still no motorola droid 2.1 update
Friday, February 12, 2010
today marks the first day of the end of the week, the same end of the week we were expecting updates of android 2.1 to be rolling out to our motorola droid devices. where are we with that? still stuck in limbo. still stuck with questions and no answers. still stuck with many frustrations.
here is what we do know...
- after a botched january 24th date from verizon, we could only speculate on our next ota update.
- then surprisingly on february 8th, we received notice from the "official" motorola facebook page that the 2.1 update would roll out to our phones sometime "this week."
- rumors started to fly that wednesday, february 10th would be day 1 of rollout.
- on wednesday the 8th, our dreams were in sight as the release notes for android 2.1 surfaced on the motorola website.
- 2 hours and 100 blogs posting the link later, the notes were gone and the world turned upside down.
- there were phones calls to motorola which received answers of "it should be rolling out anytime" to "we have no timeframe" to "no it's not coming."
- live chat conversations with moto reps who gave us mixed news.
- the official motorola twitter account has now gone silent. their facebook page has been filled with hatred and silence. now all we have is http://www.motorola.com/mydroid as a source for updates.
- from an email response via their support department that i received this morning i can tell you that we are stuck in the same place as yesterday...with no answers.
on a side note, to those of you spreading hatred like your life depends on a system update to your cell phone of all things is pretty disgusting to see. in no way does this impact your life other than something as simplistic as the opportunity to tell your friends your phone is better than theirs. i know we have egos, and i know we were led to believe one thing, but why the hate? this is still a leading piece of technology and in time we will have an update that is hopefully far more polished than anything we could have expected. everyone just relax. your frustrations are understood, but please, lets all take a deep breath and leave the puerile venting to ourselves.
sorry to go all deep on a friday, just needed a release. as we have any other relevant info, we'll be sure to have it for you.
10 comments
Kellex, this is why I love your website. You provide the most up to date news. Also you are able to admonish motorola and the droid fiends (the few that are getting out of control) without being disrespectful. I will continue to follow you and your wonderful site.
ReplyDeleteThanks kellex for keeping us all updated. I've been refreshing this page every hour or so from the moment I wake up to the moment I go to sleep. I'm a DROID user and I have a lot of friends that are iPhone lovers and yes, an update will give me another chance to say how awesome my phone is, but I don't get frustrated and start placing blame on whoever. It's definitely exciting to see an update coming and it may be frustrating to get mixed signals from Moto, but I agree with your second to last paragraph. CALM DOWN PEOPLE.
ReplyDeleteI just hope 2.1 will make everything smoother and a little snappier. Most of the other supposed included features seem to be eye candy.
Cheers guys. All will be well! Maybe they'll sneak one on us this weekend.
ReplyDeleteIn the mean time, watch the Olympics! Well, only if it starts snowing up there in the next hour.
Thanks for that second-to-last paragraph. It is amazing to see people blowing up on message boards that they can't wait to return their phone or are jumping to a Nexus One as soon as it hits Verizon just because they haven't gotten an update yet (which, to the best of my knowledge, has never had a firm release date other than "later this week"). It's a friggin' cell phone everyone! And, if it never changes, it is still a pretty damn cool phone!
ReplyDeleteNow a verizon memo has been sent to employees telling about the release of 2.1. It gives no timeframe other than soon but I have heard such things come just days before a release. I think this weekend is our weekend.
ReplyDeleteYeah I would guess this means it's coming within the next day or so. Verizon employees aren't notified of anything until the last minute as far as I know.
ReplyDeleteThis site is simply the best for Droid news. The best.
ReplyDeleteI really like your writing style and articles as well. You're the first blog type site other than engadget and gizmodo that I have actually placed as an RSS feed on my homepage. Nice work, Kellex. Please always keep this site going strong no matter where your career takes you. Your brief updates, news, and links with respect to our droids mean a lot as seen in these comments.
ReplyDeleteDon't people realize that most social networking pages - like the Motorola facebook page - are run by marketing drones. Many of whom are on the bottom part of the ladder because big companies still don't put enough stock in social networking. Most likely someone who is trying to make a name for him/her self got a little carried away and jumped the gun and now everyone is taking that as gospel. While I am anxiously awaiting the features in 2.1, I love my Droid the way it is now. It's not like the features were needed to "fix" a whole lot (cough, cough, iphone MMS, cough)
ReplyDeleteCoffee and Anon: Greatly appreciated. Glad to have you as readers as well.
ReplyDeleteRon: Are you stereotyping entry level marketing folk? Bad Ron! :)