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Kellen

It’s not often that you get to merge personal passions into a professional life, but that’s what Kellen did when he launched Droid Life in 2009. After working years of unsatisfying jobs in the medical and property management fields, he took a risk to try and create an online community while playing with the coolest gadgets on the planet each day, a risk that has turned out to be incredibly rewarding. Outside of Droid Life, Kellen is your typical Portlander who drinks way too much good beer, complains often about the Trail Blazers, and can be found out on the streets for a run, rain or shine.

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  • No flash? WTH. Ugh. I didn't care about OTA 2.1 (rooted and DroidMod1.0), but wanted flash update. I can't believe how many sites I can't experience completely due to the Flash software.

    • Well that says “Verizon Wi-Fi” which I think is different than just enabling wi-fi on your phone…

  • This is more of a question for Keller or anyone who used the leaked update some weeks ago: Was it faster in anyway? I know some roms are pretty quick as far as navigating the multiple home screens and opening programs, etc.

    • It was as smooth as the stock 2.0.1 is. At first I thought it was faster, but whenever I revert back to stock 2.0.1 I realize how smooth it is as well.

      • Kellex,

        You really need to come up with a chart or grid that outlines the differences between some of the popular roms and this new official 2.1 release. I'm having a hard time deciding what to do and I'm sure a lot of other people are as well. There seems to be a lot of speculation of what will be in the update vs what is real. Any way you can build a chart? I know many people would benefit from it.

        Thanks,

    • I'm on the leaked ese53 right now, and I believe it's faster. Atleast the scrolling of web pages is, and also any scrolling on the phone is faster, no lag at all.

  • Once again, where's 2.1 for Droid Eris?!? It's a Droid too. Why can't we get the update on the same day? All we have is 1.5. (sigh). We'll probably never get 2.1. Verizon's gonna hold out on us. Again.

    • where did you see no update for Eris? Only thing I have read is that it WILL be out for Eris

      • I know. It's just taking so long to get the update and I've read about both sides of the argument. It's so confusing. I mean c'mon! We still have freaking 1.5! Sorry for my overreaction. 🙂

        • Didn't the Moto Droid and HTC Droid Eris come out on the same day? If you are that worried about having the latest Android OS, why didn't you just go with the Droid?

  • So it will update on it's own? Or can we go to system—> check for updates and do it manually?

    • You can do either. But doing it manually won't force it to download early. It's there if you deny the update at first but want to DL it later.

  • ok so my droid is rooted and i love it i have the 7 screens, live wallpaper, pinch to zoom, etc but my question is should i unroot for the ota i mean what is going the be the difference, idk sombody please help me so i can make the decision on what to do before 2morrow

  • I'm looking forward to the long awaited update but what has me really excited is the new custom ROMS that will be using the official ESE53 update. Its been less then 24hrs and I already miss my CyanogenMod. It was a little buggy but had a lot of advance features that I wish this update came with.

  • Is it confirmed that we must UNROOT to receive the OTA update? I'm running DroidMod 1.0…

  • That word “Mandatory” really scares me. It makes me think that they are making it necessary because they may have blocked some things like tethering capabilities using PDANet. I am a little skeptical about this update now. Anyone else? I'll wait till someone tests tethering with the update before I accept it on my phone. Kellex or someone please test tethering using PDANet once you get the update and contact me at computergeek8392@live.com thanks!!

    • That word bothered me as well, I went ahead and went back to stock, I figure more than likely I can go back. If not, oh well. I wouldn't want some sort of flag on my account. Paranoid? I know…..lol

  • Thanks for all the updates Kellex, tomorrow Droid owners will be checking their phone every minute til they receive that update notification. Cant wait.

  • Probably not the right place to ask….but flash? I'm assuming it's not with this update since it's not listed on the feature pages?

  • oh me oh my… I'm so freakin excited.. gimmie now! this is gonna be the longest day ever.

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