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We suppose we should be excited that Canada’s version of the LG GW620 Eve is getting any major update at all, but still: what the heck? LG Canada has communicated via its official Twitter account this week that Rogers’ version of the phone — its second QWERTY-equipped Android set after the Dream — would be getting an update to Android 1.6 (known to the bakers in the room as Donut, of course) this Spring. What’s crazier, it apparently won’t be an over-the-air boost since they’re saying it’ll be available from both LG’s and Rogers’ sites. That’s not a very big deal, but seriously guys, why 1.6? If it were to drop today it’d feel old — and by Spring, when HTC, Motorola, and likely Samsung all have 2.1 updates at the ready, this is just plan to look a little silly, isn’t it?

LG commits to Android 1.6 — not 2.0 — for Rogers’ Eve originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:21:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Among the production Android devices presently languishing on pre-Donut are the Galaxy and Galaxy Spica from Samsung — both of which use essentially stock implementations of the platform, robbing Sammy of the code-porting excuse that HTC has been using with Sense. That might be close to changing, though, at this time that Samsung Firmware’s saying that the Spica (alias Galaxy Lite) is signed up for a 2.0 update in February and that they “think its [sic] also for the Galaxy.” at this time, Samsung Firmware is far from an official Samsung source — but seeing how the site maintains a vice-like grip on every conceivable Samsung ROM the second it’s released, they’ve got some basis to be trusted on these matters. Of course, there’s also the circumstantial evidence that the company clearly has no excuse whatsoever to sit on the update any longer than it already has — not to say that’s ever stopped a company before, sadly.

Samsung Galaxy Spica getting Android 2.0 upgrade next month? originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:22:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Looking forward to a warm, delicious Donut or Eclair to get beamed down to your Sprint Hero? Well, keep on waiting — because there’s an update in the works, but it’s still plan to rock the same Android 1.5-based core that you’re already enjoying. it seems like users can expect a so-called maintenance release in “the next few weeks,” and while a complete changelog isn’t yet available, folks are being told that it’ll fix DST and messaging issues. As far as we know, HTC hasn’t put the finishing touches on Sense for 2.0 anyway, so we wouldn’t get discouraged just yet.