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Verizon Droid update: all according to plan or aborted?

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Two blogs, two stories about what happened to the supposed rollout of an update to the Motorola Droid’s operating system. One says this is all on purpose the other suggests a flaw was found in last minute testing and aborted. Supposedly, Verizon has confirmed both, so what’s the truth?

Planned

According to Phonescooper, Verizon reached out to them confirming the plan is (and always has been) to update a small sample group of users first. Then, based on their experiences, roll out the update to all users. Sounds like a smart plan.

Only I was unable to identify another upgrade roll out where Verizon followed the same schedule of updating a few select users, then broadening it out to the general user population. It could be that the Droid currently sits atop the carriers “best phone” throne and they wanted to insure it wasn’t a pr nightmare? Or it could be the companies new way of doing things.

Crikey! It’s a bug

According to BGR, the rollout was called off at the last minute. BGR confirmed this with a few trusted informants and posted what appears to be a screenshot of a VZW computer detailing the delay. BGR updated the post to confirmed after reaching out to Verizon for a confirmation, suggesting VZW did.

So which is it? The only part of the info that both these stories agree on is two-part: an update to Android 2.1 is coming and no one seems to be sure when. We’ll keep waiting.

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