Google has rolled out a feature enhancing update for its Gingerbread flagship device, the Samsung manufactured Nexus S. Android 2.3.3 is the version number associated with this latest update which simply puts takes the NFC capabilities of the Nexus One successor to the next level.
The notable features listed below are ones that developers will be excited to know about:
- A comprehensive NFC reader/writer API that lets apps read and write to almost any standard NFC tag in use today.
- Advanced Intent dispatching that gives apps more control over how/when they are launched when an NFC tag comes into range.
- Some limited support for peer-to-peer connection with other NFC devices.
The update besides bringing a new API for NFC (Near Field Communication), brings new APIs for Bluetooth, graphics, media framework, and speech recognition.
One group which won't be all excited about this latest Gingerbread update will be Nexus One users. And I don't blame them for being angry on Google as the search engine giant is yet to bring the Gingerbread OTA update for the Android 2.1 flagship device. Moreover Nexus S users would be disappointed by this update as it doesn't bring the much awaited fix for the random reboot issue.
[via Android and Me]