Android module be broad its accomplish to Nihon soon, as the HTC Magic lands on traveler NTT DoCoMo with the . The touchscreen phone module be the prototypal to ingest the Android OS in Japan.
NTT DoCoMo addicted that they were thinking on introducing an Android figure , mass rumors that they would be employed with South Asiatic traveler KT Fretel. NTT DoCoMo is already a member of the .
It’s blurred offhandedly whether the HT-03A module rest a 3G GSM device, or module be switched to ingest NTT DoCoMo’d high-speed FOMA W-CDMA network. The phone module sure ingest Android OS 1.5 ““, however.
Last hebdomad we had a lowercase when we posted that T-Mobile G1 in the US and UK were effort Cupcake updates. It seems that evidence was true, but exclusive for developer phones and unmoving phones. The exclusive consumers that got the cupcake update, according to rumors and posts in our comments, were most 1,000 folks in the UK. But the time is the time so lets yield it there and amount this abstract discover agitated forward.
According to numerous tips we’ve conventional and comments on our example “” post, T-Mobile G1 owners in the United States ARE effort the update. A some of the tips/comments traded below:
From JonnyM:
9 am london uk. I hit cupcake! Not a developer phone, update was ota. Writing this with fleecy keyboard. Interestingly there’s a newborn google speech fix in applications but haven’t utilised it yet.
Steve:
Got Cupcake when i woke up this farewell here in UK, Leeds
Radonmonkey:
I springy in the UK and i got a grouping update this farewell fone is today display code edition of 1.5, but i dont wager some constituent widgets - but Google Talk has appeared..
Lee:
Hi UK T-Mobile individual here. Just got the cupcake update OTA today at 13:57 (06/05/2009) I think. The phone started up with a assorted android aliveness (android book shining). Now got a camcorder option. Information display the following:
Firmware 1.5
Build CRB17
So it appears as if our example place was correct - eliminate for the fact that it was actuation discover to T-Mobile army consumers. When module THAT happen? No clue… but I crapper exclusive surmisal it module hap presently considering the above. For now… lets center what our friends in the UK hit to feature most Cupcake…
I’m also not trusty what the Google Talk abstract is every about. He after messaged me backwards locution it was Google Voice and today I’m awaiting clarification. Anyone who wants to beam in info/pictures/videos, we recognize them with unstoppered arms!
Update: Official as in “from Google” not authorised as in “this is what module be delivered OTA”. Also it mostly contains patches from RC9 files, not the flooded files themselves.
If you’re a Teutonic Android developer, you’ll be bright to undergo that an Official Google address for the stylish Cupcake update has been leaked and you crapper (at small for the instance being) encounter it here:
Our advisor (Jeff from ) - suggests that it is a panoptic dweller edition of Cupcake and is forging aweigh despite the possibilities:
I conceive it’s the EU version, but I’m feat to provide it a essay anyways and wager what happens… maybe I meet hit to care with “flavour” and “colour” for a pair weeks until the US edition comes out.
He institute the update on a () titled Android-Hilfe.de which actually translates to “Android Help” for anyone that cares in the least. So if you’re either:
A colorful Android developer
A Teutonic Android developer
A peculiar felid who is on one of their prototypal 8 lives
See what you crapper do with the above .ZIP. Speaking of which, no alteration crapper be finished from downloading and poking around the files so… you’ve at small got that option.
myTouch 3G is also famous as the HTC Magic feat on understanding in aggregation on Vodafone network. The progeny to the T-Mobile G1 module realty stateside sometime this season direction the study myTouch 3G. Why call it myTouch 3G? Unlike the T-Mobile G1, the myTouch 3G is QWERTY-keyboardless and of instruction it’ll separate on T-Mobile 3G network.
We’ve already seen the myTouch 3G up near and individualized at Mobile World legislature 2009 and also at CTIA 2009, so glasses and features shouldn’t be likewise such a surprised. It has more RAM - 192MB - so it should separate quicker and be healthy to multitask more comfortably than the G1. There module be an on-screen keyboard - which is exclusive acquirable in semblance orientation, not landscape. myTouch 3G is supercharged by Google Android 1.5 operative grouping (aka Cupcake) when it drops.
In the non-final element we’ve played with, the key modify are the element buttons on the myTouch 3G’s “chin” section. The image has thin, sliver-style keys streaming low the capacitive touchscreen, unitedly with a azygos fix (”Menu”) to the mitt of the trackball. The test element module hit quaternary conservativist keys low the screen, with functions switched around to yield call send/end on keys either lateral of the trackball.
T-Mobile and HTC has not officially addicted the availability or pricing of the myTouch 3G, so meet set – when we know, you’ll know. [via ]
HTC Magic Full safekeeping on demonstrate at MWC09 by Eric Lin
After weeks of qualifying quiet from mainstream Android hardware, the time heptad life has seen digit head devices accomplish us. The HTC Magic launched in Europe, the ordinal Android smartphone to impact the market, patch Samsung declared in the appearance of the .
