Following up on all this Donut excitement we’ve seen over the last couple of days we hear that the Donut might not be Google’s Android 2.0 version. In fact, an Android team member, Romain Guy, said that Donut is not 2.0 but he failed to describe exactly what this update is. Guy went on further to say that Donut will not come with multitouch support so we’ll have to wait for some other Android version to bring us that feature.

On the other hand Cupcake wasn’t exactly 1.5 since 1.5 came from the Cupcake code branch. Should we assume that Donut is just another code branch that’s currently developing Android 2.0? What about Eclair and Flan?

via Android Developers

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Google’s own Andy Rubin has confirmed at a T-Mobile and Google event that we’re going to have more Android OS updates in the near future. Donut is already in the works with the Eclair and the Flan coming out later. He didn’t mention any arrival dates and specific features but we do know that these new Android OS versions will be centered on social internetworking. That means your future Android phone will be able to integrate Facebook updates when receiving incoming calls from some of your contacts. You’ll be able to see the current pictures and latest updates of that person in the contact list that’s currently calling. And hopefully we’re going to have even more social networking services integrated with the new OS.

We’ll be waiting for Google to further detail all these new internetworking features and dazzle us with even more new interesting additions. In the mean time we’re expecting more Android phones to arrive this year, as that earlier estimate of at least 20 phones this year has been confirmed again by Andy Rubin.

via PhoneScoop

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