Video of Android 2.1 on the Dell Streak

 

Engadget got their hands on the Android 2.1 firmware for the Dell Streak yesterday and they decided to share some of the improvements they’ve noticed as well as a video:

The Android 2.1 update is coming through O2 overseas “early next month” and Froyo is coming “in September”

NumPad and Capslock are gone from the keyboard

Google Maps now supports Pinch to Zoom

New dialer skin

Android’s Gallery App preinstalled

Music player received a minor UI update

Music player controls work when screen is locked

720P Video recording has been added

icons on the homescreen now only fit 24 per page instead of 32 as before

Second taskbar button from the left now shows recent apps

Dell’s own RSS and music widgets have been made wider

Engadget also put up a few benchmark scores that we can compare to the Streak’s 1.6 benchmark scores and see how Android 2.1 improved performance:

	Android 1.6 on Streak	Android 2.1 on Streak
LinPack	4.183 MFLOPS	6.949 MFLOPS
Quadrant	468	767
Fps2D	28 fps	30 fps
An3DBench Total Score	2317	3521

Can imagine the difference when you root it and load Android 2.2 on it…

Here’s the video:

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