Motorola Droid Goes Android 2.1 This Week (PC World)

The Motorola Droid module be upgraded to the Google Android 2.1 code this week, the consort declared on its authorised Facebook page. The over-the-air code update module alter the Droid code on the par with the Google Nexus One, albeit with whatever features missing.

"We're bright to passage the 2.1 raise to Droid module move to listing discover this week, and we module hit more aggregation to deal on another figure upgrades later," Motorola excited on its Facebook tender – without mentioning which features the Droid module get, or which another of its devices module be upgraded.

Despite whatever info on features, Engadget quotes "trusted sources" locution the 2.1 code update for the Droid module alter multitouch capabilities to the built-in application and for Google Maps 3.4, Google Googles seeable search, and the programme and defy widgets as seen on the Nexus One. Yet the similarities with the Nexus One modify here.

Some seeable aspects introduced with Android 2.1 on the Nexus One won't attain it onto the Motorola Droid though. These allow the newborn bag concealment with astir wallpapers and the newborn 3D app icons grid, instead of the pull-up artist journalism Android users got habitual to by now.

Multitouch is belike the most expected feature to presently petition the Motorola Droid. The Nexus One conventional terminal hebdomad a code update that additional pinch-to-zoom functionality to the phone's have browser, picture room and Google Maps. Android has been previously criticised for the demand of multitouch hold and hackers modify went on a crusade to enable the feature.

While we patiently move for the Android 2.1 code update for the Motorola Droid, it is ease uncharted when another of the company's Android devices (Cliq) module intend up to pace with the stylish release. HTC Android phones, (G1, MyTouch 3G, Hero) are ease awaiting the 2.X upgrade, though whatever of these devices could be mitt behindhand cod to element differences.

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