There are a number of new features and technologies come with the Android 1.6 including frame-work level support for additional screen sizes and resolutions like QVGA and WVGA, new telephony APIs to support CDMA, gestures APIs, a text-to-speech engine, and the ability to integrate with Quick Search Box. You can find the details about this here.

The Android 1.6 SDK requires a new version of Android Development Tools (ADT). Besides the SDK also provide tools to enable you to download updates and additional components like new add-ons or platforms. It’s also said that the applications written for older version of Android will continue to run on devices with Android 1.6.

Check a video of the Android 1.6 highlights below:

Now i guess people are speculating about the new devices running with the Android 1.6. We don’t know yet, but i guess devices that will be announced after October or at least close to October will be likely to run the Android 1.6. One of that i think is the next Motorola Android phone that will be announced in the next few weeks. So we’ll see.

[via: Android Blog]