Mmmm Donuts!

So by now I hope you’ve heard, Google released Android 1.6 to the developer community. Yay for donuts! Should be seeing it available for upgrade possibly as early as October which would be awesome.

There’s no mention of an SMS time stamp fix yet, you can be sure if there isn’t one I am going to be an unhappy geek. Which may finally motivate me to get off my butt and flash with Cyanogen as I’ve been meaning to.

Some things that are mentioned:

• Different screen sizes and resolutions – Ok this could be neat, will have to see what the options are
• New txt-to-speech API – Never tried the old one, may have to do for comparison
• Market upgrade – This is the one I’m most interested to see aside from the time stamps… a quick search of *everything* could be useful. And will ti work better? I often get failures when I’m searching.

As more information is released I’ll share what I find. Let me know your thoughts! For now I’ll leave you with the official introduction video:

Firmware Update for Android Phones!

In an effort to keep all 5 of you my dear readers  in the loop as to what’s going on with the Android SMS Time Stamp Issue I spoke again with Tech Support this morning.

A message has just been released to all Android Tech Support agents this morning regarding this issue. There is a scheduled firmware update for mid July. Apparently this will resolve the SMS Time Stamp being locked onto EST for all received messages. Good on them for staying ontop of it, although waiting til July so I can finally have properly threaded txts? Bah.

Guess we’ll just have to deal with it til then. Be sure that as soon as that update is available I will tell you where to get it and walk you through the install!