Android 2.2 Froyo is here
Today my Motorola Droid greeted me with a system update. The Android OS went from 2.1 to 2.2 in an almost seemless upgrade to the OS. Some of my ringtones got messed up for some reason, but they were easy to reset. Two more desktops were added for more application shortcuts and widgets. The slide up app window was replaced with three buttons signalling instant access to phone, apps, or web browser. The whole thing moves faster now, and there are many other improvements inside. Lifehacker did a nice writeup on Android 2.2 new features. I have to say that the best feature for me, being the owner of a Motorola Droid with sparse internal memory, is the move to SD card feature for the apps. Unfortunately as of this writing, almost no apps have this support, including some vary large Google apps like Gmail and Google Maps and Sky, as well as large apps like Facebook and games. Hopefully over time developers will enable this feature in their apps, as Google has left it up to the individual app developers. Gizmodo also has a nice nitpicky general Android 2.2 Froyo review here.
