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]

As we know that the fastest processors in the market right now is 1GHz processor built Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Platform chipset products QSD8250. This is the one that will come with the Sony Ericsson Xperia X3 Rachael which will run on Android OS. Looking at the Donut’s features been discussed recently, it seems that this 3D gaming feature is not included. So Andy Rubin probably means that for the Eclair or Flan or even the fourth version. Based on this fact, the upcoming Sony Ericsson Xperia X3 is likely to ship with the Eclair (Android 2.0) or the third version Flan.