Android 2.2 FroYo for HTC Legend

HTC has confirmed that it's HTC Legend will get the FroYo upgrade.

The upgrade will be done anytime in the 3rd quarter of the on-going year,

which is September to you and me.

Android 2.2 will offer greatly increased speed for applications and web browsing due to a brand new “virtual machine” for apps and Javascript engine for the web browser. Apps will run 2 to 5 times faster than with Android 2.1, and the web browser’s Javascript support will be 2 to 3 times faster as well. Adobe Flash 10.1 (and Air) support will be included in the update.

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I can't wait for audible searching and the interface looks much nicer, 

including drop down menus.

Should be sweet, too bad my phones so new or I would root it!

Try FroYo on your desktop.

Android Apps for the HTC Legend

Phone: HTC Legend
Carrier: Virgin Mobile
17 total apps not including pre-installed; 12MB total app size
11 free (65%), 6 paid (35%)
$30.35CA total price
$21.96US + £4.49

• Wifi Analyzer
• Fun and sometimes useful
• Ads can be blocked 1 week at a time
  
• AppBrain App Market
• Where this list was created
• I think it's better than appaware
  
• Meteor Brick Breaker (PAID)
• Recommended Arkanoid Type Game
  
• DoggCatcher Podcast Player (PAID)
• HIGHLY Recommended Stream Catcher
  
• NetCounter
• Recommended
  
• ClipNote - Clipboard Monitor (PAID) Free Available
• Recommended
  

• tvJunkie
• Recommended; great for tracking TV shows
  
• CallTrack
• Tracks cell calls
  
• SNesoid (PAID) Free Available
• Hardly use
  
• PhoneMyPC (PAID)
• If you need remote access
  
• Advanced Task Manager (PAID) Free Available
• Recommended
  
• ASTRO File Manager
• Recommended
  
• Google Maps
• Recommended
  
• Scoreboard
• A sports ticker, highly customizable and nice looking
  
• Battery Life
• Bigger, better battery widget
  
• Ringdroid
• Make ring tones from songs on your phone
  
• FingerPaint
• Finger paint on your phone
  

"(PAID) Free Available" usually means a free version with ads is available.
If the price is right I'll pay for ad free.

View above app list on AppBrain

Tried and removed:

• TWiT.tv by Mediafly
• using DoggCatcher to get these great podcasts,
• this is great if you want to stream from the TWIT Network
  
• WikiMobile Encyclopedia
• Use Wiki Mobile Online
  
• MixZing MediaPlayer
• Didn't work as advertised, using DoggCatcher
• and built in media player
  
• Barcode Scanner
• Fun for awhile... but "for why???"
  
• Tech Buzz Widget
• Again, using DoggCatcher to grab some RSS tech feeds
• Nice but minimal and can't change to keep my HTC stylin'
  
• Buzz Deck
• OK, tried to use for some web pages, browser is bettter
• For gossip folk, MSNBC News Feed on DoggCatcher got
  
• the Lindsay Lohan news faster than BuzzDeck
  
• Zimly Media Player
• Another Media Player, Looks good
• Using HTC built in player
  
• Dice Widget
• DL from HTC; looks great, works great
• will DL again if I ever need dice, but don't
• need to keep on phone
  
• ShopSavvy (EVO fix)
• Never used, finally uninstalled, maybe try later
  
• Epocrates
• OK, Drug Info, Not much else
• No real use
  

Missing in Canada on the Android Market are:

Google Earth & Audible

iPhone4 vs HTC Evo

This is pretty funny, check it out.

Some crude language (you were warned).

Source user link:

http://www.youtube.com/user/tinywatchproductions

Calculating your real bandwidth speed.

As a rule of thumb:
Given a broadband line speed, dividing by 5 and taking off 25% is a reasonable estimate of the maximum likely data download speeds (in bytes of data).
My connection: Rate from ISP 10 mb/s = (10/5)-25% = 1.75 mb/s

TCP has an overhead in transmission that can be about 5-10%, but ATM overhead has a 15% overhead. So you can expect to lose up to 25% of your purchased speed at when counting application data transfer rate.
There are additional factors affecting the throughput results. There are applications running that usually take up a small amount of bandwidth to communicate with their servers, therefore only the remaining bandwidth is available for your downloads.

The Operating System TCP settings will also affect the results because it is usually not optimized. Visit http://www.dslreports.com for further information on optimizing your TCP settings.

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