Google to release new version of Android in Oct?
Media reported that Google is planning to launch the next version of Android, named as Gingerbread, by the third week of Oct 2010. The new version may be numbered as 3.0 and may support video chat.
Currently Android has Froyo or 2.2 version which was released in May 2010. But still many of the mobile phone and tablet manufactures use Android 2.0 version. Gingerbread is expected to have more advanced features which will be more tablet friendly.
"We support video chat today with Google Talk Video. It works on the desktop. Whether that can be repurposed and made appropriate for sipping bandwidth for mobile, it's an exercise that's under way," said Andy Rubin, Google's vice president of engineering.
Expected new features on Gingerbread are:
*
Support
for
WebM
video
playback
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Improved
copy–paste
functionalities
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Improved
social
networking
features
*
Android
Market
music
store
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Media
streaming
from
PC
library
*
Revamped
UI
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Support
for
bigger
screens
*
New
3D
Games
support
*
Support
for
video
calls
*
Support
for
WebP
image
files
The version after Gingerbread, known as Honeycomb, or Android 3.5, is expected to release by the first half of 2011.
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