Android 2.0 is now official... many new features

Android v2.0 known as Eclair is official and there's a plenty improvements it brings.

 The camera interface got revamped and it's now well equipped to handle high-end cameras. The browser got a major update as well, as did Bluetooth and many other aspects of the OS.

One of the best mobile browser we've seen in previous Android and with Android 2.0 they've made it even better.

The browser got partial HTML5 support, including the interesting video tag support. YouTube already has a demo up and running, which uses HTML5 instead of Flash to show videos. Even though it's just a demo, the interface is a replica of the Flash version, both visually and functionally. It works only in desktop Chrome and Safari so far because it uses the MP4 codec. Many mobile devices have hardware acceleration for that codec, so this could be the replacement of the mobile version of YouTube, which offers only low-quality videos.

The missing thing in Android's arsenal was proper Bluetooth support, but v2.0 brings support for sending files as well as the Phone Book Access Profile, which allows car kits to download the phonebook and also display the name of the caller. We even saw a demo, which shows the makings of a Bluetooth multi-player game too.

Messaging is improved with a combined inbox, search through SMS and MMS messages and easy synchronization with multiple accounts (including Exchange accounts).

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