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DailyTech Poll Discussion What Feature Are You Most Looking Forward To in Android 2.2
Brandon Hill (Blog) - May 20, 2010 7:27 PM
Print 11 comment(s) - last by atlmann10.. on May 26 at 5:14 PM
Android 2.2 brings a lot to the table; what's your favorite new feature

What Feature Are You Most Looking Forward To in Android 2.2
  • Davlik Just-In-Time compiler for faster application performance (951 votes)
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    33%
  • Support for Adobe Flash 10.1 (866 votes)
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    30%
  • Native internet tethering and Wi-Fi hotspot capabilities (619 votes)
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    22%
  • Over-the-air syncing of apps and music (172 votes)
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    6%
  • V8 JavaScript Engine for faster Chrome internet browsing (233 votes)
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    8%

  • 2,841 total votes

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Hulu
By MozeeToby on 5/21/2010 10:08:39 AM , Rating: 3
Depends if Hulu blocks Android phones. If I can watch Hulu anywhere I go, Flash support is going to be huge. Unfortunately, given that they've already locked out Skyfire (free browser which detects and plays flash videos on Android phones) I don't think that's very likely.

Otherwise I'll take a performance and battery boost running apps through the JIT compiler. My SNES and Gameboy Advanced emulators currently eat my battery like it's nothing, keep the performance the same and reduce the battery drain by half and I'd be very happy.




RE: Hulu
By nafhan on 5/21/2010 11:56:33 AM , Rating: 2
I think it's already been noted that Hulu's blocked. You can pretty much expect Hulu to block anything that's not a PC at this point. I'm guessing mobile apps will be part of the upcoming Hulu subscription model.
In the meantime, can the user agent be spoofed in Android so Hulu can be used?


RE: Hulu
By muhahaaha on 5/21/2010 12:52:23 PM , Rating: 2
Yes, the browser tells the website what platform/version/codebase/resolution/etc it is, so it can easily be spoofed.

My only concern is that you would have to report a PC graphic resolution (say 800x600), and this might cause playback issues on smaller screens. The browser could handle this if properly coded though, and do the conversion to fit your mobile device's screen


RE: Hulu
By T2k on 5/24/2010 5:51:37 PM , Rating: 2
Well, most of the new Android devices DO have 8xx by 4xx resolution screens so it won't be such a big problems especially if Flash "fullscreen" will be implemented properly (scaling to native rez while keeping original AR.)

OTOH I don't see Hulu as being such a big thing: aside it's US-only who wants to watch things on a mincy 4" screen more often than occasionally (like stuck on the train etc)?


compiler
By Mojo the Monkey on 5/21/2010 6:50:24 PM , Rating: 2
Does the new compiler supposedly speed up OS operation? For example, would it make a slightly older processor run like a snapdragon? better resource handling?




RE: compiler
By MeesterNid on 5/22/2010 1:13:24 AM , Rating: 2
They are talking about the VM byte code compiler which runs on top of the operating system I'm guessing (since I don't know the entire Android architecture stack) and would most likely only affect user-space application performance. It would do nothing for resource handling either.

Dalvik is basically the same thing as the Sun/Oracle JVM except that it's register-based I believe, but in essence if you update your Java VM in Windows it doesn't make your OS run faster :) so neither will this for Android.


RE: compiler
By Mojo the Monkey on 5/25/2010 2:38:56 PM , Rating: 2
Thank you for bringing my expectations for this update back into the realm of reality.


Glad to see the progress
By HotFoot on 5/21/2010 11:15:44 PM , Rating: 2
I don't have an Android myself, but a friend of mine is looking at getting one. He wants a lot of the features that the n900 has, but something slimmer and that will seamlessly integrate with Google docs.

With this update, most of the features that the Android platform was missing (from my usage point of view) will be available.




EXCHANGE POLICY SUPPORT
By tspinning on 5/25/2010 8:15:58 AM , Rating: 2
For the love of corporate IT and enterprise policy compliance give me full exchange support!




Bluetooth voice dialing.
By adiposity on 5/26/2010 12:29:21 PM , Rating: 2
Bluetooth voice dialing.




Android 2.2
By atlmann10 on 5/26/2010 5:14:56 PM , Rating: 2
This Poll is actually irrelevant in that I am actually really looking forward to everything in Froyo period. They have done a lot with this update across the board. There are great features even beyond what is included in the poll as well. I am really interested though in what the providers are going to allow. I am also interested in how fast items or features not allowed such as tethering and hotspot will be cracked by someone annd made available against there will. That will actually be funny!




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