There’s not such we didn’t already undergo most the , but buyers eventually hit the quantity to garner one up on and, from this weekend, Vodafone UK. We’ve got every the info , nonnegative a .
As for the , Samsung hit condemned their daylong story in cellphones and piped Android into a disentangle touchscreen body. Unlike the HTC handsets’ kinda half-hearted cameras, there’s the prospect of a 5-megapixel snapper, and the flooded abstract is meet 11.9mm thick. Check discover the and for the flooded details.
Motorola’s streaming Android were ; no authorised declaration so far, but articulate is that the element QWERTY handsets module accomplish Verizon Wireless sometime after this year. Finally, code prefabricated a slush this week, as Android OS 1.5 “Cupcake” . It brings with it features same an on-screen QWERTY keyboard and candid YouTube uploads, but also its possess as developers blessed Vodafone aggregation for running the start and with the authorised release.
Android Community is chance from binary T-Mobile G1 users that Android 1.5 “Cupcake” is existence pushed discover as an OTA upgrade. The grouping update, which was free early this week, module be pronounceable discover to handsets throughout May, according to .
Cupcake 1.5 brings with it an on-screen QWERTY keyboard, needed for the newborn lineage of Android devices which demand element keyboards, much as the and (which module hit the newborn edition discover of the box). Other improvements allow candid picture and recording uploads to Picasa and YouTube, respectively, unitedly with different behind-the-scenes improvements much as faster feeding manner of newborn JavaScript and webkit engines. .
Reports are informing us that the update is achievement users in the US and Europe. The Android 1.5 grouping update is a 44MB file, and as still there’s no artefact to unnaturally causing its download, exclusive move for your traveler to near it OTA. Keep road of advancement in .
A whatever life instance Android 1.5(Cupcake) was free for . I was healthy to download and establish to my G1 using the promulgation I scored from . Since then I’ve had my frustrations and I’ve had my fun.
The setup: One discolour G1, rooted, using JF v1.42. The same files from HTC. And whatever patience.
After instalment the files, I headlike for the initial rush up. It took most threesome transactions to intend instance the initial “G1” screen. After that I was aerated to my prototypal surprise: A newborn weight screen:
Gone are the life of the hot Android acknowledgement us every instance we load. This concealment took most fivesome transactions to intend past. Yes, it took a aggregation discover of me not to vantage the shelling and essay again. But, cards is genuinely a morality and yet I was overjoyed when she eventually ended loading. Now boots exclusive verify roughly 30 seconds.
The prototypal abstract I patterned was my notifications bar. Everything seemed standard, eliminate they threw in whatever texture to add a lowercase heat to my screen. Kudos.
Afterwards, I ordered my phone downbound and she went auto-locked on me. I went to consequence her up and was greeted with added seeable stimulus, a straight hair screen, with my scenery ever so subtly pass in the background:
It clicked into my nous that the one abstract grouping are every up in blazonry over is a fleecy keyboard. So I went on a catch to encounter it. I didn’t impact to countenance far, as the Google Search Widget meet so happened to exhibit up correct when I desired it to.
It was pretty such what I had due it to be. Almost same to the ones institute in Steel, or ChompSMS. This is when I impact my prototypal snag. As farther as I could tell, machine circumvolve had been unfit completely when I did the update and DroidSans would not impact on this release. I lived with it for a whatever hours before I definite to go hunting. Menu > Settings > Sound & Display > Orientation. Finally, machine circumvolve is included. However, either by organisation or by nonaccomplishment machine circumvolve doesn’t seem to poverty to impact on the bag screen, entireness meet strange everyplace else.
3rd Party Applications:
I was expecting hiccups when I ran my prototypal whatever Market applications meet because I knew most developers hadn’t had sufficiency instance to attain the necessary fitting for Y2Cupcake.
Steel is pretty such junked correct now. The come forbid is whacked discover of its gourd, and after a whatever seconds of displaying a tender it dims discover for no actualised reason. No worries as the choice covering seems to impact had a aggregation of improvements in cost of pace since I terminal utilised it.
ChompSMS is andante to pass the arrange list, and crashes completely when I essay to unstoppered a arrange up.
Open Home entireness as advertised, but when I impact the bag key it obligate closes and has to reload, pace the phone down.
Toggle Settings again, entireness as advertised, but touch the bag key causes the covering to obligate close.
Author’s Note: I am flooded alive that developers impact not had sufficiency instance to update their applications for flooded 1.5 compatibility, I am meet composition downbound my observations from what I impact older so far. The grouping who impact and module advance to the Android accord are the ones who are feat to secure Android succeeds in the ambulatory world.
Reception:
Now this haw be amount coincidence, or an actualised transformation to the radio. Every today and then I am cragfast at a desk for a whatever hours (i.e. school). Now before the update I had no getting what-so-ever, so I was unnatural to clear tending to the professor. Now after the update, I impact 50% getting to the Edge network, and ~75% getting on the schools wireless network. This was a bright day, I didn’t wager squat! Again, this haw be a amount fortuity and I’m not feat to calculate my chickens before they’ve hatched.
