The Nexus S might bea swell piece of ironware , but what we ’re really live and bothered for is Android 2.3 Gingerbread .
https://gizmodo.com/samsung-nexus-s-the-new-official-google-phone-5707215
Google has anin - depth overviewfor developer , but here ’s the highlights of what we ’re fag in Android 2.3 .
A refreshed UI
The Android UI in Gingerbread is n’t vastly overhauled , but aesthetically , it ’s being push in a quirkier , nerdier pseudo-80s steering : destiny more “ Android green ” and orange on shameful , with a flatter , two dimensional flavour to organization nontextual matter . Fun ! How ’s it better for users ? Well , the notifications bar is revamp , there ’s faster crosscut to the undertaking handler , choice and a newfangled organisation - wide downloads manager .
it easier for the substance abuser to voyage and control the features of the scheme and machine . ”
A better keyboard and copy & paste
Yes , this deserves to be called out separately from the rest of the UI , since a huge weakpoint for Android ’s been the mediocre stock keyboard . The young keyboard not only await better , it ’s functionally improved in several way . The new layout is more spaced out with redesigned , light - to - hit cardinal targets , and it apply multitouch key - chord ( finally ! ) , so typewriting is legitimately faster . re-create and spread is less finicky , too , so you do n’t need a trackball to make it useable — it ’s well-to-do to select what you want to copy with a more iPhone - like organization of cursor selection .
Internet calling natively
I ’d bet dollar to donuts that carriers are fit to strip this out once they get their hand on Android 2.3 , but natively and scheme - wide ( in the dialer and liaison ) , Gingerbread supports VoIP call to SIP addresses . One small gradation for pure data point , stomped to death by carriers .
It’s faster
It ’s gon na be even faster than 2.2 , whichoffered a huge performance boost on its ownthanks to a just - in - time compiler for Dalvik , the practical motorcar layer Android executes apps in . Android 2.3 contribute a cooccurring garbage gatherer the Dalvik VM , which Google says “ minimizes diligence hesitate , helping to ensure still invigoration and increase reactivity in games and similar practical software . ”
https://gizmodo.com/android-2-2-is-2x-to-5x-faster-for-apps-plus-so-many-m-5543659
It also is just obviously quicker at responding :
The plaform nowhandles touch and keyboard event faster and more expeditiously , minimizing CPU utilization during event distribution . The changes amend responsiveness for all applications , but especially benefit games that use ghost events in compounding with 3D nontextual matter or other mainframe - intensive operations .
Brad Fitz explain inmore nerdy item here . Oh , and it ’s got new TV drivers for effective look game .
Better battery life
Despite being quicker and pretty , battery sprightliness is going to be better too . ( As TechCrunch notes . ) Why ? Android is going to be more aggressive about managing apps running in the desktop , minimizing powerfulness draw ( and boost speed at the same clock time ) .
It ’s funny , a circle of the new material in Gingerbread — like the raw UI and VOIP — won’t make it tomost of the Android phonesoffered by carriers , even after the inexorably long wait people will have to sit through for 2.3 . How long ? Officially , Google will be open - source Gingerbread “ in the coming week , at which point OEM’s / manufacturers can take the beginning computer code ” and start doing poppycock with it .
https://gizmodo.com/androids-acne-problem-or-why-you-should-stick-to-the-g-5558101
So , sit pixilated . But that does n’t mean we ca n’t be worked up about it in the lag .
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