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. Haunted Sheep says:
    4/3/2010 at 5:08 am

    I got it day before last, it seems to have added a widget/app for weather and news. Kinda cool, I think that business with our maps gettin updated a few weeks back was supposed to be part of this but was instead rolled out a la cart.

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  2. Marc Perkel says:
    4/3/2010 at 5:15 am

    I agree. In fact the maps was broken and then the next day they had another maps upgrade that fixed it.

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  3. Mac Guy says:
    4/3/2010 at 5:22 am

    Now if only the Sprint HTC Hero would get the 2.1 upgrade sometime this year…

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  4. Monte-Rio_info says:
    4/3/2010 at 5:25 am

    There are many places to find out about 2.1 – Motorola Owners’ Forum, Android and Me, Droid Life, etc. are just some of the places.

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  5. vagnerr says:
    4/3/2010 at 5:53 am

    Given I only got the 2.0.1 update for my Milestone(EU Droid) about 3-4 weeks ago I guess I’ll not be holding my breath :-)

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  6. paddler says:
    4/3/2010 at 6:44 am

    I upgraded my Droid to 2.1 but aside from live wallpaper (yawn) and pinch zoom for some things (that’s cool) what are the behind the scenes improvements? Better battery life? Anything?

    It was fun on the forums watching people froth at the mouth because this was delayed. Just wondering what we got for the wait? Seems the best things like Google earth and more screens are not available on the Droid.

    If iPhone goes to Verizon I’ll be the first customer

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  7. Personality says:
    4/3/2010 at 7:26 am

    I didn’t wait for Verizon to push it out. I got the binary from Google’s android site and updated from a zip file a few days ago. Go to the marketplace and get some live wallpapers. :)

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  8. Father says:
    4/3/2010 at 7:46 am

    Do you have visual voicemail? That is the one iphone feature I’d like to have on Android.

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  9. greensaab says:
    4/3/2010 at 8:51 am

    How did you know you have the upgrade? I don’t see it on my droid yet.

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  10. Tom says:
    4/3/2010 at 9:21 am

    I didn’t feel like waiting, I got the official update.zip too.

    yes Droid has visual voicemail verizon charges 3 bucks a month for it

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  11. audion says:
    4/3/2010 at 9:42 am

    Am sorely missing the promised five home screens.

    It feels faster, however, the icons from my home screens have disappeared a couple of time necessistating reboots.

    Annoying crashes while downloading podcasts to the sd card are gone!

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  12. Beamish says:
    4/3/2010 at 9:42 am

    2.1 is also supposed to add native Yahoo Mail support.

    As for visual voice mail…skip it. Verizon charges for it and their servers are SO BAD it can take minutes for the notification to appear – and it locks the phone up while it does it.

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  13. li says:
    4/3/2010 at 9:47 am

    The update does seem to be much faster overall, which is nice. You can do voice to text in any text box which is very very useful. However the lack of the promised 5 home screens a bit of a disappointment
    I hope they put that out a bit later.

    Oh and we have had visual voicemail for quite awhile.

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  14. qb says:
    4/3/2010 at 10:37 am

    I really like my Droid and Nexus (I have lots of toys for my job). Actually I really like the Nexus and Droid is OK.

    The one big weakness with Android ecosystem is the fracturing between frequent releases by Google, the handset providers, and the telcos. They all have their fingers in the pot with customization, updates, app stores, etc. It’s a pain in the butt.

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  15. mcosmi says:
    4/3/2010 at 11:07 am

    Nexus One FTW!

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  16. Adam_W says:
    4/3/2010 at 11:46 am

    I’m not sure if it’s intentional, but the GPS for my Droid seems to be more response since the 2.1 update. Prior to the update, sometimes it would take forever to work, or sometimes not at all.

    I don’t need anything new. Just updates to make my phone faster and more reliable.

    Well, it would be nice if they could work on the camera next. Too slow.

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  17. polybot says:
    4/3/2010 at 2:10 pm

    Now slightly less much worse than an iPhone.

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  18. sargasso says:
    4/3/2010 at 3:08 pm

    I’m suffering from Android envy on iPad day.

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  19. Mick Hamblen says:
    4/3/2010 at 6:01 pm

    Really Marc Perkel, do you have a spell checker?

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  20. WmDE says:
    4/3/2010 at 7:59 pm

    I bought a Palm Pre Plus yesterday. $54 (upgrade) for the phone. $30 a month for 3G with wifi hotspot capability for 5 devices at no extra cost.

    Works with Gmail and Google Calendar. Not totally inconvenient with Google Voice.

    GPS not too bad, placed me in the dining room when I was clearly in the living room. No turn by turn.

    Woke up this morning to find the email indicator flashing. Checked mail and found that Apple had released something called a wifi iPad. Sounds like a great accessory for the Pre.

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