Android 2.2 coming to Nexus One, open source community 'in the coming weeks'

Why, thanks Google! Just a day after wrapping up a rather monumental Google I/O event in Northern California, the company's official show Twitter account has belted out a tidbit that just about every attendee was wondering about. According to the outfit, Android 2.2 (yeah, that's Froyo for the inexperienced) will be "made available to OEMs and the open source community in the coming weeks," and it'll be hitting up the HTC-built Nexus One in the "next few weeks." That's music to our ears, and if you're unsure what kind of impact this will have on your own life, feel free to take a deep dive into this right here.

[Thanks, Alex]

[Tes Posted May 21st 2010 4:45PM]

@joe23521

I work in development...there is no reason alpha code cannot be seen by someone building another related component so that they can at least begin to develop their code. At no point doe this mean HTC or Motorola get any say in the underlying code, but they can at least stay ahead of the game.

[Narutogrey Posted May 21st 2010 6:07PM]

@Tes There's no incentive for Google itself to let HTC or Motorola in on the action early. All they care about is getting as many people on the internet as possible. That'll happen whether or not HTC's phones are on 2.1 or 2.2.

[iHakr Posted May 21st 2010 4:27PM]

See? this is why I wanted a N1 on Sprint..... ugh

[palomosan Posted May 21st 2010 4:27PM]

That was fast but since this is the Google phone it was for sure to get the the Froyo treatment.

[Critic2029 Posted May 21st 2010 4:29PM]

I want a Nexus One... But I have Obsolescence Fear. I was suckered into buying the Dev1 G1, which was dumped after 1.6.

[squirrelnut1416 Posted May 21st 2010 4:31PM]

@Critic2029
the nexus 1 is their flagship phone. i really doubt they'd drop that puppy anytime soon. its the phone they hand out to dev's as well.

[joe23521 Posted May 21st 2010 4:36PM]

@Critic2029

If you have obsolescence fear, you shouldn't be into gadgets.

[Critic2029 Posted May 21st 2010 4:39PM]

@joe23521

I've got no problem buying something new every year or two, but they quit making updates to the G1 within 6 months.

[ac2913 Posted May 21st 2010 4:41PM]

@Critic2029

Your g1 has been brought to life with cyanogenmod...2.1 is a go...he's also already talked about 2.2 to the g1 with cm 6

[pika2000 Posted May 21st 2010 7:14PM]

@Critic2029 Consodering there are still Android phones released with less spec than the N1, I don't think it will be abandoned that quick. The G1 was, the G1. It has the lowest end reference hardware for android. N1 is a different beast.

[chosenone1 Posted May 28th 2010 1:54AM]

@Critic2029 Thats why we root devices to keep them running on newer software ..
IMO the G1 is a legendary phone in the android community and the legend just keeps growing with each port of newer OS to it

[misterhearn Posted May 21st 2010 4:29PM]

well I can sense a lotta roms on the way after this. I woulda got an N1 but I wasn't doing T-Mobile or AT&T to get it.

[coitis1 Posted May 21st 2010 4:38PM]

Awesome! Can't wait for the update! I'm currently in the car with co-workers on our home from a week at a client and using PDANet through USB. Having the wi-fi option will be sick.

[MAPCINQ Posted May 21st 2010 4:42PM]

Sounds pretty sexy to me... especially while I type this on my N1

[samuraisul Posted May 21st 2010 7:05PM]

@MAPCINQ
I just approved of your comment and am currently typing this on my N1, too!

Lawlz

[V1cKdB Posted May 21st 2010 4:50PM]

Awesome! Now all 80,000 N1 owners can rejoice while the 2 million Droid owners can wait about 4 months. Nice.

[stabbytheicepic Posted May 21st 2010 4:55PM]

@V1cKdB Motorola and verizon are always a bad choice

[V1cKdB Posted May 21st 2010 4:57PM]

@stabbytheicepic

Please elaborate. I don't understand rubbish.

[MrHashbrown Posted May 21st 2010 5:05PM]

@V1cKdB I read somewhere that besides the N1, the Droid would also be one of the first to receive the update. I think I read it on AndroidCentral.

[Dr Yusuf AlKindi Posted May 21st 2010 4:50PM]

EVO + Froyo are like Ronald and Nancy
Anjelica Huston & Jack Nicholson. To keep them apart would be a sin!


Evo should get Froyo right away if HTC knows what's good for them. Boyz & Girlz, Is it worth the risk of buying an Evo on June 4th?

[Callanish Posted May 21st 2010 4:57PM]

Does anyone know if there is anywhere that lists possible bug fixes in android 2.2. Seems that any wi-fi bug fixes were completely skipped over on the 2.1 update. My motorola droid can't connect using wifi if WPA encryption is on, whereas no problems with anything else connecting to the motorola SBG900 cable modem / router. Contacted Motorola. They said the Motorola droid is incompatible with the Motorola SBG900 using WPA. Go figure!!! I was advised to drop my security down to WEP. Was hoping it was an android issue and it would have been something getting fixed in Android 2.2. Now I'm not so sure and looks like it'll never be fixed. Saw some were using WPA TKIP encryption on the router, rather than AES and it worked for them, so I guess I'll try that first before giving up entirely.

