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llessur

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I'm curious why Froyo seems to be so popular among Android threads. I understand that we don't have it yet for the Capp.. I almost said the dreaded word. :D I mean Captivate.

Anyone have any experience using Froyo on another phone? What is so great about it?

What's your top five best things about Froyo?
 
Blackforge said:
Performance improvements
Battery improvements
Full Flash support
More fully featured Exchange mail support
Wifi hotspot
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^This! except I highly doubt the Official release will have WiFi hotspot since AT&T is such a generous and giving company *sarcasm off*

Sooo hopefully we'll have some amazing custom roms waiting for us in the near future :D
 
Nah, they'll have a wifi hotspot, heck the iPhone can be tethered. They just require you to be on the 2 Gb data plan...

AT&T is going to love charging $10 per gigabyte for wifi hot spot. lol
 
Blackforge said:
Performance improvements
Battery improvements
Full Flash support
More fully featured Exchange mail support
Wifi hotspot
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This. Don't forget the Captivate has another 256 of memory waiting to be unlocked. ;)

Froyo deserves the attention it gets. Next month couldn't come soon enough.
 
I can't get my company email if my phone doesn'y have the ability to put a pin code on my phone account. WinMo does it, iPhone does it, Blackberry does it.

Android only does it under Froyo.

So, no Captivate for me until 2.2

(But to tell the truth, I'm actually going to wait until WinMo7 hits the street in December. Then I will choose between Captivate, WinMo, and Dell Streak, if it is on Froyo by then.)
 
Thanks for all the replies! It looks like Froyo has some great stuff for us Captivate users. I wonder why 2.1 limits our RAM? You think that is another ATT restriction or is that common? That's gonna be nice to have all 512!
 
It's an Android limitation. As to why, well I don't know specifically why they choose to only support 256mb of RAM up until this point, but given the fact that we're talking about a freaking PHONE here the fact that we have 512mb of ram is pretty amazing to begin with.

Also, if you go into your system info it indicates that we can use 325mb of RAM. I'm not sure if that's incorrect or if Samsung implemented some kind of hack - but it begs the question, why if they did implement some kind of hack why stop there as opposed to writing in access to the full 512mb.

What battery improvements is 2.2 supposed to bring?
 
Froyo hopefully will bring some much needed speed increases. But don't let the hype get out of control. Read up on the HTC Desire and EVO forums where Froyo has been released. There are issues that come with Froyo such as the borking of the aac+ codec (streaming audio from sites such as Pandora is now supposedly unlistenable). Google has acknowledged the issue and hopefully there will be a fix by the time Froyo gets to the Cap. There are other issues (some see worse battery life) and some are even reverting back to 2.1 Eclair.
 
Android_J said:
Froyo hopefully will bring some much needed speed increases. But don't let the hype get out of control. Read up on the HTC Desire and EVO forums where Froyo has been released. There are issues that come with Froyo such as the borking of the aac+ codec (streaming audio from sites such as Pandora is now supposedly unlistenable). Google has acknowledged the issue and hopefully there will be a fix by the time Froyo gets to the Cap. There are other issues (some see worse battery life) and some are even reverting back to 2.1 Eclair.
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I'm surprised Google released the update if they were having seemingly major problems... wow

Hopefully they'll get everything fixed in the next month or so.
 
I'm sure AT&T will allow wifi tethering for the extra 20 dollars a month they charge for usb tethering and if you are on a capped data plan. No worries though, it isn't like it is hard to enable wifi tethering now on your phone and I'm sure that we will be able to get around the $20 a month fee, I mean, if you can do it with ios, I'm certain you can do it with android.
 
Hi, I am very new here and have had my Android Incredible a couple of months. Is Froyo for it and if so what does it do? Thanks.
 
It's most likely because of memory addressing. It's the same reason a 32 bit computer can't see more than 32 bits of RAM (and why a 64 bit computer is the only reason you should use 8GB of RAM). you can only address so much memory. Now, I'm sure Android is a 32-bit operating system but they may be only able to adddress so much memory.
 
EricKit said:
It's most likely because of memory addressing. It's the same reason a 32 bit computer can't see more than 32 bits of RAM (and why a 64 bit computer is the only reason you should use 8GB of RAM). you can only address so much memory. Now, I'm sure Android is a 32-bit operating system but they may be only able to adddress so much memory.
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That's what I was thinking too. I can't imagine 2 years from now when phones are hitting 4 Gigs of RAM and dual core CPUs...

I for one cannot wait to play starcraft, Doom 3, and protein fold all at the same time. :D
 
Soo, Froyo is released when? Im interested to check it out.. Ive decided to just suck it up and keep my captivate and try the android OS for a few years.. I already know what IOS brings , and besides new hardware and a nice screen I know exactly what the Iphone 4 will do .. BUT the new android phones getting released later this year have me interested as well ( front facing cameras, 1080p, 8 mp cam, flash, better screen etc )

also what is teathering, and hotspot?
 
CoMaToast said:
Soo, Froyo is released when? Im interested to check it out.. Ive decided to just suck it up and keep my captivate and try the android OS for a few years.. I already know what IOS brings , and besides new hardware and a nice screen I know exactly what the Iphone 4 will do .. BUT the new android phones getting released later this year have me interested as well ( front facing cameras, 1080p, 8 mp cam, flash, better screen etc )

also what is teathering, and hotspot?
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September sometime.

Tethering and a wireless hotspot are both similar things. A hotspot acts as a wireless router to which you can use multiple things such as a laptop, PSP, etc. Tethering basically just uses your cellphone as a modem. Usually you need to plug it into the computer, but I think android works wirelessly too.
 
kbanes said:
(But to tell the truth, I'm actually going to wait until WinMo7 hits the street in December. Then I will choose between Captivate, WinMo, and Dell Streak, if it is on Froyo by then.)
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I fear that the Streak will be lucky to be on Eclair by that point, let alone Froyo. Dell really dropped the ball with that one. :(
 
Autolysis said:
September sometime.

Tethering and a wireless hotspot are both similar things. A hotspot acts as a wireless router to which you can use multiple things such as a laptop, PSP, etc. Tethering basically just uses your cellphone as a modem. Usually you need to plug it into the computer, but I think android works wirelessly too.
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Thats pretty awesome.. Now I see why people are talking about huge data plans with these now.. I would be bringing my laptop everywhere and using it as a hotspot :)
 
My friends with Droids and Evos have been pretty underwhelmed with Froyo. They've said with all the hyping, they were expecting something really nice... but now they can see why it was an incremental version update.
 
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