yeah I guess I’m just royally screwed til June. What’s funny though is last night, I cannot lie, I dreamed I had a Nexus One running Froyo. Oh that was a sweet dream.

By: Daniel Bentley

Daniel Bentley — Mon, 24 May 2010 22:18:37 +0000

The Hulu issue is on Hulu’s side. They recognise the device as a mobile device and assume it can’t play the video content. There’s a debug hack to get around it.

I can’t wait for the HTC Sense devices to get 2.2, I just hope it isn’t too long!

By: Mark Linford

Mark Linford — Mon, 24 May 2010 21:34:40 +0000

I’m really impressed with the browser speedups. I ran the Spider test on Froyo and Eclair (on the EVO 4G):

Froyo: http://bit.ly/aUoa05
Eclair: http://bit.ly/bWPs1e

Basically, there’s an average of over 2x speed improvement. Some tests were almost 10x faster!

It’s not just benchmarks, either. The browser experience is an order of magnitude better.

By: Jesse Newcomb

Jesse Newcomb — Mon, 24 May 2010 20:43:30 +0000

Gina can u give us your review of the EVO I have one reserved and I would like to know what I am getting into.

By: steppek

steppek — Mon, 24 May 2010 18:04:46 +0000

I use gmail for my personal email and also have Exchange from work. Exchange setup was cake! (pun intended) Also supported security policy from my Exchange server requiring a pin to log into the phone. Worked Perfectly.

By the way, you can set up gmail as an Exchange Active Server. Using the server m.google.com and your username (without the @gmail.com) and pass…works. I know since I set up my iPad with gmail as Exchange so I don’t need iTunes to sync Contacts and Calendar.