Good news for Dell Streak owners in the UK today, as carrier O2 has conformed that ANdroid version 2.1 – Eclair – will be available for Streaks on their network starting September 1st, Wednesday. This is an interim release designed to keep rabid fans at bay while waiting for the current version of Android, 2.2, or Froyo. It will be a heck of a lot easier to justify the recent purchase of a gadget running 2.1 than the (what now feels) very old 1.6, but with version 3.0 on deck, we can only hope that Streak owners see Froyo before Gingerbread is officially released by Google.

Unfortunately for U.S. Streak owners, Android 1.6 will be the daily bain for their AT&T Streaks for a bit longer. No official 2.1 or 2.2 release windows have been announced, though 2.1 ROMs are floating around out there.

• US Dell Streaks could jump 2.1, go straight for the Froyo
• Dell Streak dismantled
• Lumigon T1 design updated, gains .1 Androids
• DROID 2 [Verizon] preview and initial thoughts
• Froyo likely coming to DROID X in “early September”

It’s unlikely that any of you that are familiar with CyanogenMod have been waiting for this particular moment to flash version 6 of the most popular cooked Android ROM. Nightly builds and release candidates are probably holding fort on as many devices as any previous version of the CyanogenMod team’s software. Nevertheless, this milestone should inspire you hackers out there to update or flash afresh, as CyanogenMod 6 represents a high water mark in phone hacking and the culmination of the diligent work of many brilliant folks.

Here is the announcement post over at CyanogenMod, and you can look up device-specific information in the CM forums.

CM 6 brings Android 2.2, as well as a host of exclusive features and optimizations, to the Nexus One, Desire, G1, MT3G, MT3GS, EVO, CDMA Hero, and the original Droid.

• New CyanogenMod boot animation (Video)
• A glimpse of CyanogenMod 6 on the HTC EVO 4G

You read that right, folks, and this comes straight from VZW by way of some quasi-official email announcements and a very slow-loading (at least the time of this writing) information page. We’ve received so many tips on this OTA over the last week – each pegging a different release window – that the only viable option was to wait and see which one panned out. (Thank you, Mr. Dinc.)

Verizon has published two PDFs on the matter: Benefits of Software Update and Software Update Instructions.

If you haven’t received notification of the update’s availability just yet, you will soon. Of course you could spend the entire day obsessively performing manual checks. Incredible owners, your time has come.

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Motorola has posted a detailed Android upgrade list over in their support forums that mostly confirms users’ suspicions, for better and for worse. What’s the worst news? CLIQ and CLIQ XT have been pushed from Q2 to Q3/early Q4… and Devour isn’t getting 2.1 at all.

DROID X is on track as planned for 2.2, and the Backflip will see 2.1 in Q3.

• Motorola’s Android Ming line up for China
• Verizon Moto leak bomb
• DROID 2 [Verizon] preview and initial thoughts
• Motorola Milestone to see Froyo this September
• New Moto DROID slider in the works

Yes, a lot of people have guessed that the next iteration of Android – after Gingerbread, that is, which most are pinning at version 3.0 – would be called (the registered trademark) Häagen-Dazs. I guess that was just as likely as Hazelnut Hotcakes or Honeypot, but TechRadar has word that the post-GB release of Google’s OS will be referred to as Honeycomb. Sweet!

TR also points out that a search for “Android Honeycomb” reveals the terms popping up together in various places, but as you can imagine, now that the buzz is out that search returns today’s news, mostly.

So if Gingerbread is all about UI and tablet-friendliness, what will Honeycomb be about? Minor fixes and features, most likely. Then again, with Android moving to a yearly update cycle, who knows?

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