• Google's Android 2.2 Froyo beats Apple iPhone

    Google's Android 2.2 Froyo beats Apple iPhone

    Techtree News Staff, May 21, 2010 1104 hrs IST

    New Android Update bags brownie points for a bundle of new features and Flash support

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Google has announced Android 2.2 update codenamed Froyo on the second day of Google I/O Conference at the Moscone West, San Francisco. With this update, Google has smartly put Apple in a soup. Android Froyo will run Flash and HTML5 platforms for both - native and web applications. That is a direct hit on the Apple-Adobe squabble that sparked over Adobe Flash platform for iPhone.

Apple iPhone would be leaping directly to HTML5 for web apps. We don't know much about their future plans to make that platform available for native apps too. Android 2.2 Froyo runs Flash Player 10.1 smoothly and the overall system performance has been boosted up to 5 times compared to the previous update. While Apple simply mentions that its upcoming iPhone 4.0 update will bring an improved performance and faster interface.

Moving ahead, Android 2.2 Froyo loaded device is capable of wirelessly streaming non-DRM music from iTunes or any other music library. Apart from that, apps from desktop too can be transferred to mobile wirelessly.

The real kicker is Android's harmony with Flash and HTML5 in both native and web apps sense as that puts Apple's iPhone platform on the backseat. Developers would get an option to choose between Flash and HTML5 while Apple iPhone developers have to go ahead with HTML5 only.  On should not forget that Apple has its own reasons for choosing HTML5 only.

Apple has kept the iPhone community buzzed with new multi-tasking features. Let us remind you that is device dependent and will work on most recent iPhone OS based models.

We already heard the buzz that the Android 3.0 'Gingerbread' update is on the anvil. Talks are that will support WebM, new open media file format. Now, there is an option for the users and developers to either join the Apple camp or the Google Camp.

Check out Google's official Android 2.2 Froyo video below:

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(9) Comments
Greg
,San Francsisco, CA, on May 21, 2010 12:02 PM
Massive points for Android. Flash and HTML5 support.. how about that! Apple should be ashamed of their closed policies- I'll bet they are wishing they made some better choices right about now. What's next? I guess Apple can lecture the world some more about open devices not being 'safe'... totally porn-ridden... oh those evil, evil Google devices. Yeah, whatever.
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JasMe
,Ludhiana, on May 21, 2010 03:36 PM
LOL!
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Face
,Phila., on May 21, 2010 03:23 PM
Boy talk about Fan boys .They actually say "Just because someone has a choice to use Flash and iPhone doesn't? Apple put Adobe on the back burner because they didn't need them nor did they want them anywhere near there operating system. "I don't know about you but I hate when I go to watch a video and I cant or something is hidden from me.Android has grow in leaps and bounds in a shot period and seems more like a true desktop experience with nothing hidden unless I want it to be.Give me choice any day of the week.
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Pravin
,Noida, on May 21, 2010 02:36 PM
Is there a free grammar-check tool? The author can not afford MS Office.
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Karthik
,Santa Monica, on May 21, 2010 01:38 PM
Another Google fan boy writing an immature piece of tech article! I was at GIO and quite frankly, as someone who has been in the mobile OS game and the app game for a while, there is a lot of slip between the cup and the lip. Google has in the past promised much and delivered duds (Android 1, and to a large extent 2, Nexus One) in the mobile game. In any case, Android is a better platform, but you mentioning device dependency makes me wonder about your ability to review! It is called Hardware Software Co-Design and Apple is a past master. One wonders if M$ had adopted a similar strategy, would we have better Windows machines?
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Kyle Jackson
,indianapolis, on May 21, 2010 12:55 PM
Who cares who beats who anymore? Apple has run the table year after year and they finally get some competition. Now when they compare the iPhone with the competitor, the features are minimal. All the major features on smart phones today were brought to you buy the iPhone. So who really cares who is beating who. Just because someone has a choice to use Flash and iPhone doesn't? Apple put Adobe on the back burner because they didn't need them nor did they want them anywhere near there operating system.
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NYScientist
,New York, on May 21, 2010 12:27 PM
Maybe not so smart. Google is most certainly a dominant player in tech, both quickly and rightly so. If they want to be Apple, however, they have a lot of work to do. No matter what Google, Adobe, Microsoft, or Little Debbie's do, Apple will continue on its own path, one that has served them well. What this means is that Apple will continue to make quality products that sell at a premium for all their disciples and everyone else who believes they just have to own an iDevice. It's not only the millions in sales that have made Apple the third largest company in the US in terms of market cap...it's their outrageous margins. One of the most significant turning points in Apple's history was when they (meaning Steve Jobs) made the choice not to compete with Microsoft. There was no announcement, no press conference, and no single product to trumpet this maneuver to Wall Street or the general public. It's just what they started doing. Now, Google is attempting to bait Apple into a competition that holds more for Google to gain than does Apple. Not gonna happen. Apple doesn't need to play off an ostensible competitor in order to thrive, at least not in the ways that Google seems to think that they do. Apple doesn't care what the rest of their nominal competitors do, as long as Apple continues to appeal to enough people to feed Apple's outrageous bottom line.
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Thomas
,Tucson, on May 21, 2010 11:37 AM
Mmmmmm... Froyo...
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Carol
,LA, CA, on May 21, 2010 11:27 AM
Why does this guy say "2x" instead of "2 times" faster???? Is this some actor/reader they hired to do the video?
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