- UI refinements for simplicity and speed
- Faster, more intuitive text input
- One-touch word selection and copy/paste
- Improved power management
- Control over applications
- New ways of communicating, organizing
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Android 2.3 = Gingerbread,what you need to know!
Android 2.3 features and specifications
Android 2.3 features include improved copy and paste and support for WebM video playback. The WebM Project confirmed that "WebM support in Android is expected in the Gingerbread release". WebM files are compressed with the VP8 video codec, which Google purchased and open-sourced earlier this year.
Google has confirmed that "the platform offers built-in support for the VP8 open video compression format and the WebM open container format."
In terms of copy and paste, Android now has one-touch word selection. Pressing on a word enters a free-selection mode - you can adjust the selection area as needed by dragging a set of bounding arrows to new positions, then copy the bounded area by pressing anywhere in the selection area.
And it's goodbye to trackballs with new Android 2.3 handsets, too. For text entry, you can slide-press to enter a cursor mode, then reposition the cursor easily and accurately by dragging the cursor arrow. With both the selection and cursor modes, no use of a trackball is needed, says Google.
You can see it in action here.
There is no improvement in screen resolution support beyond 854x480pixels which means that Android tablets with a resolution of 1024×600 will still sport black bands around the edges of the screen for most apps. So Gingerbread is still not tablet ready, it seems.
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