{"id":13424,"date":"2010-12-02T10:02:35","date_gmt":"2010-12-02T09:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=13424"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:07:32","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:07:32","slug":"original-motorola-droid-users-get-android-system-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/original-motorola-droid-users-get-android-system-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Original Motorola Droid users get Android system update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-13425\" title=\"The original Motorola Droid\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2010\/12\/motoroladroid.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"217\" height=\"172\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It may not be the update to Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) that <strong>original Motorola Droid<\/strong> users were hoping for, but it\u2019s an update just the same. In the next 24 hours a group of preselected testers will have access to the <strong>FRG83D build update<\/strong>, believed to be <strong>Android 2.2.1 (Froyo)<\/strong>.\u00a0 If all goes well, Motorola will likely make the update publicly available to all original Motorola Droid users within the next couple of days.<\/p>\n<p>The update is relatively minor and seems primarily to be a bug fixer. It does include what promises to be a nice (but small) selection of added features. These include an updated <strong>Twitter application<\/strong>, as well as updated widgets for <strong>Amazon<\/strong> and <strong>News &amp; Weather<\/strong>.  There have also been improvements made to Exchange ActiveSync, including added support for Exchange 2010 connections. In addition, the Gmail user interface will be enhanced.<\/p>\n<p>Originally, there was confusion whether this would be an update to Froyo or Gingerbread, but it&#8217;s looking like the former. This makes sense.\u00a0 Although there are rumors that Gingerbread will be released on December 6, there has yet to be confirmation from Motorola. A few comments from Droid beta testers also seem to hint that this update is minor at best, despite the hype surrounding it.<\/p>\n<p>Instructions on updating your original Droid can be found on Verizon&#8217;s website <a href=\"http:\/\/support.vzw.com\/how_to_use\/droid_upgrade.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It may not be the update to Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) that original Motorola Droid users were hoping for, but it\u2019s an update just the same. In the next 24 hours a group of preselected testers will have access to the FRG83D build update, believed to be Android 2.2.1 (Froyo).\u00a0 If all goes well, Motorola will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/original-motorola-droid-users-get-android-system-update\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Original Motorola Droid users get Android system update&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2028,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-13424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334558,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13424\/revisions\/334558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13424"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=13424"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=13424"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=13424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}