3.0 Android video chat, support for Google TV Leanback

Now that about every high-end smartphone has accustomed or is in the action of accepting the advancement to Android 2.2, absorption turns to Android 3.0, the Gingerbread body optimized for book computers.

Thanks to Android-watching blog Phandroid, the apple now knows a bit more.

In accession to what appears to be a above graphical check of icons and user interface, the better accepted appearance advancing in Android 3.0 cover video babble abutment leveraging the Google Talk protocols and SIP abutment for Google Voice.

SIP, or Session Initiation Protocol in Google Articulation will let users accept calls to Google Articulation over Wi-Fi and cellular data.

"For those who use Android accessories after a articulation plan, this agency you can still use your buzz as a buzz as continued as you're abreast a WiFi connection," the blog noted. "Nothing groundbreaking because there are abounding VoIP options in the bazaar currently, but it's notable that Google's abacus this abutment natively."

This shouldn't arise as a surprise. Google has apparent a adroitness for porting technology from absolute Web applications and inserting them into added Web services.

In fact, Google Articulation has already provided a prime archetype of this with Google's affiliation of Google Articulation into Gmail to let users alarm phones via Gmail.

Google beneath to affirm the Gingerbread data if asked, acquainted that: "Gingerbread is due out by the end of the year but we accept annihilation abroad to say at this time."

Phandroid offered affirmation of a graphical check in a bleared screenshot, acquainted that a lot of of the accepted icons accept been redesigned for a simpler and cleaner look, apperception that this could be the plan of UI adept Matias Duarte, who abutting Google from Palm in May.

Moreover, apps in Android 3.0 will added carefully hew to the OS, the blog said. Specifically, the YouTube app on Android 3.0 will cover the adeptness to ascendancy YouTube Leanback, which provides connected video play for Google TV.

This is acute because Android handsets are accepted to serve as addition limited ascendancy for Google TV above the Logitech keyboard ambassador and Sony Internet TV and Blu-ray amateur limited controls.

Of course, what is accepted is that Android 3.0 has been optimized for book computers, acknowledgment to the well-documented 1280-by-760 resolution.

Indeed, LG scrapped alms an Android 2.2 tablet, acceptable in apprehension of Android 3.0 after this year or aboriginal 2011.

Finally, we apperceive Android 3.0 tablets are coming, acknowledgment to Digitimes, which said Oct. 19 that Google has afresh notified its ally that book PC architect samples for Android 3.0 will arise in December.