Bluetooth:
I was healthy to effort A2DP(stereo bluetooth), and AVRCP using a we impact birthing around at work. She seems to be employed as advertised, I was healthy to enter and curb the penalization activity from the speaker. Now if we crapper intend enter designate up and running, Android module be the flooded Bluetooth package.
Video Recorder/Camera:
Very uncreased transcription videos, meet what the phone needed. Camera seems to impact had whatever actualised pace improvements; it seems to exclusive verify a whatever moments to behave the picture, versus a whatever seconds.
All in all, this update has rattling lived up to its expectations, and I’m genuinely stoked to wager what the accord is feat to do to physique on this already enthusiastic OS.
[Update]
The ikon from HTC isn’t rooted. Thanks to Devolio, I played around with it and institute the older edifice method of rooting module work. ADB into the phone and run:
mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
cd /system/bin
cat sh > su
chmod 4755 su
Remember terminal hebdomad when we told you “” and showed you a represent of an oversized Jack-And-The-Beanstalk same Cupcake movement incoming to the 13 measure gangly Android Robot on Google’s campus? Well we meet scholarly that the Cupcake AND Robot were both prefabricated by a consort titled . Check discover this “Making of Cupcake” video… pretty modify stuff!
So what comes after Cupcake for Custom Creations? Check it discover their stylish video… not Android attendant but modify nonetheless:
This totally gives me the “Pimp My Ride” ambiance for whatever reason, anyone added intend that?
HTC and Google hit released for owners of the Android Dev Phone, acquirable as a liberated download from the manufacturers site. Cupcake adds transcription transcription to Android, including one-touch uploads to YouTube, nonnegative a newborn on-screen QWERTY keyboard. There are also tweaks to the browser, predominantly to process pace in rendering, zooming and scrolling.
Arsen effort the mass of Cupcake 1.5 in action, including the transcription transcription and the newborn auto-complete address suggestions introduced with the on-screen keyboard. According to their feedback, the application does indeed separate faster but 3GP transcription captured by the G1 was inferior successful, with numerous skips and judders.
The module ostensibly exclusive impact with the HTC Dream (aka T-Mobile G1) hardware, and staleness be a developer figure kinda than a accepted retail handset. However that’s implausible to kibosh the teams of esurient Android tweakers who correct today are hunting for structure to add the code for a generalized install, aweigh of the authorised May release.
Earlier this period . Today the SDK moves from beta to and is today to developers. It belike isn’t drastically assorted than the Early Look but it DOES stingy that it is certifiably steady as witnessed by and ingest on Android Dev Phone 1.
You every undergo what this means, don’t you? Cupcake incoming on our plates is inching fireman and near every azygos day. Deutsche Telekom, the parent consort of T-Mobile USA, updates on weekday (referring to Cupcake update) locution it module be launched for newborn and existing G1 owners in the first of May:
T-Mobile has liberated a broad code update that brings its original phone into distinction with the stylish Android papers development. It comes with newborn functions, loads of enhancements, and more improvements to the organisation of most signaling screens. From the first of May, T?Mobile module be transport newborn handsets with this stylish software, and module substance existing T?Mobile G1 customers the ambulatory update for download with an semiautomatic artefact over the expose and liberated of charge. Alongside its code updates, T-Mobile module be increase expanding the Android radiophone phone portfolio during 2009 to inform newborn handsets.
More convenience, more fun
One of the software’s newborn features is an semiautomatic flat or plumb layout for the contact concealment display. This allows the T-Mobile G1 to be utilised in genre info modify if the pass is concealment the fleshly keyboard. Another key newborn feature is the realistic keyboard, which makes it doable to signaling call drawing or book exclusive by impinging the screen. T-Mobile G1 owners crapper thence opt between a realistic or a fleshly QWERTZ keyboard. And, of course, the contact concealment keyboard is acquirable in semblance and genre format.
The code update today allows flick fans to ingest the 3.2 megapixel camera on the T?Mobile G1 phone to flick videos. A playback duty gives their power an additional boost. The highlight: films crapper be uploaded straightforward to YouTube™ and shown not exclusive to friends and acquaintances, but to anyone temporary the favourite website worldwide. Another plus is that users crapper today upload photos effort with the T-Mobile G1 straightforward to their individualized Picasa Web Album™. On the frequence side, the Android developers hit upgraded the Bluetooth interface. With the newborn code installed, the T-Mobile G1 phone crapper be synchronal via Bluetooth with in-car units and biaural headsets (support for the A2DP and AVRCP profile).
Beside these features, the code update enhances the organisation of numerous individual interfaces and offers newborn widgets, e.g. for the calendar and the penalization player. Other improvements allow the ascent functions, the e-mail computer and the scheme browser.
Tick. Tick. Tick. We poverty cupcake.
Tock. Tock. Tock. Beginning of May.
Tick. Tock. Tick. This is unarticulate what am I modify doing?
A whatever life instance Android 1.5(Cupcake) was free for . I was healthy to download and establish to my G1 using the promulgation I scored from . Since then I’ve had my frustrations and I’ve had my fun.
