Android 2.1 Screenshots Leak, HTC Sense On Board
| by Rob Jackson on November 30th, 2009 |
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The Motorola Droid/Milestone is the only Android Phone currently running Android 2.0. We hear that HTC is hard at work preparing an update for their line of handsets that will catapult their Android Phones passed Android 1.6 and right back up to date with Android 2.0. But after the following screenshots of a supposed “Android 2.1″ leaked on BeGeek.fr, people are wondering if HTC is moving all the way to Flan in one single bound:
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t see anything “new” in these screenshots. It simply shows HTC Sense and one of the screenshots shows Hardware Model HTC Hero with Firmware version 2.1. Now I could be wrong… but I’m pretty sure this could be easily spoofed by someone who cooked up their own custom ROM.
Or maybe this is for the launch of the Predator/Passion/Dragon? Hmmmm… what ever happened to that thing anyways?
[Thanks to all who sent this in!]
1. Furret wrote on November 30, 2009
It seems, that for the first time, Sense home screen flips into landscape, when the phone is turned.
2. KBlack wrote on November 30, 2009
Notice the wacky lower left icon on the landscape pic. Photoshop fail or work in progress?
3. Breon wrote on November 30, 2009
The Settings screenshot is very 2.x. It has an Accounts option like on the Droid. Also, they have an HTCized version of the Power Control widget…which I suppose anyone can develop.
4. FPCreator2000 wrote on November 30, 2009
Droid users are suppose to receive an update sometime in December and in January, at least for Android 2.0, according to a previous news posting on the site so let keep our fingers crossed for all Android users.
5. Terran wrote on November 30, 2009
http://phandroid.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/android21-4.png I think that landscape picture is a fake. look at the bottom part with the app drawer, phone button, and widget adder. The sizes are all completely wrong, plus the bar to tell you which homescreen your on is completely missing
6. G8D wrote on November 30, 2009
Looks like all that’s left is fixing landscape mode.
Everything else looks good.
Assuming it’s real.
7. @jsnyng wrote on November 30, 2009
Supposedly there is a “leaked” version of the HTC Hero 2.1 ROM that has been acquired by several devs/modders in the XDA community. If you check my Android Twitter list, http://twitter.com/jsnyng/lists/android, you will see quite a bit of chatter going back and forth from guys who are already claiming to have it ported to the G1/MyTouch 3G with still a few bugs to work out. I believe the screenshots above are real and not Photoshopped.
8. Z-liberator wrote on November 30, 2009
THis is great! Give me, Gimmee, Gimmee. Never been so excited about an update Hero is truly the best phone ever made and its getting better!
9. Zaggs wrote on November 30, 2009
Awesome, now HTC just needs to put everything on something a little more powerful then a Hero or Eris.
10. andrea wrote on November 30, 2009
ive been to the verizon store and tried out the motorola droid. i hate the physical keyboard. i cant type on it. i was gonna get the htc eris but liked the power and speed of the droid. i wish the droid and eris would get busy and have a baby. droid + eris = passion/dragon…possibly
11. MarvinAndroid wrote on November 30, 2009
@Andrea – you could just buy the Droid and never use the physical keyboard. It has a very functional onscreen keyboard in both normal and portrait modes.
12. JAguirre1231 wrote on November 30, 2009
No this is very real, as I have a dump of it. However it is just a very early build so there are some bugs.
13. john wrote on November 30, 2009
If this is even real, it may be first released with a phone with a physical keyboard.
14. troy wrote on November 30, 2009
Next gen HTC needs to debut soon to squash that ugly ass Moto that the press has catapulted into being “all the rave” but in fact is no better than the Hero/Eris.
15. lester wrote on November 30, 2009
It’s obviously a fake. How would landscape mode switching on my home screen know how to fit my widgets? Or did they add a horadric cube with the update?
16. Jason D. wrote on November 30, 2009
I hate all the talk about the “huge” screen on the Droid. its skinnier and a little taller than a storm.
17. BruteForce wrote on December 1, 2009
Landscape home screen has been working on my ADP since I got it. I just have to pop out my keyboard for it to appear. And so far, all widgets have worked in landscape mode.
Now, I dont have sense on it, but the widgets are not an issue.
18. caspar wrote on December 1, 2009
Aaagh!
I am still stuck on Android 1.5 with my Samsung Galaxy.
Please expose this farce. It could be a real problem for future Android users: what is the incentive for a manufacturer to update the firmware if they have already sold the hardware?
19. Black Kristos wrote on December 1, 2009
@Lester: “horadric cube” Best comment all week. Thanks for the laugh.
20. mR.KEnNY wrote on December 1, 2009
Check it out ^^?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=592596
21. Macj wrote on December 1, 2009
That should be ‘past 1.6′ not ‘passed 1.6″
Where did you go to school, University of the Ghetto?
22. Wilco wrote on December 1, 2009
Give me multitouch and apps to SD, and everything else is nice to have. With the Google Nav coming to my G1, I’m really happy with the overall phone; except memory and multitouch. Moving apps to SD should help with memory, and multitouch would increase the usability of the phone tremendously.
23. brehtt wrote on December 1, 2009
I predict the 2.0 release for the Hero and other devices will happen right around May 9, 2010. According to a Verizon rep, they got a 6 month exclusivity deal for the Droid. But does that apply to 2.1? Who knows…
24. jae wrote on December 1, 2009
@ terran ,.,,. I have running on my g1 and no that pictures
is not fake ,.,.,fyi you can’t go up or down
you go side to side,.,.,.is freaking koo (^ _ ^)
25. JohnPaul wrote on December 2, 2009
@Brehtt
I think it would be a mistake to wait until May, I myself am waiting on the Sense update to 2.0 before getting an Eris. Personally I am hoping for a January release. Any longer and you start to wonder what HTC was thinking when they rewrote Android for the Sense UI.
26. Corey wrote on March 4, 2010
http://thekrtek.net/
leaked and working… Awesome