![]() When you tap it, your application icons fly into place to take over the desktop in their own grid, and you can scroll them back and forward as if they were on a 3-D cube, shown here.Īndroid 2.1’s Live Wallpapers move and react in different ways when you touch the desktop–again, not strictly useful, but they make the phone feel as if it is alive in your hand and responding to your every action. The application menu button has been replaced with a button that looks like a grid (see bottom of the first screenshot). After spending just a few hours with my new phone, here are a few of my favorite Android 2.1 features, in screenshots.Ĭlick to enlarge each image to actual size (including the image of my current home screen, shown here).įirst off, Android 2.1 has some satisfying eye candy that doesn’t necessarily make you more productive, but does make the phone more fun to use. If all goes well, many existing Android users will get that update even if they don’t get a new handset. Now that that’s out of the way–the best part of the Nexus One is Android 2.1. (It doesn’t require a holster, and slid into my jeans pocket it doesn’t make my thigh look too fat–it gets lots of vanity points for that.) The screen is huge and crisp the dual noise-canceling microphones are sweet the true headphone jack is much-appreciated, and the glowing trackball is a nice touch. But the most important ingredient in this generation of touchscreen smartphones is the software: the screen is just a canvas that software paints on, and Android 2.1 is a work of art.Ĭoming from the chunky G1, the thin and flat Nexus One hearkens back to my iPhone days. Great software needs hardware that can keep up, and my new Nexus One is a sleek, awesome handset.
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