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what's up everyone John rende Jeff and TechnoBuffalo here and I want to show you some of the new features found in Android 2.2 you may also hear it called Froyo it follows Google's sort of dessert themed updates the first one we saw was cupcake for a C then we saw donut Eclair Froyo with an F so sort of de a quill CG and all the rest of the desserts as Google starts kicking out more updates so let's jump in to a feature that I think was really really needed we've now have new shortcut widgets on the home screen so you can jump right to the dialer go back to your applications or go right to the web really nice happy to have them there you also have a new tips widget which you can delete very easily that sort of shows up when you first flash the device when you want to delete something those down below go away and the trashcan shows up so the next thing that we have is now flash 10.1 and actually doesn't come on the ROM when your phone gets the actually have to download the beta from the Android Market let me show you how flash works here on Android 2.1 this actually works pretty well so i've got now some flash games to tap PL just pick one you can see some Flash content playing right there go ahead just pick a random game we'll see how things look like just like all flash you still get popups which can certainly be a bit on the annoying side so we'll go ahead and X out of that and start the game if so you can get as sort of a feel of how Flash content works on here video actually is much smoother than we saw on say the HTC Incredible or other flash naval devices this isn't flash lights this is flash 10.1 you can see things here double tap if you rotate it oftentimes it'll rotate with you and sometimes they'll even go fullscreen depending on whether or not it's been formatted for mobile you think things are actually going very smooth and surprisingly playable you can actually use flash now on a mobile device something that's really really nice so you can see things are just sort of playing like normal so go ahead and jump out of this go ahead and quit that so you have a cool couple other sort of neat features here found in 2.1 the first and probably one of the most pronounced is browser speed a browser speed is definitely improved there's some new rendering engines that are being done I'll give you a demonstration from those sort of heart to appreciate the speed increase if you haven't seen the speed increase on the other devices so go ahead and load up we'll pick TechnoBuffalo go back to the web and i'll show you how this works this is a pretty fast Wi-Fi let's sort of get not really sure to compare that something else but just so you can see it there's TechnoBuffalo pops up we'll go ahead and let it load and things do load very quickly so we'll go ahead and launch the site I'm not saying on average about a second to a second and a half faster than I would see on the Nexus One with Android 2.1 the previous build so content loads very fast and you sort of get your same multi-touch that you had before but things work and things work very well one of the other really handy features and things I think your people are really gonna like is inset it let me show you what we got here jump on it the settings go to wireless networks you now have tethering and portable hotspot suppose you don't know tethering is essentially using your phone's internet connection and sharing with your computer so if you're out on the road and you have your laptop with me you don't have internet you can plug your phone in and use it for your internet connection it also something else cool called portable Wi-Fi hotspot' now not all phones are gonna get this purple Wi-Fi hotspot but it does sprays no explanatory turns your phone into a Wi-Fi access point so actually turns your cellular data kicks it out as Wi-Fi actually up to eight people can connect to it at once certainly the more people that connect the less faster speeds gonna be but it does work and it worked really well so you've got some decent amount of settings here go ahead and turn this on you can see what it looks like takes a little bit of time you can see it says turning on sort of grayed out down below and about 10 or 15 seconds you are now kicking out Wi-Fi see the little icon in the upper left hand corner letting you know that it's working you can check out what some of the settings are pretty self-explanatory and configure you can set a password if you'd like or not so the password is leave it open really is very handy so let me go ahead and turn that off and let's continue the tour the camera features something else has been updated here with Android 2.1 I'll show you what that looks like go ahead and launch the application and jump on into camera navigating the camera I thought was a bit clumsy on Android 2.1 how to use two hands here on 2.2 that actually optimized it for one-handed use to actually take your finger you roll over you get all these options down you can do it right you're taking your picture you can see that you've got white balance you got your zoom right there flash where you want to store it to and some focus emotes you've got a really decent amount of other things that you can do here and speaking of cameras something else has been enabled the Nexus One these particularly has an LED flash that LED flash will now work when you are in video capture mode so if you're in low-light situations and even more light this is going to work perfectly for you go ahead and jump back to the home screen and let's keep going on so you now also have some new search functionality so you've got a new Google logo there if you click it you can have search Google when you start really searches everything on your phone the web apps or contacts now I server get a universal search if you just want to do a Google search on the web you go ahead to web you want to search the applications you don't have to jump now into Android Marketplace or if you want to search your contacts and speaking of Android Marketplace you can now update your applications all at once didn't ever do them all individually which is quite nice there's also some new features for those of using exchange service calendar sync and things like that now work just better and soon there will be a new online marketplace where you can go ahead and manage all of your Android applications and actually send them right to the device from there but that has not been launched yet so I just hope you enjoyed this sort of quick overview of Android 2.2 called Froyo look for it on your Android device coming soon you've seen them it's gonna be coming to obviously the Nexus One here droid and look for devices like the Droid Incredible to get it soon as well and you guys hope you enjoy - John retinue TechnoBuffalo see in the next video bye-bye