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in sprints case they have to make sure their 'wares work properly with the new updates, therefore...]]>Dec 7th 2009 3:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/motorola-droid-getting-2-0-1-now-verizon-posts-details/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/motorola-droid-getting-2-0-1-now-verizon-posts-details/Dec 7th 2009 3:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/motorola-droid-getting-2-0-1-now-verizon-posts-details/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/motorola-droid-getting-2-0-1-now-verizon-posts-details/
Because they have to make sure the updates are compatible with their carrier installed software. I could care less if they make it compatible with their software and just get the updates out but that's just how it is.]]>Dec 7th 2009 3:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/motorola-droid-getting-2-0-1-now-verizon-posts-details/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/motorola-droid-getting-2-0-1-now-verizon-posts-details/Dec 7th 2009 3:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/motorola-droid-getting-2-0-1-now-verizon-posts-details/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/motorola-droid-getting-2-0-1-now-verizon-posts-details/
haha so the consensus is that it's Verizon's network and they decide what goes on it? that's still dumb I wish they didn't need to go through Verizon because we'd probably get updates faster ]]>Dec 7th 2009 4:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/motorola-droid-getting-2-0-1-now-verizon-posts-details/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/motorola-droid-getting-2-0-1-now-verizon-posts-details/Same situation BlackBerry users have been dealing with for years, so suck it up cause a point release isn't worth getting your panties in a bunch anyway. Meanwhile, I'll go back to Crackberry and continue to bitch about Verizon dragging their feet for the last 2 months with 5.0 on my Tour. :\]]>Dec 7th 2009 4:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/motorola-droid-getting-2-0-1-now-verizon-posts-details/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/motorola-droid-getting-2-0-1-now-verizon-posts-details/Dec 7th 2009 5:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/motorola-droid-getting-2-0-1-now-verizon-posts-details/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/motorola-droid-getting-2-0-1-now-verizon-posts-details/
You can 100% claim that an update won't hurt the network? Than you don't work in the cellular industry. There are literally hundreds of ways an update can screw up a network if there is a mistake.

Oh, and Google didn't do this update. Motorola did, why do people think Google writes all the software?]]>Dec 7th 2009 5:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/motorola-droid-getting-2-0-1-now-verizon-posts-details/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/motorola-droid-getting-2-0-1-now-verizon-posts-details/
Because the iPhone is an excusive. They work with AT&T ahead of time.]]>Dec 7th 2009 6:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/motorola-droid-getting-2-0-1-now-verizon-posts-details/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/motorola-droid-getting-2-0-1-now-verizon-posts-details/
Because Apple is the most specialest manufacturer in the world and has all of the iPhone's carriers by the balls]]>Dec 7th 2009 6:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/motorola-droid-getting-2-0-1-now-verizon-posts-details/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/motorola-droid-getting-2-0-1-now-verizon-posts-details/Dec 7th 2009 8:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/motorola-droid-getting-2-0-1-now-verizon-posts-details/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/motorola-droid-getting-2-0-1-now-verizon-posts-details/Dec 8th 2009 12:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/motorola-droid-getting-2-0-1-now-verizon-posts-details/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/motorola-droid-getting-2-0-1-now-verizon-posts-details/Dec 8th 2009 12:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/motorola-droid-getting-2-0-1-now-verizon-posts-details/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/motorola-droid-getting-2-0-1-now-verizon-posts-details/
It's certainly highly unlikely that a given firmware update will harm the network, but it's not impossible.

For the CDMA-based technologies in particular, the network and handset exchange power control messages and adjust transmit power accordingly. The network won't waste a huge amount of transmit power on a handset that is getting a really strong signal. This is what allows CDMA to pack more users onto a tower at the same time than a simple time-division scheme (like GSM). This is why CDMA cells "breathe", which means the serviceable area is affected by the number and proximity of handsets talking to the tower at a given point in time.

If you have a rogue handset that is not complying with the power control protocol, then it can hog network resources, and negatively affect service for other users. As I said before, it's highly unlikely that a given firmware update will affect compliance with the power control protocol. That sort of thing is tested very early in development, and doesn't change much.

