Android 2.1 for the Droid is making its way through the Verizon test gauntlet, and apparently inside is multitouch for the browser (like Maps 3.4), Google Goggles, and fancy news and weather widgets. Not coming over from the Nexus One?
Live backgrounds – those swishy animated wallpapers – and that new 3D grid of app icons aren’t part of the package. Instead, the same static backgrounds and the classic Android pop-up app shelf stick around.
Hate to say it, but this feels like even more Android fragmentation. Is anything – even the damn OS – ever gonna be the same between two phones again? Jeez. [Engadget]
matt
Tuesday, February 9, 2010 at 10:07 AMseems to have turned into the linux of mobiles.
Jamie Carl
Tuesday, February 9, 2010 at 1:57 PMThis isn’t necessarily a bad thing. I have a Nexus One and don’t use the live backgrounds because with them off, my battery will last a full day (and then some) but with them on, I’m looking at about 4-7 hours.
Ted Pavlic
Tuesday, February 9, 2010 at 11:21 PMMaybe that’s just what we (DROID users) get for buying a phone with such a wimpy processor. Motorola is too afraid that Live backgrounds will render their phones inoperable. Swipes will be serviced a few seconds after they’re actually registered on the screen. (this is the reason why things like Adobe Flash and multitasking are still not available in the iPhone’s Safari — it’s a frustrating quality control issue)