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Google demonstrated an early version of Android 2.0, codenamed "Donut," at the Google I/O developer conference & handed out free unlocked Android developer Phones.  Android 2.0 adds integrated local & web search, handwriting gesture UI, Google Translate & text-to-speech features. The Android project seems to have adopted an alphabetical pastry theme, as Android 1.5 was called "Cupcake" & some sources say the follow-on to Donut will be codenamed "Eclair". Android 2.0 adds a universal search feature that can hunt through contacts, calendars, music & other content simultaneously, both locally on the device and online, according to eWEEK. New text-to-speech & speech-to-text capabilities are provided via an API that provides access to Google Voice Search to find information, says the story. Other new features are said to include the porting of the Google Translate translation service to Android phones, as well as a "handwriting gestures" capability. Google announced that it expected 18 to 20 Android phones to ship this year & the demo of Android 2.0, will be available for download in some form in 3 to 6 months.
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