HTTP:: Android 1 6 Might Come to G1 Too
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Owners of a T-Mobile G1 Android handset might soon enjoy the latest flavor of Google's operating system too, although initially the Android Developers said that the new firmware wouldn't be available for the first Android-based mobile phone. Android 1.6, also known as Donut, is set to be released into the wild as soon as October, while the Android 1.6 SDK has already been published on the Android Developers website. It was only last month that users of a T-Mobile G1 / HTC Dream received the terrible news. Their handsets won't enjoy any future flavors of the Android platform, Cupcake being the latest iteration that was released with support for their devices too. The main reason for this was said to be the fact that G1 came to the market with a small amount of flash memory, and that the future Android versions wouldn't fit into such a small storage space. However, recent news reports suggest that G1 owners might have some hope too. It seems that the Android 1.6 firmware p!
age describes the new text-to-speech feature that will come with Donut, and makes a specific reference to the G1 devices, which shows that owners of these handsets will also have the opportunity to taste Android 1.6 when it lands. “Android 1.6 features a multi-lingual speech synthesis engine called Pico. It allows any Android appl...
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