Mobile Phone News

They knew this day was coming, but still, we can’t help but feel like there must be some higher-ups at Verizon that are squirming today at the knowledge that the innermost workings of one of their highest-profile smartphones — the Droid Eris — are at this time available to anyone willing to invest the couple minutes that the package takes to download. This should give hackers some more elbow room to cook custom ROMs for Verizon’s remix of the Hero — and if they can beat an official Android 2.1 release for the phone by even a single day, that sounds like a win in our book.

HTC pulls wraps off Droid Eris’ kernel source originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Mon, 01 Feb 2010 22:44:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

We’ve known for Truly a while that Motorola’s Milestone was steaming its way towards Telus, but what we didn’t know — aside from the irritatingly vague Q1 2010 — was precisely what day you could expect to find yourself lined up for yours — you are getting one, aren’t you Canada? We’ve at this time heard that January 26th is the rumored target date for Telus’ missing hero Android device, and that suits us just fine — though, we’re still waiting on a dollar figure. But please keep in mind, dates — or unverified information, that can prove to be completely untrue — like this can slip, so don’t come pounding on our doors if this slips back down the calendar. We’ll be watching for Telus’ Milestone closely and hopefully hear a little more soon.

Telus’ Motorola Milestone gets a date? originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Tue, 12 Jan 2010 05:48:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

The GSM version of the Hero just got hooked up with a new firmware update, version 2.73.771.73 (H3G). We don’t know what’s in in this place yet — HTC hasn’t offered up a changelog — but we’re foolishly hopeful that it’s something newer than Android 1.5 (emphasis on “foolishly”). Let us know how it goes, folks.