Size comparison

Some Specs

Default Desktop

Showing live wallpaper. Ripples and leaves floating on the home screen. “It’s dynamic and moving, and continues to move underneath my personalization.” Tap on the water and it ripples. Looks distracting!

New 3D framework in the Android platform. “You now have a mini-computer in your pocket — we wanted to push the 3D capabilities of these devices.” The app launcher is also now 3D, kind of like a vertical ribbon or scroll wheel.

New photo visualization system, Google worked with Cooliris on this. The images tip based on accelerometer (a bit more eye candy that doesn’t really do anything). Photos cluster based on time, date, location etc.

“What if I could enable every single text field in the phone with voice?” Android 2.1 has now voice-enabled every text field in the device.

Demo shot below was spoken in — the speech to text is done on the server side, not locally. Ohh, “special surprise” app: Google Earth for Android!

Panning and 3D perspective in Google Earth on the phone. Voice is enabled in Google Earth, too — saying “mount Fuji” actually takes you over to Japan!