The Motorola Droid (or Milestone if you live in Europe) has enjoyed huge sales since its launch in October of last year, so much so the telecommunications giant is developing a faster, more feature rich model to succeed the original handset, giving it the name: Droid 2.
The Droid 2 features a physical keyboard and will sport a 1GHz processor – apps will open faster and it allow for swifter navigation. The one question that everyone wants to know was whether the Droid 2 would ship with Android 2.2 (Froyo) on its launch.
If two new screenshots are correct, the answer is yes and it should be the first Android handset to physically ship with the new firmware – many other handsets have received OTA updates previously.
We’ve stumbled upon two independent screenshots that will pretty much confirm matters:
The above screenshot from Droid-Life shows the Droid 2 running Android 2.2, the image below from Phandroid showing Verizon’s stock system where you can see the “OS Version” clear as day.
Motorola will have quite the lineup when the Droid 2 launches on August 12th, adding to the already very successful release of the Droid X.
Would you buy the Droid 2 knowing it has Froyo out of the box?
Depends on the price…. how much will it be?
This is the phone i have been waiting for… was about to get the droid when i saw the droid 2 was coming. hopefully it comes to the uk, the droid is not on any contract in uk so not so hopeful
As a Milestone 1 owner this news is worrying, Motorola still have not confirmed if they will be upgrading Milestone 1 to Android 2.2, something that annoys me, I wouldn’t have bought the handset if I knew that it wud only upd8 to 2.1 – makes it a defunct device once 2.2 rolls out. With them launching 2.2 with Milestone 2 it would seem they have already make their minds up. I hope I get a discount off the new version if 2.2 does not come to Milestone 1.