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Rogers’ HTC Magic to get Android 2.1 update!

Categories: Android, Devices, HTC, Rogers
By: , IntoMobile
Wednesday, January 6th, 2010 at 1:57 AM

HTC Magic

Good news for the HTC Magic owners on Canada’s Rogers Wireless. The carrier along with HTC is working to deploy the Android 2.1 update ala Nexus One to the first all-touchscreen Android smartphone. Of course, the Magic’s specs are far from the Google phone, but I’m sure things (apps) will run more smoothly with the latest version of Android.

We picked this line from Rogers’ official statement:

By mid-year, HTC will issue an upgrade to Android 2.1, including the highly acclaimed HTC Sense experience for the HTC Magic.

On the downside, the Dream won’t get the same treatment. They say due to “certain limitations,” the Dream won’t go beyond the 1.5 update. Kinda sad, especially when we know it can handle Android 2.1… Unofficially that is. ;)

Anyway, if Rogers can do it, so can other carriers. On that note, I’m guessing carriers around the world will offer the 2.1 update for “their Magic” as well…

[Via: MobileSyrup]

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  • Steph

    It's about mid year now… Does anybody know if Rogers will provide the update soon?

  • Pickles

    As far as I understand it, Rogers has the ROM's from HTC, and they are currently testing. Most likely the update will be available near the end of August or September. I'm quite certain that the 911 snafu earlier this year is making management take their ROM testing seriously.

  • Lunear

    I have upgraded to Froyo 2.2 with some customized ROM, and it works fine.