I think the real reason is that the support burden falls onto Verizon, plus a tendency towards controlling everything.]]>Dec 14th 2009 12:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/motorola-droid-getting-2-0-1-now-verizon-posts-details/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/motorola-droid-getting-2-0-1-now-verizon-posts-details/.>]]>Dec 7th 2009 3:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/motorola-droid-getting-2-0-1-now-verizon-posts-details/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/motorola-droid-getting-2-0-1-now-verizon-posts-details/
To update or to not do that which I just stated I could do...Therein lies my predicament.]]>Dec 7th 2009 3:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/motorola-droid-getting-2-0-1-now-verizon-posts-details/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/motorola-droid-getting-2-0-1-now-verizon-posts-details/Dec 7th 2009 3:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/motorola-droid-getting-2-0-1-now-verizon-posts-details/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/motorola-droid-getting-2-0-1-now-verizon-posts-details/Dec 7th 2009 3:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/motorola-droid-getting-2-0-1-now-verizon-posts-details/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/motorola-droid-getting-2-0-1-now-verizon-posts-details/Dec 7th 2009 3:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/motorola-droid-getting-2-0-1-now-verizon-posts-details/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/motorola-droid-getting-2-0-1-now-verizon-posts-details/Dec 7th 2009 3:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/motorola-droid-getting-2-0-1-now-verizon-posts-details/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/motorola-droid-getting-2-0-1-now-verizon-posts-details/Dec 7th 2009 4:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/motorola-droid-getting-2-0-1-now-verizon-posts-details/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/motorola-droid-getting-2-0-1-now-verizon-posts-details/Dec 7th 2009 4:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/motorola-droid-getting-2-0-1-now-verizon-posts-details/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/motorola-droid-getting-2-0-1-now-verizon-posts-details/Dec 7th 2009 3:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/motorola-droid-getting-2-0-1-now-verizon-posts-details/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/motorola-droid-getting-2-0-1-now-verizon-posts-details/Dec 7th 2009 4:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/motorola-droid-getting-2-0-1-now-verizon-posts-details/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/motorola-droid-getting-2-0-1-now-verizon-posts-details/
Speaking of updates – will you FINALLY sort that freakin' skript out? I still get that darn error and Camino was updated about two days ago.]]>Dec 7th 2009 3:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/motorola-droid-getting-2-0-1-now-verizon-posts-details/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/motorola-droid-getting-2-0-1-now-verizon-posts-details/http://support.vzw.com/how_to_use/droid_upgrade.html As far as I can tell, no way to get the update until the powers that be deem your phone worthy of having the update pushed...]]>Dec 7th 2009 3:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/motorola-droid-getting-2-0-1-now-verizon-posts-details/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/motorola-droid-getting-2-0-1-now-verizon-posts-details/Dec 7th 2009 4:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/motorola-droid-getting-2-0-1-now-verizon-posts-details/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/motorola-droid-getting-2-0-1-now-verizon-posts-details/
You did try the phone before you bought it, right?]]>Dec 7th 2009 4:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/motorola-droid-getting-2-0-1-now-verizon-posts-details/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/motorola-droid-getting-2-0-1-now-verizon-posts-details/Yeah...
Once rooted, apps -> SD card, until then there's a physical limit...Not exactly able to fix that through a software update.
Yes there is. Get Dolphin browser/Picsay and quit your whining -- who cares?
It's a phone. Buy a camera.
Most do. Get used to it =/
All on-screen keyboards suck.
ur doin it rong
See: every other carrier]]>Dec 7th 2009 4:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/motorola-droid-getting-2-0-1-now-verizon-posts-details/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/motorola-droid-getting-2-0-1-now-verizon-posts-details/Dec 7th 2009 4:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/motorola-droid-getting-2-0-1-now-verizon-posts-details/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/motorola-droid-getting-2-0-1-now-verizon-posts-details/It's fast.
Thats much for a Smartphone.
Wrong. Check out Dolphin Browser from the Market.
Can't check that.
Your opinion
Download Better Keyboard from the Market
Syncing is great, much better then on the iDont
Download Mixzing from the Market
Thats right.
]]>Dec 7th 2009 4:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/motorola-droid-getting-2-0-1-now-verizon-posts-details/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/motorola-droid-getting-2-0-1-now-verizon-posts-details/Dec 7th 2009 4:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/motorola-droid-getting-2-0-1-now-verizon-posts-details/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/motorola-droid-getting-2-0-1-now-verizon-posts-details/dang it!!! why is there not a manual option to update?]]>Dec 7th 2009 4:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/motorola-droid-getting-2-0-1-now-verizon-posts-details/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/motorola-droid-getting-2-0-1-now-verizon-posts-details/Dec 7th 2009 4:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/motorola-droid-getting-2-0-1-now-verizon-posts-details/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/motorola-droid-getting-2-0-1-now-verizon-posts-details/
Maybe they just like the graphic.]]>Dec 7th 2009 4:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/motorola-droid-getting-2-0-1-now-verizon-posts-details/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/motorola-droid-getting-2-0-1-now-verizon-posts-details/
All you have to do is root it to use more than 256MB of ram? ahahahhahaha. So many things wrong with that statement.

