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Android 2.0 (formerly codenamed 'Éclair') is the latest evolution of the mobile OS developed by Google and the Open Handset Alliance. This version is a chunky upgrade, superceding the current Android 1.6 software (dubbed 'Donut'), which was actually considered "a minor platform release". The first phone to feature Android 2.0 will be Motorola's comeback phone, the DROID (aka the dull-sounding Milestone in Europe).

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mjolnir

I think I am catching "DROID FEVER".

From the article:
"Android 2.0 also improves the virtual keyboard, which has always lagged behind the Apple iPhone's QWERTY keypad in terms of usability. The Android keyboard has a narrower layout, with smaller virtual keys that are harder to hit accurately when typing at speed.

The iPhone combats this by invisibly enlarging the so-called 'landing area' of certain keys as you type. This is based on a probabilistic analysis of the word that you're currently typing and by guessing the letters that you might be pressing next."

I wondered how Apple did that.