Motorola Droid getting Android 2.1 update with multitouch

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010 In Blog / No Comments

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Motorola announced on its official Facebook page that all of those frustrated Droid users can rest assured that help is on the way and will be here sometime this week. The post says that it’s “happy to relay the 2.1 upgrade to Droid will start to roll out this week”.

The upgrade will means that Motorola Droid is going to get the new update as pushed to Nexus One last week. Google goggles will be pre-installed, as well as other news and weather widgets that available on Nexus One.  The browser will now be multitouch enabled, just like Google Maps 3.4. However, the home screen still look the same, not adopting the Nexus One’s rotating 3D grid of app icons.

Motorola Droid

Sources:

http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/motorola-says-android-update-2-1-coming-to-droid-soon/

http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/motorola-droid-update-to-android-2-1-will-start-to-roll-out-th/?s=t5

http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/motorola-droids-next-update-to-be-android-2-1-includes-multito/