Canadian Motorola Milestone will get Froyo...in 2011

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Canadian Motorola Milestone will get Froyo…in 2011

August 24, 2010 | by Andrew Kameka

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The Motorola update woes keep coming for our friends north of the border. Not only has Motorola refused to say when – or more accurately, if – the Backflip, Dext, and Quench would be updated to Android 2.1, the phone maker has changed the Milestone’s update status from “under evaluation” to “Q1 2011.”

Your eyes do not deceive you, Canadians. The earliest you can hope for a new firmware upgrade is four months, and it could be as long as seven months. By the time Motorola finally gets around to delivering the Froyo update to Milestone users, Google and other members of the Open Handset Alliance may have already delivered Gingerbread.

And that’s if Motorola even meets the update schedule at all. That’s no small order considering its pass history of missing self-imposed deadlines on a regular basis and then flat-out abandoning some devices.

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7 Comments

AwesomeFred says:

August 24, 2010 at 7:36 pm

One word: ROOT!
pogobi says:

August 25, 2010 at 3:47 am

One Word: SO? Root alone doesnt help anybody, especially with a locked bootloader.
Ben says:

August 25, 2010 at 4:19 am

Motorola is quickly running into a huge update policy problem. Somebody at their strategy level is churning out bad decisions by the dozen. You can't have both – a locked-down system and a lazy, inefficient update process. Either work with open source software the way it's supposed to be, and allow the community to develop updates themselves – or, if you don't want that, you have to be reasonably quick doing that job yourself. Delivering an update half a year after that of a nearly identical device is simply unacceptable by today's standard. I hate to say it, but at last I have to agree with what people have been saying for months now: don't buy Moto! Not until they've sorted out their huge update issue.
Dex says:

August 25, 2010 at 7:00 am

I think it's time for the android community to just boycott motorola, in europe at least. We gave them enough chances, but they have screwed us and left us with a locked bootloader. They are by far the worst distributer of android out of all the manufacturers – by deliberately limiting what the consumer can and can not do on a open platform. Fuck that. By moto, time to spread the word to everyone else not to buy moto android products. They're doing it wrong.
Bardelli says:

August 25, 2010 at 8:39 am

Bye moto, from a latin american Quench owner.
Brian Klippel says:

August 26, 2010 at 11:01 am

Motorola seems to be giving me regular reasons and reminders to never buy a moto device. I'm so glad that I went for the N1.
Felippe Montez says:

August 26, 2010 at 12:41 pm

Motorola has decided to not update the Milestone to Mexico and Latin America with the Froyo version (2.2). So I ask… why? Is it too diferent to the milestone in other regions? Shame on you, Motorola.