What's new in Android 2 (Donut)?

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Goggle released a new beta version of Android 2 (nicknamed Donut) to the developers. Here are some key notes:

- Multi-touch
- Speech-to-text (to enable using Google Voice)
- Automatic backups
- Improved camera (application side)
- Global search in the entire phone (like the iPhone new feature)
- Performance improvements

Hmm... nice, although not "sexy" enough if you ask me.

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