Well, the day has finally come. Many T-Mobile users in the US and UK are reporting the Android: Cupcake update being installed on their phone. I’ve excitedly checked my phone throughout the day with no updates available just yet, but I will be sure to let everyone know what the newest version has to offer when I do get it.

According to Google, the following updates are in the newest version of Android:

• New Local Setting Page – Gives you option to pick different locales and pick different text inputs.
• New Option to view running and third party applications – An option to view running and third party applications from the normal application list. Does not provide a way to terminate them.
• New windows opening/closing animation effect – a new popping effect when windows are opened/closed.
• New default notepad – a very simple and ugly default notepad.
• New Global Time application – not sure if it will be provided by T-Mobile but it’s just a rotating Earth and I couldn’t get it to do anything else.
• New Spare Parts Application – Once again not sure if the official version will have this, but it provides a number of extra settings such as setting windows animation and transition animation speed, font size, end button behavior and etc. It also has a “display rotation” option which supposedly should allow auto-rotate base on orientation across the entire os, but it is not currently working.
• New Virtual Keyboard (as seen on video -ed.)- The virtual keyboard will pop up on every edit box. I didn’t feel any haptic feedback but I am thinking that it’s just not there on the example keyboard. Because the phone does not auto-rotate (an option exists but it doesn’t work), it’s very hard to type on it. The sample keyboard also does not provide auto-corrections.
• Slightly better looking buttons with more shadow.