Just a place to track all the new features in Android 2.2 "Froyo"

• Flash support (download from store) - can set browser plug-ins to run "on demand" if you want to choose when flash will play
  
• 2 dedicated soft buttons on home screen - phone and browser
• Exchange support (auto discovery, remote wipe, exchange calendars with sync)
• Camera updates - settings, LED light while recording video
• Gallery - "zoom out" to see a stack of pics
• WiFi tethering and hotspot (carrier has to enable)
• Keyboard - swipe up from top to get a number row of keys, multi-lang support
• Speed: JIT compiler, apps 2-5x faster
  
• V8 JavaScript engine: web apps 2-3x faster
• Cloud-to-device API: browser extension for Chrome and Firefox. Send "intents", web pages, emails, etc. to phone (via cloud)
• App data backup and restore
• Apps can run from SD card
• Apps can auto-update from the store
• "Update all" apps

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