Android Gingerbread Announced

At the Web 2.0 Summit, in San Francisco, Eric Schmidt said that Android 2.3, aka Gingerbread, will be rolling out “in the next few weeks.” Among its new features will be support for interacting with Near Field Communications devices and RFID tags.

Android Gingerbread is the next upgrade after the current Android 2.2. It may get its first released to the general public for Nexus One owners. It will need 512MB of RAM and 1GHz processors.

The Nexus S, is a Gingerbread-running (Android 2.3) Google phone from Samsung, and presumed sequel to be the HTC-produced Nexus One.

The biggest feature of Gingerbread is said to be its support for tablet computers. It enables video chat, and also is expected to integrate the VoIP service into its mobile OS, provided that the carrier allows it. It is said to support Google TV, with bigger screen sizes up to a resolution of 1366×768.

Google’s Gingerbread (Android 2.3) will precede Honeycomb (Android 3.0).

A tweet from Russian industry insider Eldar Murtazin says that the MotoPad will be a 7-inch device, the first one to run Android 3.0. The MotoPad has been rumored for the better part of a year. In May, Motorola Mobility CEO Sanjay Jha said:

“I think that a companion 7- to 10-inch device in a home will become very important, [both] as an augmentation to your TV experience [and] also as a way of walking around the house and streaming TV to that device. I think we’re very focused in participating in this convergence that’s coming between mobility and home, and I think you will actually see some products from us in a very short period of time.”

According to a recent DigiTimes article, the upcoming tablet should be powered by an Nvidia Tegra2 platform, and have a 10.1-inch screen from Sharp. The Motorola Android 3.0-based slate is expected to hit mass production before the end of the year, and should land on shelves soon afterward.

Acer has also delayed the release of its ARM/Android-based tablet PC until Android 3.0 becomes available. Gingerbread is reportedly designed to fit the larger screens of tablet PCs.

Source : www.dailywireless.org/

[Technorati Tags:
google,
android,
gingerbread,
honeycomb]