{"id":294342,"date":"2010-02-08T15:00:51","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T20:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mobilecrunch.com\/?p=25932"},"modified":"2010-02-08T15:00:51","modified_gmt":"2010-02-08T20:00:51","slug":"motorola-droid-to-be-blessed-with-android-2-1-in-coming-update-updated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/294342","title":{"rendered":"Motorola DROID to be blessed with Android 2.1 in coming update [UPDATED]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23771 alignright\" title=\"Motorola DROID\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mobilecrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/vzwdroid.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"199\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When the Nexus One was announced, many folks were questioning Google&#8217;s game plan and why it would release such an amazing device shortly after the Motorola DROID&#8217;s release. If that wasn&#8217;t enough to make some DROID owners envious, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobilecrunch.com\/2010\/02\/02\/google-nexus-one-gets-ota-update-multi-touch-goodness\/\">Nexus One received a multitouch update last week<\/a> which allowed pinch-to-zoom gestures within Google Maps, the Android browser and photo gallery. What could possibly quell all this Nexus One envy?<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-25932\"><\/span>If getting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobilecrunch.com\/2010\/02\/05\/motorola-droid-gets-multitouch-but-only-in-google-maps-for-now\/\">multitouch for Google Maps wasn&#8217;t enough for DROID<\/a> owners last week, they&#8217;ll be thrilled to know that their handsets are going to be graced with Android 2.1 in the future. Best of all, it&#8217;s coming with all the bells and whistles that can currently be found only on the Nexus One. Here is a run-down of what&#8217;s included according to Engadget:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It&#8217;s based on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/tag\/Android21\/\">Android  2.1<\/a>. The build currently being circulated is identified as 2.1  version 1, mirroring the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2010\/02\/02\/nexus-one-gets-a-software-update-enables-multitouch\/\">update  just pushed to the Nexus One last week<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/tag\/GoogleGoggles\/\">Google  Goggles<\/a> is now pre-installed (no matter how unhelpful it may be).<\/li>\n<li>The browser&#8217;s now multitouch enabled, just like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2010\/02\/05\/motorola-droid-gets-official-multitouch-support-in-google-map\/\">Google  Maps 3.4<\/a>. Huzzah! No Flash, but then again, we weren&#8217;t really  expecting that.<\/li>\n<li>Interestingly, the home screen&#8217;s still got the same look as  2.0.1, meaning it doesn&#8217;t adopt the Nexus One&#8217;s rotating 3D grid of app  icons &#8212; it&#8217;s still got the pull-up drawer tab at the bottom.<\/li>\n<li>No active wallpapers. Bummer!<\/li>\n<li>The news and weather widgets introduced on the Nexus One <em>are<\/em> included. Maybe certain capabilities of 2.1 are going to be restricted  to devices with minimum performance benchmarks?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sadly, you&#8217;ll have to exercise some patience because there is no time frame for this update&#8217;s release. In the meantime, don&#8217;t look at your DROID with disdain and resentment. Instead, appreciate it and constantly remind yourself that when the Android 2.1 update comes out, you can one-up the Nexus One by saying, &#8220;Well, at least mine has a physical keyboard.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2010\/02\/08\/motorola-droids-next-update-to-be-android-2-1-includes-multito\/\">Engadget<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><i>Update: Motorola announced on its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/motorola?v=feed&#038;story_fbid=294428153158&#038;ref=mf\">Facebook page<\/a> that the Android 2.1 update will begin rolling out this week! 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If that wasn&#8217;t enough to make some DROID owners envious, the Nexus One received a multitouch update last week which allowed pinch-to-zoom gestures within Google Maps, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5024,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5024"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}