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I’m a n00b to the full Android scene; I attain no clappers most it. But I hit been lurking the XDA forums for the last pair months and I feel easy rooting my Android devices (except the Hero) and swapping between “cooked ROMs� from different hackers devs to intend the latest and large features. So when the Interwebs started freaking discover over the G1’s lack of memory, which we all knew from the beginning, but that it would disadvantage the G1 from effort forthcoming updates, I started to worry. Alas, those closer to the demesne of Android hit shed a taste of reddened on what G1 owners could/should expect feat nervy regarding those filthy rumors most not effort Donut or Éclair. Mr Wimberly of Android and Me honour did a taste of dig and it seems as though we may hit jumped the gun. Maybe.
According to Wimberly, he’s seen builds of Donut listed as 1.6 in “mobile analytics reports� and that G1s will, in fact, obtain the update after this year. Which is probably rather rather than after considering Google dropped Donut a some weeks back. If you recall, backwards in July a T-Mobile higher up tipped us soured that quaternary updates (two major, two minor) would be pushed discover for Android this year. So far we’ve had three: two secondary (1.1 and CRC1) and digit field (1.5). And that leaves digit last field update, which I’m positive, module be Donut (1.6).
But don’t verify my articulate for it. Steve Kondik (aka Cyanogen over on the XDA forums) says that no matter the filler of forthcoming updates, “hackers module intend it discover to everyone digit way or another.� He’s also been tinkering with the past Donut code and released custom ROMs with Donut features built-in for unmoving G1s. He goes on to feature that despite Donut builds existence a some megabytes larger than Cupcake that densification methods are in place to diminish said builds to attain them sound in the limited expanse acquirable on the G1.
“I don’t conceive that Donut is feat to hit some problems run on the G,” he said “To attain it smaller, I ingest a agency titled optipng which analyzes png images and finds the best densification for them. Apps crapper be significantly reduced in filler by using this agency and applying meliorate densification to the package itself.”
It never hurts when Android engineers, same Dan Morril chime in, “Rumors of the G1’s demise are greatly exaggerated.�
Of course, we’ll never undergo until T-Mobile and Google officially push discover Donut for the G1 and myTouch 3G. But there is a split of wish and that’s all some G1 owner crapper ask for at this point.
via Cnet
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