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[Official] What Changes Have You Noticed After Updating to 2.2 (Froyo)?

Biggest improvement for me by far is the stock keyboard. Coming from an iphone I had some trouble adjusting to the X keyboard because of the size of the spacebar. I noticed that I was constantly hitting the universal ".," button. Seems that they axed the universal button for simply the "." As well as making the spacebar a little larger while making the two buttons to the left and right of it a little smaller.

This was a much welcomed improvement!
 
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No more castle crunch!? Can't even find it on market. That was the second thing I noticed.

I benchmarked 100 over the last 2.1 post wipe test. Probably means this isn't a complete build (no JIT?):eek:

I am already sending phone back for replacement for another reason (3G disappears occasionally) so thought the leak might fix the current issue. I have until tuesday+ 10 days before I need send it in.

Good camera improvements, and I really think I am liking the bigger callouts on the key presses, and I am excited about the quick access !?,@ _ characters.

Where oh where did my beloved "character zoom while positioning the cursor" go to? That was brilliant if not fallable.

I really wish the landscape keyboard was a bit less intrusive over the web form.

Update: Google Chrome to Phone Extension by chrometophone now usable!
 
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Google Maps loads even faster now...lol Location, GPS lock seems faster. Using the GPS or wireless networks the location lock is faster. Of course the GPS is more accurate tho.

I just noticed the Location thing in the browser wasnt working in 2.1. It does now.

Froyo....if folks dont have bad installs.....is an amazing thing. I hope each OS version just gets better n better.

And I definitely love this: if u misspell a word when searching the Market...u get suggested words. And u get the closest matches.

Very nice.

Before Froyo, if u misspelled a word, u would just get a no match. LOVE the Market on 2.2
 
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Biggest improvement for me by far is the stock keyboard. Coming from an iphone I had some trouble adjusting to the X keyboard because of the size of the spacebar. I noticed that I was constantly hitting the universal ".," button. Seems that they axed the universal button for simply the "." As well as making the spacebar a little larger while making the two buttons to the left and right of it a little smaller.

This was a much welcomed improvement!

Also, long pressing the full stop (period) gives you a pop out with other commonly used punctuations.
 
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Maps still won't work!!!!!!
Help.


Maps work, what is it NOT doing? I'm affraid, (and glad) they might have updated the app, it used to be on my home page, after the update its gone. I found it resting in the app tray. Its on the market correct? unless it was packed into the zip you can try to update/uninstall/reinstall the app - mine works fine, but I couldn't tell you the previous ver #.
 
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