Guest kosmiq Posted October 28, 2009 Report Posted October 28, 2009 (edited) Swedish android site swedroid.se published a little snippet from a members communication with HTC about 1.6 for HERO. [indent]Dear HTC customer, The Hero will not be receiving the Android 1.6 upgrade, it will however get the 2.0 one. Do note however that we do not have a confirmed release date for this upgrade, all I can recommend at the moment is that you keep yourself updated by visiting our website regularly as the latest information will be available to view from there. Best regards, HTC customer support team HTC Corp. Global Service Division [/indent] If we get 2.0 not to far from now I really won't miss 1.6 either really. Kernel sources + 2.0 in a not so distant future is acceptable if 1.6 is not released. Thoughts? :D Edited October 28, 2009 by kosmiq
Guest Axellink1 Posted October 28, 2009 Report Posted October 28, 2009 Sweet Jesus this is awesome news. It actually makes sense since 1.6 really isn't that much of a difference to the Modaco rom we have now. I'll be content knowing that all the fancy new features will be arriving on this phone soon!
Guest masterpfa Posted October 28, 2009 Report Posted October 28, 2009 2.0?? when! The talk is of 2.0 being released in November New phones being released with 2.0 installed are The Motorola Droid and HTC Droid with release dates rumoured to be 6th November That surely can only mean weeks later 2.0 being released for the rest of us. (Hopefully) Early Christmas present????? :D
Guest masterpfa Posted October 28, 2009 Report Posted October 28, 2009 The talk is of 2.0 being released in November New phones being released with 2.0 installed are The Motorola Droid and HTC Droid with release dates rumoured to be 6th November That surely can only mean weeks later 2.0 being released for the rest of us. (Hopefully) Early Christmas present????? :D P.P.S Have a look at this.. http://www.androidguys.com/2009/10/28/euro...ing-1-6-update/
Guest blackhorse Posted October 28, 2009 Report Posted October 28, 2009 (edited) Looks decent, reading this article http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/10/19/moto_droid/ Edited October 28, 2009 by blackhorse
Guest Streetdaddy Posted October 29, 2009 Report Posted October 29, 2009 Will the 2.0 update come out in the Modaco custom rom before the official update? No way I'm going back to stock roms!
Guest jonathanmusto Posted October 29, 2009 Report Posted October 29, 2009 Nice, but what will this give us that we don't already have? Not much looking at the features: • Microsoft Exchange support - Already in Rosie. • An inbox allowing multiple email accounts - Already in Rosie • HTML5 support - ?? • Double-tap zooming in the browser - Already in Rosie • Digital zoom for the camera - Already in Rosie • Improved dictionary for your keyboard (it learns words you frequently use and suggests contact names) - ?? • Improved graphics architecture for better hardware acceleration - ?? This could be interesting • Multitouch - Already in Rosie Anyways, that sad, I hope Paul get a 'leaked' version nice and early from HTC!
Guest Rubber Ducky Posted October 29, 2009 Report Posted October 29, 2009 Multitouch??? Where? I know the phone is capable of multitouch but I thought it wasn't implemented yet.
Guest quartershade Posted October 29, 2009 Report Posted October 29, 2009 Please HTC, include Google Maps Navigation!!
Guest jonathanmusto Posted October 29, 2009 Report Posted October 29, 2009 Multitouch??? Where? I know the phone is capable of multitouch but I thought it wasn't implemented yet. In the browser... Yeah, Google navigation looks good, i wonder if it works offline though, since data signals can be sparadic at best on long journeys!
Guest branwen Posted October 29, 2009 Report Posted October 29, 2009 I was just thinking, if the HTC Eris on Verizon is basically a Hero, and apparently its shipping with the latest version, might this indicate that HTC have ported Sense to 2.0, and were waiting on this release, before giving it to the Hero? Would explain why the CBA working on 1.6 if they already had 2.0 ready to go
Guest fabsn Posted October 29, 2009 Report Posted October 29, 2009 Nice, but what will this give us that we don't already have? Not much looking at the features: • Microsoft Exchange support - Already in Rosie. • An inbox allowing multiple email accounts - Already in Rosie • HTML5 support - ?? • Double-tap zooming in the browser - Already in Rosie • Digital zoom for the camera - Already in Rosie • Improved dictionary for your keyboard (it learns words you frequently use and suggests contact names) - ?? • Improved graphics architecture for better hardware acceleration - ?? This could be interesting • Multitouch - Already in Rosie Anyways, that sad, I hope Paul get a 'leaked' version nice and early from HTC!Bluetooth API, Phone-Wide Search as in 1.6, Account Management, new Contact API. Those are just four reasons for 2.0. Can't wait.
Guest kendon Posted October 29, 2009 Report Posted October 29, 2009 Nice, but what will this give us that we don't already have? Not much looking at the features: • Microsoft Exchange support - Already in Rosie. • An inbox allowing multiple email accounts - Already in Rosie • HTML5 support - ?? • Double-tap zooming in the browser - Already in Rosie • Digital zoom for the camera - Already in Rosie • Improved dictionary for your keyboard (it learns words you frequently use and suggests contact names) - ?? • Improved graphics architecture for better hardware acceleration - ?? This could be interesting • Multitouch - Already in Rosie Anyways, that sad, I hope Paul get a 'leaked' version nice and early from HTC! does it have exchange support? we're not talking about htc sync being able to sync with outlook! html5 support is awesome - i think, but it is a point. i am pretty sure the improved dictionary does its job better, but i don't use any of that stuff anyway. the multitouch feature is a pretty crippled one IMHO, as it is not able to report two touching points. it reports the first point of contact, and if you touch it at a second place it reports the distance to first touch as a bigger circle for the first touch. i hope this will be improved, if possible at all (might be limited by hardware).
Guest Chris Jenx Posted October 31, 2009 Report Posted October 31, 2009 Seen as 2.0 will have the integrated social networking and not just part of sense UI, what do you think HTC will do? Same for exchange support, (HTC's doesn't really work). I would expect that they would drop there add-ons and just reimplement the 2.0 through there own interface. Any thoughts? Remember there is allot of bug fixes on top of features which people neglect to mention. Can't Wait!
Guest Chris Jenx Posted October 31, 2009 Report Posted October 31, 2009 In the browser... Yeah, Google navigation looks good, i wonder if it works offline though, since data signals can be sparadic at best on long journeys! I would assume so, but remember it will send data where ever possible, don't forget about Google crowd sourcing. (More the merrier)
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