‘Cupcake’ update coming for Android…soon

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Word on the street is that is going to release the ‘’ update for the OS soon. Details are a little scarce but James Falconer reports bug fixes along with the virtual keyboard. Andy Salisbury also reports the virtual keyboard as well as camera updates (including video recording) and basic x86 support (not specific). The Android Roadmap for Q1 2009 does mention the virtual keyboard and other input methods as well as a suggestion algorithm.

Other changes from the Roadmap:

  • Save attachments from MMS
  • Music now fades for phone calls
  • Many Browser enhancements
    • Updated WebKit version
    • Copy/paste is enabled
    • Find is enabled
    • Drawing is faster, pages with animations are 5x faster
  • VoiceDialer now supports ‘open app’ command
  • Camera features include the video recorder, video thumbnails, local playback and sharing
  • Download manager is improved with better support for pausing, resuming and connectivity
  • Tactile (Haptic) feedback
  • Hardware accelerated video encoding
  • Speech Recognition API
  • Streaming Audio for apps
  • Bluetooth support for A2DP and AVRCP (YAY!!!)
  • Updated Linux Kernel
  • Longer in call screen timeout
  • Show/Hide dialpad added to in-call menu
  • Many more bug fixes…

As usual this will be an OTA update. Since we’ve seen several since launch I have faith in this one showing up decently. What feature are you looking forward to, Bluetooth Stereo audio, on-screen keyboard or video recording?

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Wednesday, December 31st, 2008 G1 News

10 Comments to ‘Cupcake’ update coming for Android…soon

Johny B Gud
December 31, 2008

OMG OMG OMG YES! All of them I want them all NOW! Video recording? thank you very much. Stereo Bluetooth? Yes I will take some of that, no mo wires fo me

Rolando
January 1, 2009

sounds great.

Zack
January 1, 2009

Sounds fantastic so many I can’t wait but I have 3 questions. Will this be a download from the android market? Will u have to use the on screen keyboard? And will u be able to beam things and accept beams with this update?

Mike Benton
January 1, 2009

The Cupcake update will be Over The Air. Android will automatically download and install the update without you needing to do anything. I haven’t read anything about beaming yet. Hopefully the on screen keyboard will disappear if you use the slide out or disappear with a minimize tap. If not I’m sure there will be an abundance of complaints and the devs will rollout a patch quickly

BwanaTheIguana
January 3, 2009

Dude, that’s a pancake. Nice breakfast package though. A rodent for protein and a pancake for complex carbs!!! If you eat the fur I bet it counts as Fiber!!!

The A2DP is what I want. My workouts haven’t been the same since I dumped my Shadow…

IwantFlash4G1
January 3, 2009

This ota update - Plus Flash to be comming soon. = iphone can kiss our arse’s. wahahaha

The Wrath
January 3, 2009

Great, now all we need is Flash ability and a means to save and run aps from the SD card then we can have our cupcake and eat it too.

Zippie
January 5, 2009

I’m surprised they haven’t found a fix for the inability to save apps to the sd card that’s probably this phones biggest shortcoming IMO.

DanielM
January 6, 2009

If you search the android market for “apkinstaller” it lets you install .apk apps to the phone from the sd card

Sin
January 12, 2009

“If you search the android market for “apkinstaller” it lets you install .apk apps to the phone from the sd card”

FROM the SD card… We want to save and store the apps TO the SD card so I don’t have to delete apps to install new ones and constantly pick and choose which I have available to me at a time.

Other than that I can not wait for this update. Soft keyboard, bug fixes, video recording, saving MMS media (why wasn’t this a default… really), Stereo BT… can’t wait!

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