HTC Thunderbolt coming update to Android 2.3
HTC’s thundering smart Thunderbolt Android phone was recently announced and made available with Android 2.2 OS preloaded under its skin. While the absence of Android 2.3 OS did disappoint us initially, the latest revelation by an alleged HTC representative seems to bring back the joy.
In a mail response concerning some Bluetooth issue, a HTC representative revealed to Droid-Life that the HTC Thunderbolt Android 2.3 update was due for a Q2, 2011 release. And its claimed to bring along quite a bountiful of features and improvements for the Thunderbolt.
HTC Thunderbolt was never mentioned to be a NFC-capable device, but the list of features and improvements specified by the HTC representatives included it. However, we will exercise patience until HTC airs a direct confirmation to assert this revelation.
Here’s a quick list of what’s claimed to be new in the HTC Thunderbolt Android Gingerbread update :
- New User Features
- UI refinements for simplicity and speed
- Faster, more intuitive text input
- One-touch word selection and copy/paste
- Improved power management
- Control over applications
- Internet calling
- Near-field communications
- Downloads management
- Enhancements for gaming
- Performance
- Native input and sensor events
- Open API for native audio
- Native graphics management
- Native access to Activity lifecycle, window management
- Native access to assets, storage
- Robust native development environment
- New forms of communication
- Internet telephony
- Near Field Communications (NFC
- Rich multimedia
- Mixable audio effects
- Support for new media formats
- Access to multiple cameras
- New Platform Technologies
- Media Framework
- New media framework fully replaces OpenCore, maintaining all previous codec/container support for encoding and decoding.
- Integrated support for the VP8 open video compression format and the WebM open container format
- Adds AAC encoding and AMR wideband encoding
- Linux Kernel
- Upgraded to 2.6.35
- Networking
- SIP stack, configurable by device manufacturer
- Support for Near Field Communications (NFC), configurable by device manufacturer
- Updated BlueZ stack
- Dalvik runtime
- Dalvik VM:
- Concurrent garbage collector (target sub-3ms pauses)
- Adds further JIT (code-generation) optimizations
- Improved code verification
- StrictMode debugging, for identifying performance and memory issues
- Code libraries:
- Expanded I18N support (full worldwide encodings, more locales)
- Faster Formatter and number formatting. For example, float formatting is 2.5x faster.
- HTTP responses are gzipped by default. XML and JSON API response sizes may be reduced by 60% or more.
- New collections and utilities APIs
- Improved network APIs
- Improved file read and write controls
- Updated JDBC
- Updates from upstream projects:
- OpenSSL 1.0.0a
- BouncyCastle 1.45
- ICU 4.4
- zlib 1.2.5
It has an 8 megapixel HD-capable autofocus camera on the back which is flanked by a LED flash while a 1.3 megapixel on the face of the phone enables video calling. Other interesting features include a 1GHz processor with 768MB of RAM, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi connectivity, integrated Google apps, Google Android 2.2 OS and much more.
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