some news about 2.1 on the droid

[jimbubba3]

I just saw a post online saying that the droid won't be getting some of the 3d aspects of the 2.1 update but they said the cliq would. Does that make any sense ? If the cliq can run it I would assume the droid could.

 

[iamloco724]

source?...i find that very unlikely

 

[jimbubba3]

Android an' Droid News Updates 2Day: All Moto Android Smartphones (Droid) Will Be Upgraded to 2.1 - WIRELESS AND MOBILE NEWS

 

[messenger13]

Hey, here's a thought ... why don't we hang tight and see what actually happens instead off guessing and speculating??? Just a thought. I know I can get kinda crazy sometimes.

 

[taz55]

Hey, here's a thought ... why don't we hang tight and see what actually happens instead off guessing and speculating??? Just a thought. I know I can get kinda crazy sometimes.

man your out of your mind, the world is ending in 2012 who has time to wait

 

[jimbubba3]

Speculation is the best part of the 2.1 update. No one knows what will truly happen. We all know that waiting to see what happens is inevitable,we have no choice but to wait. I just like seeing what everyone is saying.

 

[iamloco724]

i just dont see how the cliq could get something over the droid..not only is the droid the more popular phone right now but its more capable

 

[Cerebral Assasn]

I think most of what is being said in the previous link was just speculation on the part of the website. Looking at a couple of other websites...they state that the Motorola CEO says that Droid will get the upgrade, but that's as far as he went....

Motorola: Droid, Cliq Getting Updates - Reviews by PC Magazine

I think it's all speculation at this point. We all know Droid is capable, so I assume we will get the 2.1 update with all the features....

 

[superdesi]

i heard you can control your microwave AND your wife with the 2.1 update.....THINK OF THE POSSIBILITIES!!!

 

[jimbubba3]

My thoughts exactly. I am going to assume that its a miss print and they meant to say the cliq won't have the 3d features. I running humancyborgs 2.1 rom on my droid as we speek and its runs almost perfect so I know it can handle 2.1

 

[BigMace23]

Pretty sure that the nexus doesn't have any htc skins over the stock android, so if that is the stock android it will be the same thing on the droid

 

[gentlefury]

the 2.1 droid update will be identical to what is in the Nexus One, since it is stock. And if for some reason its not, just root your phone and make it so. Simple

 

[jimbubba3]

I had contemplated unrooting my droid, and then I came to my senses. Once everything is open sourced from the nexus one we will have access to a great rom.

 

[vincentp]

There are so many different stories about the Droid and 2.1 floating around right now. Every website or person has their own account of what was said and their own interpretation. The only thing we can be pretty certain of is that we will get it - and probably soon. The details are unfortunately still a mystery. There are too many different rumors for me to trust any one in particular.

 

[sooper_droid12]

One website said that the Motorola CEO said both the Droid and Eris would be getting 2.1. Of course, the Eris is built by HTC, not Motorola. You have to understand that not all these writers know what they're talking about.

 

[SharonW]

Android an' Droid News Updates 2Day: All Moto Android Smartphones (Droid) Will Be Upgraded to 2.1 - WIRELESS AND MOBILE NEWS

Well, the thing is, the Droid is not getting upated. It is, however, getting the 2.1 upDate in full. I'd hardly trust a site that misspells "update" in their graphic.

For all, here are the words directly from the CEO's (SJ- Sanjay Jha) mouth from an interview with Engadget:

SJ: I showed up quite late unfortunately, but this is a channel to the market that Google -- because they have so many visitors to the website -- can provide, and in some ways think about being able to introduce some innovation faster into the market. Now, the first device is HTC's device, the Nexus One, but I think that there will be multiple devices and I think that we said "yes" today that probably this next device is our device.

CZ: Okay.

SJ: So, I see no great difference than selling it to, say, Best Buy or through Amazon on amazon.com or through carriers. It's another channel into the marketplace and the dynamics, I suspect, will be very similar of delivering these devices into the marketplace. Obviously, the experience is different to buy it on the website, but we don't know how that will play out yet. And I think probably Google will tell you that they don't know how it will play out. We're hoping that, as a result of that, we can get our innovations into the marketplace faster. That's probably the most optimistic view that one could take of what that could do. The other view is that it, you know, people that are used to buying their phones the way they do or devices the way they do, and it makes a modest amount of difference to how many devices ship through that channel. We just don't know. I mean, I'm very happy to support it and participate because it's something new in the industry, but, you know, it's not Google doing the hardware, it's that they're working with partners to deliver the hardware, and in some sense, you can look at the Droid -- that device is 2.0, and this is 2.1. The day that launches, 2.1 will be available to us and we'll upgrade the Droid to 2.1. So the software feature sets will be available completely to us.

CZ: And that speed of upgrade -- that's largely because of the fact that it's a Google Experience device, right?

SJ: No, I think that --

CZ: Not having Blur on there.

SJ: That's a very good point. The more you put beyond what Google gives you -- every time there's a new release of software, you have to update all the other software. So that is the only difference. But of course, we're very motivated -- like HTC with Sense UI, us with MOTOBLUR, and others -- to add our software to meet different needs so we can differentiate ourselves. But yeah, you're right, I think that if all we do is use Google software... well, they have made that 2.0-to-2.1 a fairly simple transition, so we could do that very quickly. But if we had MOTOBLUR on it, we'll then have to migrate MOTOBLUR to 2.1, and it'll take a little longer. But we think that overall that's the right thing to do.

CZ: Okay. Yeah, it seems like Google is moving in the direction of having a hero device for every release of Android. Droid for 2.0, Nexus One for 2.1...

SJ: Yeah, that's right. I think that's... there's a very good reason for it, which is that it's really difficult to deliver software with that level of integration. You can go back a little bit and look at what Microsoft did with their model, and I think that if you don't work very closely with hardware and software manufacturers together to deliver that experience, it's really difficult to deliver an integrated experience. And I completely understand why that makes sense. And you can't do ten devices one fine day, you gotta do one device. So I think it makes sense to me.

A quick sitdown with Motorola co-CEO Sanjay Jha -- Engadget

I tell you, half of the media and blogs that cover these stories play a very bad game of grapevine and do absolutely NO research of their own.