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What to expect with 2.2 update next week?

It does seem a little underwhelming, but Flash will be more than enough to make me happy. Not sure I care about the homescreen enhancements though. I've been using home replacement apps for a while now. First Home++, but got sick of the bugs, and lately have been using HelixLauncher (though I still think Home++ was the best feature-wise). I've been using 7 home screens since only a month or so after I first got my droid, so going down to 5 and with less features... meh.

Hopefully, even though I didn't see direct mention of it, we'll get those fabled massive performance enhancements. Better overall performance + Flash will make it well worth updating.
 
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It does seem a little underwhelming, but Flash will be more than enough to make me happy. Not sure I care about the homescreen enhancements though. I've been using home replacement apps for a while now. First Home++, but got sick of the bugs, and lately have been using HelixLauncher (though I still think Home++ was the best feature-wise). I've been using 7 home screens since only a month or so after I first got my droid, so going down to 5 and with less features... meh.

Hopefully, even though I didn't see direct mention of it, we'll get those fabled massive performance enhancements. Better overall performance + Flash will make it well worth updating.
Go Launcher Pro for home replacement. the free version is great. blows the doors off of everyone else.
 
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They are adding more home screen space?


EDIT: SWEET!

which means for people like me using Launcher+ to just add additional home screens, we can ditch that app and just use the internal stock one. It's been great, but it causes some lags so it would be nice to ditch and just use the stock additional home screen system. Any apps I can ditch that mess with the system like that I am happy to.
 
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If it doesn't include the speed enhancements I'll be extremely disappointed. If so they only thing good will be Flash imo.

If they withhold the performance enhancements, tethering, and wifi hotspot broadcast like they're rumored to do... then the only reason for them to do that is to intentionally make the new phones look more appealing by holding back features in updates. That's downright shady. Actually directly ripping off your customer to get them to spend more money.

They're supposedly claiming that they're not doing the wifi hotspot thing because the Hardware in the Droid isn't capable of it. Only problem is that people with the 2.2 ROMs can do this on their droid... so if they claim it's hardware, then it's a blatant lie.
 
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I feel the same way.

Is there a way to tell if they upped the processer speed?

I'm fairly sure they bumped the processor speed to 600 mHz, plus the JIT-Dalvik compiler will make it feel a LOT faster than that. The only thing is, i've seen some folks who rooted on youtube saying that it feels slow at first but gradually picks up speed, so please dont throw a hissy fit if it isn't blazing fast right off the bat.
 
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