| The twelve million lines code of the Android has gone | | | | improvement in battery life could be seen. |
| through yet another major update nicknamed Froyo. | | | | Sweeter than sugar for most Android phone users is |
| The Froyo is now the seventh upgrade to the | | | | the fact that the new Froyo browser now supports |
| Google's most acclaimed Smartphone OS. Since its | | | | Adobe Flash. This new feature comes as a blessing |
| release in September 2008, it has gone through many | | | | to net surfers. The good thing is that the flash can |
| updates. | | | | be brought to use when the user wants it with the |
| At present, the two main contenders in the | | | | browser's on demand option. Turning it on allows the |
| Smartphone OS world are the Google's Android and | | | | user to use flash by clicking a Flash object. The Flash |
| Apple's iOS 4. With the new Froyo update to the | | | | rendering isn't as impressive as a desktop but it will |
| Android Phones, Google has bashed Apple's OS and | | | | do for a phone. |
| Android has left iOS 4 far behind. Almost all the | | | | The user interface has been kept almost the same. |
| performance benchmarks have proven that Froyo | | | | The importance of this 2.2 upgrade is that it has |
| has outperformed Apple. | | | | fixed the small bugs and glitches present throughout |
| It is mindboggling to comprehend the drastic | | | | the OS. The Android users complain that its user |
| improvement in the Android OS. There is day night | | | | interface is far more complex and ungraceful while |
| difference between the original Android and now the | | | | compared to the iPhone or the web OS of the Palm. |
| updated Froyo version. The Android executes the | | | | The little tweaks made by Froyo have tried to get |
| applications in a virtual environment, called the Dalvik. | | | | rid of this complain and they are quite successful. |
| The major feature that the Froyo has brought to | | | | There has also been an addition of a task manager |
| the Android is the changes in the Dalvik system, | | | | to the Android. It is a little hard to find hidden deep in |
| giving a just in time compiler to the Dalvik. This just in | | | | the settings. The main thing is that you can now end |
| time compiler has given the new Android 2.2 | | | | the unwanted processes and apps that eat up the |
| approximately 5x performance hike while processing | | | | precious memory. Another of the nice features is |
| CPU heavy code. | | | | that now apps can be installed on the micro SD card |
| This has made the working experience on the | | | | too, thus relieving the user from the limited small |
| Android far smoother. The lagging and stuttering are | | | | internal storage of the phone. The list of features is |
| long gone. You can now enjoy working in a friskier | | | | limitless but one thing is for sure, the new Android |
| environment without getting irritated with the lag | | | | Froyo update has taken Android to the next level. It |
| that was present in the earlier versions. Google claims | | | | has become a completely different product now, far |
| that this performance boost is accompanied with | | | | better than it was firstly introduced. |
| better battery life but in reality no such drastic | | | | |