[booticon]

60% is 2.1, however, and both of these new Android features are only supported in 2.2. I have an Eris that went on sale less than a year ago, and chances are my phone will never be updated to 2.2.

[gmichnikov]

Every day I regret buying my mytouch 3g instead of waiting for the nexus one on the same network at the same price.

[dannyr]

My guess is that most phones that are still on 1.5 or 1.6 will never be updated to 2.1 or 2.2

If the phone is 2.1 now, it will probably get 2.2 by the end of the year.

[roel_v]

HTC started the rollout of 2.2 for the Desire last week. The Desire is selling well in Europe. I presume they're also rolling it out for the Legend, which was heavily mass-marketed for the last 3-4 months. I have the impression HTC is the main Android vendor in Europe at the moment. Just this rollout will push 2.2 deployment numbers up, I think.

As far as I know this is the first mainstream upgrade of phones from 2.1 to 2.2 (apart from the Nexus which is, imo, niche). Or did I miss any?

[carlrice]

2.1 users should check out Edwin. It does a lot of this stuff, it's free and its made by a HN reader.

[trafficlight]

My Verizon Droid just updated to 2.2 yesterday.

[portman]

Can I ask what city you're in? I've been refreshing System Information like a madman waiting for my 2.2 upgrade to come in.

[trafficlight]

I'm in Helena, Montana. Though, as of this morning, the other guys in my office with Droids haven't been upgraded either.