OK, HTC G1 owners. You can stop holding your breath. We finally have a firm release date for the highly anticipated Google Android update “Cupcake” and that is in April. So get ready G1 users, you’re in for a treat.

The “Cupcake” update has been touted as one of the saviors to the Android OS and people are definitely going to be happy when it is officially available.

The update includes the following:

• Virtual QWERTY keyboard. No more having to slide out the keyboard for a quick text!
• Video recording,
• Bluetooth stereo streaming
• Voice recorder
• Saving attachments from MMS capability

One of the features that is not in the update is the multi touch capability. We’ve seen demos of it being possible, but it still seems that official developers are going to leave that to the side for now.

These are a few of the updates which is just going to keep making this Android OS even stronger. Although developers and tech heads were quite happy with the Android release and its talk of open source, many regular users were disappointed with the actual functioning of the OS because of its ostensible limits. However as it is a few months old and updates are starting to gain steam, we believe that its popularity will start to jump quickly.

Whether or not the upcoming HTC release, the Magic (or G2) will come equipped with Cupcake, has yet to be determined. We’re hoping yes, but if not updates should not be difficult.

Does this change your mind about Android in anyway? Have you had any good or bad experiences with it?

[via GSM Arena]