My Samsung Galaxy S and Android froyo 2.2

I’ve just upgraded my android phone with the froyo 2.2 version.

Though you can see the http://developer.android.com/sdk/android-2.2-highlights.html, there’s a number of interesting new features I noticed. Some are from the Samsung user interface "TouchWiz".

The first one is the stamp on sms, e-mail with the numbber of unread items.

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Figure 1. TouchWiz home screen

The management of the seven home screens is also reviewed : with the pinch gesture, you can have a view of the 7 small screen you can arrange with drag and drop and delete dragging to the  dust bin.

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Figure 2. device-16

On my first home screen, I’ve put :

  • the new fancy widget with the comic weather theme (yes, themes are available now, and a pro version too)

  • google navigation shortcuts (I’ll write a review soon, with the enhancement I’m awaiting to make it the perfect tool for navigation)

There’s some new standard applications too :

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Figure 3. Home screen
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Figure 4. a new application
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Figure 5. the main application management screen
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Figure 6. move to SD-Card
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Figure 7. unavailable service

Yes, Press Reader is new and not "online" for the moment.

The management of applications has changed too :

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Figure 8. Suppress an application

and the market comes with his new features :

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Figure 9. batch upgrade
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Figure 10. Auto upgrade

A great enhancement is the new feature of text selection, copy/cut/paste :

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Figure 11. Text selection
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Figure 12. drag to select

Once you have already made a copy or cut, there’s also  a paste icon available.

The newq notification bar have new toggle buttons :

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Figure 13. new buttons

The goggle enhanced search tool :

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Figure 14. google search

It’s nothing but a little change in the colors :

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Figure 15. popup dialog

And some more colors again :

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Figure 16. new menu colors
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