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Motorola Droid to receive Android 2.2 Froyo update in the near future

Motorola Droid to receive Android 2.2 Froyo update in the near future

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This shouldn’t come as a surprise but it’s always good to have an officialy  confirmation coming out of the company. SlashGear has contacted Motorola and asked them whether (and when) the Motorola Droid will get the Android 2.2 update. Here’s what Motorola answered:

“We’re excited to see Google’s news of the next version of the Android operating system and look forward to integrating it on our Android-based devices as it’s made available to the open source community.”

While I can’t comment on specifics, we do expect DROID by Motorola users will receive Android 2.2 as a software upgrade in the near future.”

So Motorola is basically waiting for Google to release Froyo to the open source community (and OEMs..). It is expected to happen in the coming weeks according to a Tweet from Google 2 days ago.

Source: Slashgear

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