what features will froyo do for the x

[sniffs]

Yeah, fastflip.googlelabs.com.. I just tried it on my Droid Inc and it's kind of laggy.. there's really no comparison to the fastflip running on an iPhone..

 

[CarbonOak]

I've been watching member feedback in the "What have you found in Froyo" thread in the EVO forum.

I borrowed from the first post, read every post thereafter, removed all the HTC stuff related stuff, and added my own comments. From what I can tell, these are some of the things I expect us to benefit from:

1. New Market widget.
2. New dock settings.
3. New accessibility settings.
4. New voice input and output settings (like selecting default engine).
5. Google search widget has more options.
6. New Android news and weather widget.
7. Improvements to managed application settings.
8. 8 (vs. 4) apps in recent app list and are no longer "boxed in".
9. Safe search can now be disabled in YouTube and voice search.
10. New options in Gmail app (including copy & paste).
11. Keyboard now works in landscape in either orientation.
12. Universal Search: You can select what you want it to search, i.e. people, calendar, texts, or apps instead of it bombarding you with a search that covers every single thing on the phone.
13. App sharing.
14. Manage apps are separated in 4 tabs: downloaded,running, all and on SD card (actually we already have this ability - just not in tabbed format).
15. Lock screen time delay added as well as pin and password options. The lock screens DO work, an added option is to set a time limit of inactivity before the lock screen enables. In other words the lock doesn't set every time the screen goes dark unless you set it to that, mine is set to lock after 5 minutes of inactivity for example (this might be an HTC function.
16. Automatic update install as a check box in the market under each app.
17. Speech to text was updated too. (if anyone other then me uses it). You now have settings for how it filters bad language. Before it blocked everything vulgar. Now you can set it to filter lower, or shut it off.
18. Bluetooth voice dialing.
19. Note: you can't move all installed apps to SD - the app must be developed to allow this functionality.

Subjective improvements:

1. Improved WiFi range.
2. Google Maps renders almost instantaneously on a fast connection.
3. Screen transitions in apps are smoother.
4. Improved load speed for YouTube.
5. Running cooler (although a few people reported that it's actually running hotter - could be because this is not official release).
6. Due to JIT: applications load a bit faster, browsers are a bit faster, opening things like the camera app is faster, application drawer, menus, etc are a bit faster.
7. Improvements to memory management.

There might be some more discoveries as the thread continues, and after the official release is pushed, but this is where the thread sits as of now.

Interesting. Some of the those the X already has, like #8 (X has 6 previous apps) and #12.

I'm excited for mainly a few things:

• Improved performance, performance, performance
• Gmail copy and paste

 

[Cory Streater]

Interesting. Some of the those the X already has, like #8 (X has 6 previous apps) and #12.

I don't have my EVO anymore, but I think that person was mistaken. I'm pretty sure it also showed 6. Come to think of it, I think #12 was already in there too. Good catch.

 

[ottscay]

Gmail copy and paste

Dear gawd thank you! This can't come soon enough (and Gingerbread really needs to get C&P into the whole UI).

Also, more performance is good

 

[davidnc]

Be cool if the update could make the speaker louder , but I doubt thats possible .

 

[Cory Streater]

Between all the issues I'm reading about in the EVO forum, and the lower quadrant benchmarks I'm reading about in this forum - they can keep Froyo for the time being

 

[moosc]

As for number 12. I can search what ever I want or what I don't want. Menu settings search.

I don't plan on using apps to Sd

My keyboard works in all postions.

I use vlingo best voice search.

Does any one plan to use apps to sd on the X?

And lastely I may hold out and stay where I'm at. I thought froyo was supposed to be faster but it seems slower

 

[CarbonOak]

Between all the issues I'm reading about in the EVO forum, and the lower quadrant benchmarks I'm reading about in this forum - they can keep Froyo for the time being

If there really are some issues with EVO and Froyo, the "good" thing is that Motorola is different than HTC, so here's hoping that Motorola fully optimizes Froyo for the X.

 

[alphanu22]

http://sites.google.com/site/droidlife69/home/AndroidUsersGuide.pdf

336 Pages... Happy Reading-

 

[moosc]

@cory or any else do u all plan to use apps2sd? and why?

 

[bigboss]

Does apps to SD provide any advantage other than easy to backup?

Sent from my DROIDX using Tapatalk

 

[Cory Streater]

moosc: I won't be using apps2sd with 8GB of internal storage on this bad boy.

bigboss: there are a few advantages. for somewhat older devices (I can't believe the Droid is "old" but was released less than a year ago), that are getting Froyo, it makes sense to use this feature, because they have limited internal storage. Apps can eat up space fairly quickly. Storing apps in internal memory is also believed to be discouraging application development. Developers of games, for example, require a large amount of space for their apps. The limited amount of storage of some devices has made this impossible for those developers. Being able to install them on the SD will hopefully change all of that. I'm not a gamer, so it's no biggie to me.

Carbon - I agree. I think HTC rushed this one out for competitive reasons, eliminating some proper QA.

Thanks Alpha.

 

[sniffs]

@Cory, are they going to unlock the internal memory on these devices for app storage with 2.2?

If so.. do you have any documentation saying so?