[FreezingD Posted May 21st 2010 5:06PM]

You know, some 50000 barrels of oil are spewing into the Gulf Of Mexico each day, and I do try to not worry too much about not being first in line for the next Android release.

[geo1378 Posted May 21st 2010 5:11PM]

is there a way too root droid incredible yet? i want wifi tethering now

[teab Posted May 21st 2010 5:17PM]

Isn't it silly that instead of actually caring about user experience that a large number of people are only concerned about
1. Bragging rights
2. Being pawns for companies by siding with one or the other mindlessly without realising that instead of benefitting themselves, they are now volunteering to be salesmen for a company.

Stupid

[SteveyAyo Posted May 22nd 2010 4:31AM]

@teab i feel like youre implying that the Android 2.2 user experience is somehow inferior to something and that people getting it are only doing it to be trendy... is that what youre saying?

If so i dont care Android > than everything available and its not trendy at all

[ojesse81 Posted May 21st 2010 5:54PM]

Hoping it makes its way to Verizon before they kill my Eris. super happy with the recent 2.1 upgrade bit 2.2 looks even better

[Jpack207 Posted May 21st 2010 6:34PM]

Wow. I have to say, i'm becoming very impressed with google at least from an android perspective. Now if they could just get more phone makers on board to just use the straight vanilla UI.

[samuraisul Posted May 21st 2010 7:02PM]

B-but I want it now!

[slinkyman22 Posted May 21st 2010 7:05PM]

What about the Hero from sprint I know they just released 2.1. I hope it come out for the hero, but if the past repetes then we will get it right before 2.3 comes out. Any info would be nice.

[Fanfoot Posted May 21st 2010 7:10PM]

I don't think I believe them. If it was just Google, sure. But since they're supposedly shipping Flash support with this release, I'm betting they'll be sitting on their asses waiting for Adobe. The test phones reviewers have seen don't even have hardware acceleration for Flash in them yet, and as a result blow through batteries fast and get blazing hot. I assume they won't ship it in that state, and I'm guessing that means we'll all be yelling about how long Adobe is taking soon enough...

[pika2000 Posted May 21st 2010 7:12PM]

As expected. Thing is, anybody knows when Google is stopping the online sales of the N1?

[jonwil Posted May 21st 2010 8:01PM]

What Google (and OEMs) should be doing is abstracting away the differences between hardware platforms so that the amount of code that has to be ported to get 2.x on a device is much smaller. For any phone without custom UIs like SENSE or BLUR, it should be possible to just port low level bits for the kernel and hardware and maybe a few things for the cellular radio and then layer an unchanged copy of the raw 2.x code on top of that.

My guess though is that the carriers are the ones responsible for the mess that Android is in (by delaying firmware updates for crap like "carrier acceptance testing")

[terrence1019 Posted May 21st 2010 8:37PM]

Froyo on the HTC Hero soon! (In the coming weeks :-D)

[JerzyIroc Posted May 21st 2010 8:45PM]

HTC BUILDS the N1.... They already have the N1 with 2.2... HTC obviously already has 2.2... With that said, when I get my Evo, I will FLIP the F*CK out if ANY other phone outside of HTC's phones(especially the Moto Doid) get the update BEFORE the HTC phones.... THEY ALREADY HAVE 2.2!!! How the hell could the Moto Droid get 2.2 BEFORE HTC when they ALREADY have 2.2 in their hands and just have to throw sense in it?? I will seriously be pissed off.... I already am because I know that's EXACTLY what's going to happen...

[AvgConsumer Posted May 22nd 2010 3:39PM]

@JerzyIroc

1. calm down
2. obviously thats going to happen because the evo runs sense. since this is a new android version htc will have to make changes to sense to make it work properly on 2.2
3. the n1 and droid will get it first because both run standard vanilla android, so there won't be any delay (besides verizon delaying it for you droid owners)

[TOYBOXX Posted May 21st 2010 10:30PM]

I'm curious to know if this 2.2 update will be available to Samsung Moment users at around the same time as everyone else?

[bf1sh24 Posted May 21st 2010 10:39PM]

i just got the motorola droid and i can't switch again because i already traded a dreadful blackberry tour for my droid. Please someone tell me that droid will get 2.2 Froyo because i just bought a Motorola Droid, Please.

[sylhety Posted May 22nd 2010 2:58AM]

@bf1sh24
Droid next on the line for 2.2 after n1........ Visit droid forums for more info

[sylhety Posted May 22nd 2010 2:44AM]

damn lucky N1 owner..i am jealous....droid