“If you’re looking to price compare a product that’s right in front of you, why type out its name and dig through irrelevant results when you can just scan the barcode?”

via Google Product Search For Android Adds Barcode Scanning, Just As We Predicted .

Thoughts:

• It has a lot of buttons
• There’s no sliding keyboard, and no stylus
• The camera is 5 MP, it has a flash
• It has video but it doesn’t focus
• It probably doesn’t have GPS
• “The keyboard is not really that good yet…”
• When you’re taking a photo, it shows you a preview of the previous photo taken. Which is weird.

There are some UI element updates that may break the layout of some existing Android apps:

You can see in this example that the buttons and checkboxes have a new appearance. Even though these changes do not affect binary nor source compatibility, they might still break the UI of your apps. As part of the UI refresh, the minimum size of some of the widgets has changed. For instance, Android 1.1 buttons have a minimum size of 44×48 pixels whereas Android 1.5 buttons now have a minimum size of 24×48 pixels

From source: UI Framework changes in Android 1.5

It turns out that G1 firmware revisions RC29 and earlier literally interpret everything you type as command-line operations, so if you happen across a legit command, it’s going to get executed — with superuser permissions, no less. No, seriously. Just go to the messaging app, the browser, or anywhere else a text box is convenient, type “reboot,” press the enter key, and watch magic happen.

Epic Android bug interprets your typing as system commands