Several developments over the last week have come about. HTC and Motorola are starting to roll out Android 2.2 (Froyo) to some of their devices and they have both announced future plans as well as Samsung giving us some official news about its 2.2 plans.
Samsung’s Galaxy S series of phones should be seeing its Froyo update in September, The UK Samsung twitter account was responsible for the announcement which could mean only the international version, however with the recent open sourcing of US versions and the hardware & software similarity I would expect the it to be close if not the same time.
Unlocked European HTC Desire owners should have started to get updates this past weekend and will continue throughout the week, Along with Froyo there is 720p Video recording, HTC’s App Share widget and iTunes sync via HTC Sync. Carrier specific versions should roll out in the coming weeks.
HTC’s EVO 4G starts to roll Tuesday August 3rd Officially though there are reports that users started getting it over the weekend.
Verizon and Motorola Officially announced on Friday that the original Droid would start to see its OTA update on Monday August 2nd. This announcement was late in the game on Friday many think it was in reaction to HTC and Sprint announcing plans to release the EVO 4G Froyo update as noted above.
Motorola also leaked that the Droid X will get its Froyo update in “Late Summer” though there are no specifics and it wasn’t really an announcement since they just added it to the list in the link.
XDA member scuccia has a Stock Android 2.2 ROM based off of the upcoming OTA the only additions made to the ROM are su, SuperUser.apk and busybox. This is great news for Droid Incredible owners, It requires a full wipe and 2.x Radio scuccia advises NOT to apply the radio update twice as it will brick your phone so users be forewarded! Continue reading “Droid Incredible Leaked Stock/Sense 2.2 ROM at XDA” »
Laptopmag.com has a great walk-through thats pretty easy to follow for users wanting to root their HTC Droid Incredible and install Android 2.2 (Froyo) The of course throw in the obligatory if you fry your gear don’t blame us statement but otherwise its well laid out with plenty of pics and instructions. Are you a brave soul? Give it a try and let us know how your Incredible like screaming along at Froyo speeds.
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HTC’s Droid Incredible has creeped into the spotlight over its younger brother from another mother (Motorola’s Droid X) with news beginning on Friday that an OTA update was finally starting to roll out and again today with BGR reporting that they received a tip containing a forwarded HTC email regarding the update and it being repackaged to include Froyo. A full list of the purported features follows.
We just received a juicy tip about the HTC DROID Incredible software update schedule that we’d like to share. One of our strategically placed Ninjas was kind enough to pass along an email from HTC that read as follows:
I wanted to pass along that the upcoming Incredible MR will also include Froyo (originally it was going to be two separate MRs).
We are targeting the end of the month/first part of August. As a reminder, below are the highlights:
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Ok so I took the Galaxy S phones to the park yesterday and did a quick video shoot to show you the differences between them and the Droid. Note Samsung has added an option called “Outdoor Visibility” to the camera settings, I chose to test it with the videos so I have 3 Videos one from the Droid, One from a Galaxy S with the “Outdoor Visibility” setting enabled and one with it disabled… I also too several still shots from the Droid, Galaxy S and my Nikon D40 DSLR. I tried to replicate the shots as best I could with all 3 devices. I also have some shots of the Galaxy S Screen in daylight compared to the Droid so that you may see how it looks outdoors in the sun though I will say it was mostly overcast not super sunny yesterday, Which is good for me I would have lost 20lbs!
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