Android 2.2 Froyo New Features

The twelve million lines code of the Android has goneimprovement 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 thethe fact that the new Froyo browser now supports
Google's most acclaimed Smartphone OS. Since itsAdobe Flash. This new feature comes as a blessing
release in September 2008, it has gone through manyto 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 thebrowser's on demand option. Turning it on allows the
Smartphone OS world are the Google's Android anduser to use flash by clicking a Flash object. The Flash
Apple's iOS 4. With the new Froyo update to therendering isn't as impressive as a desktop but it will
Android Phones, Google has bashed Apple's OS anddo for a phone.
Android has left iOS 4 far behind. Almost all theThe user interface has been kept almost the same.
performance benchmarks have proven that FroyoThe 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 drasticthe OS. The Android users complain that its user
improvement in the Android OS. There is day nightinterface is far more complex and ungraceful while
difference between the original Android and now thecompared to the iPhone or the web OS of the Palm.
updated Froyo version. The Android executes theThe 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 toThere 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 inthe settings. The main thing is that you can now end
time compiler has given the new Android 2.2the unwanted processes and apps that eat up the
approximately 5x performance hike while processingprecious 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 thetoo, thus relieving the user from the limited small
Android far smoother. The lagging and stuttering areinternal storage of the phone. The list of features is
long gone. You can now enjoy working in a friskierlimitless but one thing is for sure, the new Android
environment without getting irritated with the lagFroyo update has taken Android to the next level. It
that was present in the earlier versions. Google claimshas become a completely different product now, far
that this performance boost is accompanied withbetter than it was firstly introduced.
better battery life but in reality no such drastic