OS Updates for DROID Eris in Google Map Navigation
The American mobile phone carrier Verizon is preparing for software updates to HTC DROID Eris, one of its freshly released handsets with the Android operating platform. For those who are familiar with the handset, the device is featuring the Cupcake, which is the 1.5 version of the operating software, which will be upgraded in the first quarter of 2010.
The change for the users to look out for is that Verizon has engaged to bring Google’s Map Navigation on the HTC Eris. This will be significant as the Google’s Map Navigation System was only noticed in Motorola DROID, a set which features the latest Android 2.0, nicknamed the Éclair, and after that in handsets featuring Android Donut or the version 1.6.
However, it may not be necessary that Verizon keeps the HTC DROID Eris to the Android 1.5 version, and the word around the internet electronics communities is that they may upgrade the handset to Android version 2.0, or even to the version 2.0.1 of the operating platform, as Google may upgrade it before the last sun of the current year sets. However, with the price range of HTC DROID Eris, that seems highly unlikely.
Instead, it is possible that Verizon may settle with providing its DROID users to the Android 1.6, in order to settle for a relatively low-key alternative of enjoying a richer web experience and also enjoying the upgrade of Google Map Navigation. This would prove to be a much more convenient way for Verizon to provide its users the promised features.
But we are already in the last month of the current year, and we will soon see the expected Android version upgrade from Google. Suppose Verizon does move the Eris DROID to the version 2.0, then that will create a very interesting scenario for observing how the market reacts to that.
Of course, this way the Eris will be considered a much more attractive handset, and it will be interesting to see how users choose between the HTC handset and the Motorola DROID offering the Android 2.0 OS. Although Eris is hardly a match for the MOTOBLUR interface, but the price range with the Android 2.0 OS will surely offer a tough fight. Who knows, the HTC DROID may surprise the market.
Tags: HTC-Droid-Eris
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