Menlo Park (ip-192.com): Owners of several HTC smartphones powered by Google’s Android operating system can look forward to an upgrade. The Taiwan-based manufacturer announced that most Android based phones launched in 2010 will get an upgrade to Android 2.2 later in the year. This will include the new Sprint Evo 4G (ip-192.com reported here), the Desire, the Droid, and most likely any other phones currently under development.
Google unveiled the new version of the operating system during the I/O conference 2010 in San Francisco. The latest Android adds a remote wipe feature that lets Microsoft Exchange administrators reset a stolen or lost device to factory defaults, and Google added numeric PIN and alphanumeric password options to lock the device down.
Android 2.2, which still needs some final touches before it is released to device makers in the coming weeks, requires only a password and username to initiate sync with Exchange, and calendars hosted on Exchange servers are now supported. Adobe Flash 10.1 is required to allow the web browser to display video content, play games, and use some navigational functions. Security analysts still don’t recommend Android based smartphones for the enterprise environment since no encryption is offered.
This could all change later in the year when Android 2.3 alias Gingerbread is scheduled to be released.
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