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Meet The New Android

Google just announced the next version of its Android mobile operating system. Dubbed Froyo, Google promises that this latest version will be significantly faster and more enterprise-friendly. "Froyo will also offer a backup API, a 'cloud-to-device' messaging API and support for tethering and portable hotspots," notes ReadWriteWeb. "In addition, Android 2.2 will feature a significantly faster browser and better ways to find Android apps."

Regarding Google's cloud-to-device messaging service, Google's VP of engineering Vic Gundotra said the API is not meant to "make up for the lack of basic features like multitasking." (That remark, according to ReadWriteWeb, is a barely veiled dig at Apple and the iPad, which doesn't presently support multitasking.) Rather, Google's new API will let users send "Android intent" messages from other services like Google Maps. During his I/O keynote, Gundotra sent directions from Google Maps on the Web directly to a phone to illustrate.

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