That seems to be Android 2.0 - Messaging not much different. The new version has the photo of contact shows on screen.

But there is a search function. That is very helpful.That makes SMS messaging is more auditable. I always lost the track on the information in SMS, because most of phones cannot search in SMS.

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Android 1.6 is released not long time ago. While I am waiting for a ROM update of Android 1.6 from HTC, Android 2.0 is released this week. Wow that is a power of opensource. Moreover, there are a lot of great upgardes. I found the new version got a multi-touches virtual keyboard!(What does it mean there is multi-touches support by 2.0?)

There are a few key features updated:
1. Contacts and accounts
- multi accounts sync are supported
2. Exchange supported (Offically, I am using HTC Magic, I can sync with the MS Exchange).
3. Camera support enhanced
- such as built-in flash, Digital zoom
4. Better Virtual Keyboard
- it supports multi touch keyboard
5. New browser with HTML 5 supports
6. New Media framework

For the User Interface, I found some icons are updated, such as Phone, Contacts and Messaging.

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Google Voice is a new feature from Google. Currently, that is still available by invite. I have watched some video clips about its features. Yes, Google Voice has a voice mail feature and you can listen your voice mail online. That is a lot of VOIP applications have this feature. I have used Skype Voicemail around 4 years ago. But it can do voice to text. It can provice a voicemail transcription to your Gmail and sms too! That is great, it makes all your voicemails are searchable. Today, I read Google offical blog, you can bring your own mobile and binded with Google Voice(but I think that is US only).

Reference Links:
Google Offical Blog
Google Voice Video

I had a look on Officeworks yesterday. I found nearly all new computers are still pre-installed with Windows Vista, not Windows 7. That sounds only Dell is selling new computers with Windows 7, but I saw all demo computers in Officeworks yesterday are still with Windows Vista.