Comments on: Moto Droid’s 2.1 Update Coming Soon

By: eddie

eddie — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 16:02:53 +0000

The last update for moto cliq helped out, better battery life, sreens slide smoother, but I would like to see flash player and java on my cliq other wise iphone still has something better than we do. Believe me I really enjoy my CLIQ BUT I NEED MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE IS A FLASH PLAYER!

By: bsems

bsems — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:53:07 +0000

The update will be automatically sent to your phone. a pop up will say something like “update for 2.1″ u must have more than 30%battery i believe.

You dont have to do anything extra. Just sit back and wait. If you want to check yourself. go to settings-about phone-system updates. That wont trigger your update, that just shows your current system software.

the update will be sent in waves of 250k phones.. which means once the first droid gets the update, you will recieve it in no longer than 4 days.

By: Tom

Tom — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 23:56:22 +0000

what is a rooted Droid? What is a teather plan? Will the Droid 2.1 be a world phonewhat is a bricked droid? I currently have 8830 BB world phone.

By: leo

leo — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 21:46:18 +0000

as long as droid gets adobe flash player, i can forgive them on the live wallpaper and 3d app drawer. multi touch web browser is good and multi touch image gallery is good.

By: ben

ben — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 12:22:33 +0000

and how will u know when its out will they send a email to your phone

By: ben

ben — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 12:20:40 +0000

when is it comin out?

By: Casey

Casey — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 01:26:01 +0000

Root you droid and have almost everything now. Everyone I know with the droid (including myself) has done it and I’ve yet to know anyone who bricked their phone. You then can have all of the feature that won’t be included with the update to 2.1 as well.

By: devin

devin — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:39:46 +0000

And also a different style music navigation

By: devin

devin — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:38:25 +0000

This update is also going to have the 3d gallery and media and its going to have speech to text for anywhere the virtual keyboard comes up you just swipe your finger across the blank spot and it will come up

By: Data10

Data10 — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 18:42:05 +0000

I know it’s not actually 2.1, but here is a link on how to install several of the app’s from the 2.1 release on your droid.

http://androidhd.blogspot.com/search/label/Android%202.1

I installed all of them and then choose to have my phone boot up into the Launcher by default (versus home or GDE) and now I get the 3D app drawer, multi touch maps, desktop screen thumbnails, 5 desktops and the best is the new image gallery.

Watch the video, it shows exactly what you’ll get and you can make the call if you think it’s worth it or not.

The only thing I wish they would address is the email client, not being able to open HTML emails or forward emails with attachments is simply a not acceptable for a released product in this day and age.

By: Rafael

Rafael — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 05:06:17 +0000

So far the Moto Droid has been the best phone I’ve owned and I’ve owned almost every smartphone from every carrier. Still, as this upcoming update shows, you can’t get everything you want. Flash would have been nice. C’mon, the year is 2010.
Hey, did you know you could have upto 11 screens on the Droid NOW? Just go to the marketplace and download PandaHome. This app lets you do a whole lot of cool stuff and the themes are phenomenal. AND you can add 6 dockbars for quick access to any app from any screen!

By: kenneth

kenneth — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 01:15:50 +0000

now for those of you that want speech to text theres “handcent sms” (free) on the market and it can do so much more than the stock sms on the droid. for more than 3 screens theres “panda home” with up to 11 and “open home lite” with up to 7 both are free but a lil glitchy but paid version of open home should be a bit better but havent invested into it. make sure you always check out the comments on the apps you want to install though cause some can crash the phone ive had to replace mine already cause of some “nifty” apps that are very unstable

By: eric

eric — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 04:40:34 +0000

what about the exchange sync issues, will that be fixed?

By: Sue

Sue — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:06:16 +0000

I am running 2.0.1 on my Droid and downloaded the Launcher2 app (2.1 Home w the new Gallery, the new music app, & the Genie news & weather widget from one of the forums a while back.

By: David

David — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:34:27 +0000

What about memory storage for apps? One of the drawbacks of the current build is that apps are stored on the limited 1G memory chip, not the 16G card – and there is no way to change that. Really slows down the Droid the way it is configured now.