Andre Yoskowitz
19 Oct 2010 15:00
Phandroid has posted a blurry pic this week of the Nexus One smartphone running Google's upcoming Android 3.0 Gingerbread, giving everyone an early look of the new features coming with the firmware update.
There are a number of cosmetic changes including the notification bar becoming a darker gray and the dialer and browser buttons becoming light green, the same color as the Android mascot.
Additionally, native voice and video calling will be made available through Google Talk, over both 3G and Wi-Fi.
The YouTube app will be completely re-done, as well, integrating it more into the OS.
Google Voice will be updated to allow users to receive calls to your Google Voice number over Wi-Fi and cellular data.
For now those are the only confirmed aspects of the upcoming Android update, which many believe Google will use to unify the platform, moving away from the fragmentation issues that have so far plagued Android. Expect Gingerbread by the end of the year.