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Android is great. The most of applications are free and are improving themselves. For example, yesterday, I got the latest of Task Manager 1.10.9. I got it has a battery indicator. I love it, it tells me the percentage of remaining battery!

That seems to be Android 2.0 - Messaging not much different. The new version has the photo of contact shows on screen.

But there is a search function. That is very helpful.That makes SMS messaging is more auditable. I always lost the track on the information in SMS, because most of phones cannot search in SMS.

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Android 1.6 is released not long time ago. While I am waiting for a ROM update of Android 1.6 from HTC, Android 2.0 is released this week. Wow that is a power of opensource. Moreover, there are a lot of great upgardes. I found the new version got a multi-touches virtual keyboard!(What does it mean there is multi-touches support by 2.0?)

There are a few key features updated:
1. Contacts and accounts
- multi accounts sync are supported
2. Exchange supported (Offically, I am using HTC Magic, I can sync with the MS Exchange).
3. Camera support enhanced
- such as built-in flash, Digital zoom
4. Better Virtual Keyboard
- it supports multi touch keyboard
5. New browser with HTML 5 supports
6. New Media framework

For the User Interface, I found some icons are updated, such as Phone, Contacts and Messaging.

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The most of your guys know Android can be a phone, but it can be a pedometer too. There is an apps, calls "Pedometer" in the Android Market for this purpose. I think it used the accelerometer in the phone to sense the motion.

I used that to track the calories I burned when I walked from my office to Brisbane City(I am driving to work every day now.). I am not sure the accuracy of this apps, at least it can give me a rough ideal about the amount of engry I burned.

I read a blog post from Android Developers Blog. There are a step-by-step tutorial for Gestures API. Finally, I got a more clear picture. Those gestures are to control the action of applications, like a shortcut. For example, you can write a circle on a screen, that means "Open a new file".

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