T-Mobile has started the process of pushing out the Cupcake update to users of the Android G1 phone in the UK. The updates will take place over the air and should not require the user to do anything.
T-Mobile UK customers who use a G1, get ready to have your cake and use it too. The long awaited Cupcake update to the Android OS is being rolled out to UK users now.
Cupcake – or Android 1.5 as it will now be known – is an overhaul of the basic Android OS that shipped with the G1. It adds a bundle of new features and generally polishes the OS up a bit. Android 1.5 will be the default OS on the new HTC Magic (the ‘G2′ by any other name) which T-Mobile missed out on to Vodafone.
As well as the much-trumpeted onscreen keyboard, Cupcake adds a video capture app (Camcorder) Bluetooth stereo pairing and Browser copy’n'paste. Bug fixes and enhancements brush up the accelerometer and GPS as well as smoothing out the browser scrolling.
The update will take about a minute and should just ‘happen’ over the air without you having to do a thing.
