Many Verizon customers read – with giddy excitement – yesterday’s news that Android 2.1 dumps for both the Droid and Eris have been leaked to xda-developers. We saw video evidence of the bump at work on the Droid a few days ago, but this is the first (that I’ve seen anyway) of the upgrade on Eris. Q2 is still the projected dats for a public release, folks, but at least we know it’s out there. Check the video after the break:

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This Tuesday, Google announced that Nexus One users would get an over the air update. The announcement surprised everybody. What was supposed to be an update to fix the Nexus One’s 3G issue turned out to be much more important: it finally brought pinch-to-zoom functionality to an Android phone in the U.S. (I know HTC’s Sense has multi-touch, but it was added by HTC). Pinch-to-zoom has been one of the most requested features by Android users, dating back to the G1’s release. Nobody knows for sure why it took this long for Google to finally add pinch-to-zoom. Theories range from a conspiracy type backroom deal with Apple (if true might have ended with Jobs’ recent comments) to simply Andy Rubin, Android’s head honcho, not liking multi-touch gestures. Whatever the reason, pinch-to-zoom was turning into the equivalent of iPhone’s MMS support: Something so basic and obvious nobody could explain why it was taking so long to be implemented.

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Thanks to The::Unwired for hanging out on Motorola’s Facebook page enough to catch the following post:

“Attention Android lovers. The 2.0.1 update is on its way for all Milestone users. The Android 2.1 upgrade for Milestone is also on its way and will be ready in the next 2 months. We can confirm that Dext will get the Android 2.1 upgrade as well.”

So in addition to the Cliq and Backflip, it looks like Moto has concrete plans to bring all current MotoDroids up to 2.1. Good news indeed.

Via The::Unwired

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It’s already been a long time coming. With the Nexus One being released just last week developers were left in the dark waiting for the 2.1 SDK. But now they can sit down, crack those knuckles and get to it. Google is calling this but “a minor platform release”. Yet as expected they released the API for the new Live Wallpaper feature found on the Nexus One. With announcements from HTC and Motorola that their devices will be recieving 2.1 we should be seeing a pretty good influx of these Live Wallpapers flooding the Market.

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We’ve been hearing the chatter from the depths of the Motorola and Android worlds that we should be seeing Flash 10.1 soon. Well, that time may be sooner than you think. Adobe dropped this nice little video yesterday showing off Flash 10.1 cruising nicely on a Droid running 2.0.

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