KDDI officially announces OS update of "IS03", finally to "Android 2.2"

KDDI officially announced the OS update of the Android smartphone 'IS03' released last November.

As of November last year, the update to Android 2.2It was said that it will be held next SpringHowever, we can expect improvement of response etc. by starting to update.

Details are as below.
About updating to "Android (TM) 2.2" in "IS03" | 2011 | KDDI CORPORATION

According to the press release of KDDI, the company is said to start providing OS update "IS03" from 10 am on April 14th. Newly added functions include support for Android 2.2 and data transmission / reception function in areas with maximum communication speed of 144 kbps (CDMA 1 × area), technology for improving speech quality "EVRC-BResponse to.

Android 2.2 newly adopted the compiler "Dalvik JIT" enables high-speed operation equivalent to 2 to 5 times as much as the conventional, and the performance of JavaScript is also improved by 2 ~ 5 by "V8 JavaScript engine" adopted in browser, It improves 3 times, improving the operation speed as a whole.

It has realized official support for Adobe's FLASH contents by installing "Flash Player 10.1", and the latest version of Flash Player 10.1 can be downloaded from the Android market.

Updates can not be performed by IS03 alone, and users must install the update execution tool on their computer from Sharp's official page themselves using a personal computer, then connect the IS03 with a PC with a USB cable.

Incidentally, Android 2.2 has newly adopted the "tethering function" that can connect the wireless LAN compatible device to the Internet by using the wireless LAN function installed on the smartphone, but considering that it is not announced in particular, the tethering function It seems better to think that you can not use it.