Let's go back to EE and android 2.2

I do not want to upset users, but for now 2.2 on EE does not make sense (and I'm not sure that anything higher than 2.1 will be officially released in full feature version anytime). ;(

2.2 has three advantages: speed, battery life, and a full Flush. All this works because the 2.2 uses a graphics accelerator, as well as special modes of operation (set of instructions) of hardware. The real problem is that EE's hardware not supported or (and this give us an hope) developers of hardware doesn't published drivers to support the needed modes.

For example, full version of Flash 10 (for android) reqired processor ARMv7 and higher. We have ARMv5, so flash is unstable (trully it just force close the browser, so nothing work). But on another hand EE's PXA168 board have an MMX coproccessor which can be used for Flash player. But only either Adobe or hardware manufactor can make it happen.

The same for android GUI speed. EE's engineer said that user interface is very slow due to big resolution of EE. But the truth is that 2.2 use GPU (hardware acceleration) to speed up many things. At first I thought that there's no GPU on EE, but after some research I found that EE have good enough hardware accelerator on board. So ones again, if EE's enginers will ask manufactor for drivers which support hardware acceleration, android will work very fast and smoothly on EE display.

As for power consumption in 2.2, once again on one hand it's also required manufactors drivers, but the real problem is that it's very bugly. For example WiFi loose connection but show that connection exist and don't want to reconnect.

As for Android 3.0, wich is optimised for tablets, it's even more heavily uses hardware acceleration. So the only hope to get anything higher than 2.1 is that EE will make some pressure on hardware and Flash manufactors.

p.s. does the specification of EE originally mention that it support Adobe Flash, wich were changed to Flash Lite lately?