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Android Phone Owners Getting Upgrades to Cupcake

As JKOnTheRun reports, owners of the T-Mobile G1 Android phones are starting today to get over-the-air upgrades to Cupcake, the new version of Android that we covered here. Users in the U.K. and the U.S. are already getting the new firmware, according to Phandroid. We discussed the fact that the new version has a software keyboard, but some of the other features include YouTube video uploads, stereo Bluetooth support, Picasa photo uploads, and video recording. Check out more from JKOnTheRun.?


Report: Android Now Has 6 Percent of the U.S. Smartphone Market

In spite of rumblings that the Android operating system isn't spreading out to more handsets, consider this finding from researchers at AdMob: The Android OS now has 6 percent of the U.S. smartphone market and is tied with Palm as the fourth-largest OS. AdMob's latest research on the smartphone market also found that growth in requests [to AdMob's network] from devices running the Android and iPhone operating systems continued to outpace other platforms in March, despite the relatively limited number of devices in market. The growth in requests from devices is largely being driven by very healthy growth in usage of the app stores for both Android and the iPhone. Here are some of the other key points from AdMob's report.



Could Handwriting Recognition Become Android's Advantage?

As JKOnTheRun notes, The Android Developer's Blog has a detailed post up about soft keyboard input methods. The post includes this: The Android IMF is designed to support a variety of IMEs, including soft keyboard, hand-writing recognizers, and hard keyboard translators. Our focus, however, will be on soft keyboards, since this is the kind of input method that is currently part of the platform.? We've also noted that the new software development kit (SDK) for the next version of Android includes much better capabilities for both handwriting recognition and speech recognition. JKOnTheRun suggests that good handwriting recognition could become a big differentiator for Android devices as they compete with the iPhone and BlackBerry. Check out their thoughts.?


Data and Thoughts on How the Android-Based G1 Phone is Faring

GigaOm has an interesting item up on the keynote speech that Robert Dotson, chief executive of T-Mobile USA, gave this week at CTIA in Las Vegas. An estimated 1.5 million G1 Android-based smartphones have been ordered, and Dotson provided a lot of notable statistics about the usage patterns people are showing for the phone and Android. I've been using the G1, and my usage lines up with some of Dotson's stats.