Poor things. You bought in to Verizon and Motorola's commercials designed for teenage boys.]]>Dec 7th 2009 4:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/motorola-droid-getting-2-0-1-now-verizon-posts-details/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/motorola-droid-getting-2-0-1-now-verizon-posts-details/
Ah, there the iPhone rears its shiny Jobsian head. iDarwin: go soak yourself.

Or better yet, you can devote yourself to using that new AT&T app where you flag all of those voice/3G dead spots that make your iPhone web browsing "slow as hell."]]>Dec 7th 2009 4:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/motorola-droid-getting-2-0-1-now-verizon-posts-details/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/motorola-droid-getting-2-0-1-now-verizon-posts-details/
Thanks for playing. Now move.]]>Dec 7th 2009 5:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/motorola-droid-getting-2-0-1-now-verizon-posts-details/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/motorola-droid-getting-2-0-1-now-verizon-posts-details/Dec 7th 2009 4:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/motorola-droid-getting-2-0-1-now-verizon-posts-details/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/motorola-droid-getting-2-0-1-now-verizon-posts-details/
I haven't had a chance to play with it much, but the camera did feel like it's faster.]]>Dec 7th 2009 4:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/motorola-droid-getting-2-0-1-now-verizon-posts-details/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/motorola-droid-getting-2-0-1-now-verizon-posts-details/
Does Apple still pay you for comments that get downrated into oblivion?]]>Dec 7th 2009 4:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/motorola-droid-getting-2-0-1-now-verizon-posts-details/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/motorola-droid-getting-2-0-1-now-verizon-posts-details/Dec 7th 2009 4:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/motorola-droid-getting-2-0-1-now-verizon-posts-details/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/motorola-droid-getting-2-0-1-now-verizon-posts-details/xx OS stability is improved.
xx Battery life is improved.
xx Camera auto focus functionality is improved, and time between
shots is reduced.
xx Enhancements for three-way calling.
xx Audio for incoming calls is improved.
xx When receiving a call on call waiting, the speakerphone now
remains on.
xx Bluetooth® functionality is improved; background echo is eliminated.
xx Improved Bluetooth phone book transfer of contacts to in-vehicle
Bluetooth solutions.
xx After closing a GPS application, the GPS icon will now automatically
be removed from the notification panel.
xx Users can now receive SMS and MMS messages after an EMS
message is received.
xx SMS and MMS may now be sent to seven-digit addresses.
xx Google® contact merging has been updated to accommodate
seven-digit numbers.
xx Visual Voice Mail notices now arrive instantaneously.
• The corporate calendar widget user interface is updated.]]>Dec 7th 2009 4:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/motorola-droid-getting-2-0-1-now-verizon-posts-details/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/motorola-droid-getting-2-0-1-now-verizon-posts-details/Nice...]]>Dec 7th 2009 4:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/motorola-droid-getting-2-0-1-now-verizon-posts-details/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/motorola-droid-getting-2-0-1-now-verizon-posts-details/
Bluetooth Voice Dial?]]>Dec 7th 2009 4:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/motorola-droid-getting-2-0-1-now-verizon-posts-details/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/motorola-droid-getting-2-0-1-now-verizon-posts-details/Dec 8th 2009 1:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/motorola-droid-getting-2-0-1-now-verizon-posts-details/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/motorola-droid-getting-2-0-1-now-verizon-posts-details/lolz at u]]>Dec 7th 2009 4:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/motorola-droid-getting-2-0-1-now-verizon-posts-details/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/motorola-droid-getting-2-0-1-now-verizon-posts-details/Dec 7th 2009 4:25PM