First pictures of Android 2.1 on the Samsung Moment

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Link to page First pictures of Android 2.1 on the Samsung Moment | Android Central

 

[pastafarian]

Getting closer? Instead of June 30th, maybe June 29th!

 

[Thefoodman52]

I do hope that this fixes at least half of the issues present with this phone, or I'm just dropping it like it's some demonic afterbirth spawn of satan.

 

[cbrooks105]

Ha! Searching for GPS!

 

[heathershipp]

Looks like the satellite isn't even on that's why it's searching lol..... When should we expect this to hit our phones? Ohh and I wonder how the battery life is? If it has improved or not with 2.1?

 

[neutron]

Any chance they added screenshots inside the market when looking for apps?

 

[JPD]

It gives me hope that one day my moment will work as it was advertised to work...

 

[pdx77]

Any chance they added screenshots inside the market when looking for apps?

Yes, this was one of the features that was introduced with Android 1.6

 

[CriticalCritic]

Still has pretty much the same lock screen too
LockScreen on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

 

[dwolf312]

Multitouch does not appear to be enabled in this build. Screen lock looks about the same. The one thing I did notice was the digital clock on the screen. There's slide-to-answer and slide-to-ignore on the phone screen. They made some interesting changes to keep you from face dialing and face hanging-up.

There should be some interesting things discussed in a meeting later this week. I will keep everyone posted. Release date is close. Very close.

Somebody posted something in another thread that 2.1 for the Moment and the Hero were going to be released at the same time. If this happens, then it will be a coincidence. That's not how the releases are planned. They are two separate products. The Hero's 2.1 strikes me as being a little behind the Moment's. I'll ask a buddy who has 2.1 on a Hero and see what he's heard.

So maybe soon hopefully and from looks of it what he saying is he thinks this isn't the final build, t least that's how I take it, so can't wait to hear more.

 

[Felecity]

This may seem like a silly question, but isn't 2.1 "suppose" to be Flan?

Maybe that got debunked at some point that I just missed out on, but I am confused.. lol The sequence that I was aware of was 1.5 Cupcake, 1.6 Donut, 2.0 Eclair, 2.1 Flan..... ??

 

[Fonseca]

I think 2.1 is considered to be Eclair as well.

 

[numus]

I think 2.1 is considered to be Eclair as well.

Ya it is... 2.0 and 2.0.1 had some inherent flaws and weren't considered 100% implementations, 2.1 was a minor implementation to fix some of these problems..
If you go to the sdk site
Android SDK | Android Developers
you will see 1.5, 1.6 and 2.1 are active platforms.. while 2.0 and 2.0.1 are considered older...

 

[Zumaki]

Apple's still causing too much trouble for multi-touch to be enabled. I wish a judge would hurry up and squash their argument that moving my fingers on a screen is a patented process...

 

[kencrudup]

Let's just hope they've fixed the CDMA radio!

 

[JPD]

yes - fix the radio issue... I'm getting a new Moment today because that was Sprint's answer to the radio problem... I wasn't going to turn down a new device... 2.1 can not come out soon enough...

 

[sdho]

hopefully, SDX will have a rooted kernel soon after

 

[Eazail70x7]

Apple's still causing too much trouble for multi-touch to be enabled. I wish a judge would hurry up and squash their argument that moving my fingers on a screen is a patented process...

Why should this hinder the moment in getting multitouch? Didn't the Droid and Nexus 1 just recently have theirs enabled?

 

[duratime]

Why should this hinder the moment in getting multitouch? Didn't the Droid and Nexus 1 just recently have theirs enabled?

Pre has multi touch too.

 

[dkjones96]

Pre has multi touch too.

Yeah but Palm is riding Apple at every turn. Just look at how much commotion they've caused with the whole iTunes thing.

 

[WisdomWolf]

This may seem like a silly question, but isn't 2.1 "suppose" to be Flan?

Maybe that got debunked at some point that I just missed out on, but I am confused.. lol The sequence that I was aware of was 1.5 Cupcake, 1.6 Donut, 2.0 Eclair, 2.1 Flan..... ??

As others have stated 2.0 and 2.1 were both considered Eclair. There is no such thing as Flan. The next revision is Froyo, but we don't know specifically would the version is (2.2? 2.5? 3.0?). The Evo 4G is supposedly going to be the first device to run Froyo unless the N1 or something else gets updated before the Evo release.

 

[decalex]

2.6.32 is going to be Froyo
and then
2.6.33 or 34 is going to be Gingerbread, according to an Android Kernel dude.

both of which I already have.
/nat

 

[pizzachef]

Uhhh....I think you're talking about the kernal version numbers...somewhat separate from the Android version number.

 

[Zumaki]

Why should this hinder the moment in getting multitouch? Didn't the Droid and Nexus 1 just recently have theirs enabled?

Each company that enables multi-touch officially is making a challenge that Apple can use to file lawsuits over. Google (I think?) has been in a suit with them for a while over multitouch in general (maybe its palm actually) and those who have adopted multitouch in the meantime are gambling on whether or not Apple will lose and multitouch will be made free use.

Google owns N1, Motorola owns Droid.

Palm's on the verge of going out of business so they probably feel they have nothing to lose.

This is all mostly wild speculation... I'm sure someone can/will come in and correct me where I'm wrong.

 

[madmax3]

You know what even more fun than 2.1 on the Moment 2.1 on a Touch Pro sence January 2. I dont know what all the fuss is about Im happy with my Moment and my Touch Pro.

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