Word on the street is that Google is going to release the ‘Cupcake’ update for the Android 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 G1 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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