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The promise land cometh

As an Android noob I've asked before and I'll ask again - what does Gingerbread do for me?

TIA
DLM
 
It a better running OS that showed promise of better battery life than froyo. I know my droid I flashed a GB rom and the phone was fast and the battery lasted longer than it did with froyo. It more stable.

I am sure others will chime in on this better than I could.
 
tuanster1119 said:
Android 2.3 Platform Highlights | Android Developers

Also, google is your friend.
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Yes, I get the Google thing, but what that page doesn't tell me is why is that stuff a big deal on the Thunderbolt. For example, just how much difference will the download manager make? Or will the new keyboard be better than some of the apps out there?

I guess a better question is will the updates to the OS and power management really make a difference on the Thunderbolt? And does the cosmetic stuff really matter?

TIA
DLM
 
Gingerbread is more of a "behind the scenes update", meaning you won't notice many cosmetic updates. It does come with sense 2.1, which features the tabbed app drawer (all, downloaded, most used, verizon apps) and the HTC sense clock now has an option to display your social media updates rather than the weather. Also, not an improvement as far as I'm concerned, but when scrolling in the app drawer, you can no longer "flick" down and watch it continuously scroll until it reaches the bottom. It now goes "page by page", showing about 25-30 apps per "page" so you have to keep scrolling to get to the bottom. Huge fail, IMO, especially for people with hundreds of apps like myself
 
Well HTC did say it would come by the end of Q2 so now its up to verizon to work out the bugs and get it out in time. Knowing verizon they will dick around and wait like they always do. I wish they would just give this to the dev's and let them work out all the kinks and then allow it to be sent out ota rather than verizon testing it which we know only leads to more issues usually lol.
 
dmunz said:
Yes, I get the Google thing, but what that page doesn't tell me is why is that stuff a big deal on the Thunderbolt. For example, just how much difference will the download manager make? Or will the new keyboard be better than some of the apps out there?

I guess a better question is will the updates to the OS and power management really make a difference on the Thunderbolt? And does the cosmetic stuff really matter?

TIA
DLM
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The keyboard is so much better. If you want to try it out go on the market and look for gingerbread keyboard and download the free version. I use that keyboard because to me it is much nicer and easier to type on compared to the stock keyboard.
 
redraider1 said:
The keyboard is so much better. If you want to try it out go on the market and look for gingerbread keyboard and download the free version. I use that keyboard because to me it is much nicer and easier to type on compared to the stock keyboard.
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But the Thunderbolt comes with the Sense UI keyboard.

Or people could just spend a few bucks and buy a different keyboard app.
 
jcnyc said:
Better keyboard 8 with keyboard height adjusted lower FTW
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How is the word prediction though? SwiftKey has the best word prediction that I've ever found. I can't tell you how often it suggest exactly what I want to say to make things super quick.
 
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