Android RC33 for the UK coming soon

Whilst US users of the T-Mobile G1 received the latest update to Android, the so called "RC33" release earlier this month, UK users have been somewhat left in the dark, still stuck on RC8.


RC33 brings a number of cool things to Android, notably voice search and Google Latitude. Note that this isn't the long awaited "Cupcake" branch of Android - it'll be a while (if ever) until we get that on a G1.

According to a comment on this blog post, someone called T-Mobile support and was told to expect the update "sometime around February 20th".

Let's hope they're not lying - I've been developing on Android SDK 1.1 without a hardware device to test it on!

Incidentally - if you want RC33 but don't want to wait, you can follow the instructions here to get it. Don't come crying to me if you brock your phone though... ;-)

Second Android Handset unveiled

During this week, the Mobile World Congress has been in progress in Barcelona, and whilst we were expecting to see a whole raft of Android gubbins, it seems that the only big news is the release of the second Android-powered handset, in the form of the HTC Magic.

The Magic will be available exclusively on Vodafone and will be the first handset to feature the Cupcake branch of Android.

This is major news for us here at SASS Digital as Cupcake features signficantly improved Audio-APIs which will help no end in our ongoing development of music applications.

The big question is - will it support multi-touch? I suspect I know the answer...