While I was walking down the street yesterday, I decided to see if my Verizon Motorola Droid X had any updates available for it, and it did. But after updating, there were pretty much no noticeable differences.
The update pushed to the pre-release Droid X in my hands isn’t the Android 2.2 Froyo update, and is likely a bunch of bug fixes. The 18 MB OTA seems to have no change log, and by the looks of it, even if we had one, it wouldn’t be all that impressive. We’re not sure if the units that are shipping to Verizon stores as we speak will actually come with the update pre-installed or not. The only thing that is different, is the the system version, which is now 1.13.604, coming from 1.13.516. We don’ really know when this was actually released, but I’m guessing yesterday was one of the first days.
One thing that I found somewhat odd is that I had to manually search for the update. I was not notified in anyway that there was an update available for the device, and since this is pretty much the only device I haven’t rooted, I can’t say that I know if eventually I’d have been notified that an update was available. We know Droid X users will have to wait until ‘late summer’ before they can get a taste of Froyo, but we would have been just as happy if Verizon just.. gave it to us early.. Well, you don’t have much longer to way for Froyo, but you may actually want to get your hands on Motorola’s Droid X, first.
On the good news front, you only have a few more days of waiting before you can get this thing in your hands. Verizon recently came out and said that the rumors that the Verizon Motorola Droid X supply would be awfully limited were debunked, but judging how some Verizon Android handsets are still not available, I’d suggest lining up at midnight of July 15h.
