Google recently launched the latest version 2.3 of Android which is also known as Gingerbread. The Android 2.3 platform introduces many new and exciting features for users and developers.
Here are some of the new features in Android 2.3:
New User Features
- UI refinements for simplicity and speed
- Faster, more intuitive text input
- One-touch word selection and copy/paste
- Improved power management
- Control over applications
- New ways of communicating, organizing
- Internet calling
- Near-field communications
- Downloads management
- Camera
New Developer Features
- Enhancements for gaming
- Performance
- Native input and sensor events
- Gyroscope and other new sensors, for improved 3D motion processing
- Open API for native audio
- Native graphics management
- Native access to Activity lifecycle, window management
- Native access to assets, storage
- Robust native development environment
- New forms of communication
- Internet telephony
- Near Field Communication (NFC)
- Rich Multimedia
- Mixable audio effects
- Support for new media formats
- Access to multiple cameras
New Platform Technologies
You can read about these features in detail at the Android Developers website.
Here is an official Android Gingerbread 2.3 video:
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Google Android 2.3 is nice Update for User’s of Android Powered Devices and Gadgets
It is good to see an Update in Google Android O.S. Google Android is getting Popular with the passage of time