Tell HN: Android 2.2 - Froyo Released for Nexus One. Get it now. [Screenshots]
Google is beginning to phase in over-the-air updates to Android 2.2 / Froyo to Nexus One users on T-Mobile and will continue over the next couple weeks.
If you'd like to install it now, instructions are right here. Root access is not required; just download the update, drop it on your SD card, and follow the instructions to start the upgrade: http://phandroid.com/2010/05/22/manually-update-your-nexus-one-to-android-2-2-froyo/
For those without a Nexus One on T-Mobile, I've taken several screenshots around the OS and in a few applications. Check them out here if you like, and feel free to ask if you'd like to see something else: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cscotta/sets/72157623991007169/show/
The "Chrome to Phone" extension for cloud-to-device messaging is also available here: http://code.google.com/p/chrometophone/
Have fun!
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Flash Beta is on the android store. Thankfully, the equivalent of FlashBlock is built into Android's browser - change the plugin settings to on demand, and you have to tap to enable Flash boxes. Flash ads etc. on pages generally murder scrolling performance.
The shortened url http://bit.ly/aCDBwh translates to http://android.clients.google.com/packages/passion/signed-pa...
The error you get when trying to apply update.zip:
Looks like the version installed on the AT&T N1s isn't what the update script is looking for and it aborts. Wondering if modifying the update scripts would brick my phone.I'll just wait until I get an update notice (on my GSM ["AT&T"] phone here in Canada)
Ah well. It shall come at some point. Maybe not for weeks, but it will come.
One glitch in the linked instructions: when you get to the warning screen (android + /!\), hit power button, then volume+ - both at same time doesn't work. And the subsequent menus require use of the trackball, not the +/- buttons.
edit: wow...this feels turbocharged, in a variety of ways. Speed: better. Keyboard: better. Interface: much smoother. Flash: just works. Lots of small UI improvements. Feels like it's meant to compete against iPhone 4.
I tried it, and it works instantly here.
froyo looks great!
they made good use of the extra space at the bottom of the screens by adding the phone and browser icons next to the drawer button. it frees up two spots on your main screen!
chrome-to-phone is unbelievably slow even with a nexus one and a great internet connection. it takes literally one minute for the map to show on the phone!
Unfortunately my phone company locked my G1 down with android 1.5. So I'm waiting (impatiently) for the iPhone 4g.
I have CyanogenMod5-test5 running on my G1 and could install the official Twitter and Facebook apps and like it.
So sad that Google's dropping the direct web sales post-N1.
"It is not currently rootable"
Android is a tool like any other -- it can be used for good, and it can be used for evil.
(Why not return your phone as defective? It worked for people when Sony remotely disabled their Linux installs on the PS3.)