While
the Motorola Backflip
was just announced today, like its forerunners - the
Motorola Cliq/Motorola
Dext - it's only running
Android 1.5/Cupcake;
unlike the Motorola Droid/Motorola
Milestone, which were the first Android smartphones running
Android 2.0/Eclair.
However, MobileBurn reports now that earlier today, at a CES press event,
Motorola CEO
Sanjay Jha confirmed that the company plans to offer an Android 2.1 update for
its Motorola Cliq (and hopefully Dext) as well as for the Motorola Backflip. It
wasn't mentioned if the upgrade will also feature Motorola's MotoBlur service,
but it's most likely that Motorola will port it to Android 2.1 as well, since
it's a key-differentiator.
Anso Jha didn't give any estimate as to when the firmware updates for the
two/three devices will be available.
Cheers ~ Arne
