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Developers can now get their hands on Donut.

The new SDK for version 1.6 of Google's Android mobile OS -- a release codenamed "Donut" -- has made its debut today, offering developers improvements that will extend the reach of mobile apps written for Google's open source platform to more wireless devices and networks.

Android 1.6 includes support for CDMA, additional screen sizes and a text-to-speech engine, among other updates, according to Xavier Ducrohet, Android developer tools engineer for Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), who posted the announcement at the Android Developers Blog.

"You will have access to new technologies, including framework-level support for additional screen resolutions, like QVGA and WVGA, new telephony APIs to support CDMA, gesture APIs, a text-to-speech engine, and the ability to integrate with Quick Search Box," Ducrohet wrote.

He added that Donut will be officially making its way to phones "as early as October."

The most important feature of 1.6, which follows the May roll out of Cupcake or version 1.5 , is the support for CDMA smartphones, which means Android can now -- theoretically -- run on handsets operating on Verizon Wireless and Sprint, adding more potential partners to the mix.

At present, only T-Mobile offers Android phones in the U.S., but Sprint has already revealed plans to offer the Android-powered HTC Hero.

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