Motorola Droid gets Andriod 2.1 Upgrade from Verizon

By Saturday April 3, 2010

I just got the Android 2.1 upgrade from Verizon. FINALLY!

Now I’m trying to figure out what’s new about it. I do see they have the pinch multi-touch in the browser. Not sure what else is new. Post your feedback here on what you think of the upgrade.



23 Comments
  1. robarpoch says:
    4/4/2010 at 4:13 am

    Seriously?

    1) New baseband in 2.1 that is supposed to improve 3G coverage. People with sketchy coverage should be seeing fewer drops to 1X.
    2) Pinch/zoom in Browser and Gallery in addition to Maps (which was upgraded a while back).
    3) Live wallpapers (yawn)
    4) New news/weather widget
    5) Some apps now stock installed (e.g. Google Goggles) which had been in the app store for ages…

    All of this apart from the new baseband has been available on rooted Droids for ages. Even the apps had been ported over a while back. Still, if you don’t want to root, you’ve got options for a bunch of the other stuff people have complained about:

    Visual voicemail: don’t pay Verizon. Google Voice and YouMail have been superior free options for ages. Look in the app store.

    More than 3 home screens: Home++ and Helix Launcher are both excellent free options that give other functionality as well. The maker of Home++ also has a simple app that ONLY increases the number of home screens, also free.

    Enjoy. The Droid is good. When rooted, the Droid is even better.

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  2. Marc Perkel says:
    4/4/2010 at 7:37 pm

    So – how do you root the droid?

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  3. robarpoch says:
    4/5/2010 at 7:18 am

    Take a look at any Droid forum (droidforums.net, alldroid.com). Easiest way to do it is with DroidMod (google it). If you’ve already updated to 2.1 it’s harder (you have to downgrade first) and you’ll have to do some research – same forums have the required info.

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