Information about Android Cupcake update surfaces

Android users should be excited about a new software update called “Cupcake” coming to their phones. Cupcake is going to fix many issues with the operating system and add a bundle of features. Some of the new features include

• New Local Setting Page — Gives you option to pick different locales and pick different text inputs.
• New Option to view running and third party applications — An option to view running and third party applications from the normal application list. Does not provide a way to terminate them.
• New windows opening/closing animation effect — a new popping effect when windows are opened/closed.
• New default notepad — a very simple and ugly default notepad.
• New Global Time application — not sure if it will be provided by T-Mobile but it’s just a rotating Earth and I couldn’t get it to do anything else.
• New Spare Parts Application — Once again not sure if the official version will have this, but it provides a number of extra settings such as setting windows animation and transition animation speed, font size, end button behavior and etc. It also has a “display rotation” option which supposedly should allow auto-rotate base on orientation across the entire os, but it is not currently working.
• New Virtual Keyboard — The virtual keyboard will pop up on every edit box. I didn’t feel any haptic feedback but I am thinking that it’s just not there on the example keyboard. Because the phone does not auto-rotate (an option exists but it doesn’t work), it’s very hard to type on it. The sample keyboard also does not provide auto-corrections.
• Slightly better looking buttons with more shadow

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