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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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  • Hope this fixes the fact that none of my 3 BT headsets will work with the HTC Incredible

  • Hope this fixes the fact that none of my 3 BT headsets will work with the HTC Incredible

  • This would be very good news. I am looking forward to getting this rumor confirmed.

  • My friend Bernard is very gullible and believes everything that is posted on this website. But he doesn't know that it's the goal of this website to get people really excited about stuff so that they keep coming back. I hope you guys aren't going to disappoint my friend Bernard. He's really pumped about his Incredible and would love nothing more than to have new cool features.

    • take your iPhone fanboyism and fix the antenna issue. Bernard sounds like an optimistic genius that is excited about beefing up the DI

  • Wow, HTC will put all the “Sense takes longer for them to get us updates” talk to rest if they get us Dinc owners Froyo that much sooner. That's 5/6 months!

  • It would be awesome if they included an option to switch from Sense UI to Android UI.

  • I honestly could not understand why Verizon would sell phones that pretty much competed against each other. The Incredible comes out and a few months later the droid x…both of them you can argue which one is better but the droid x is obviously the newer one. Why would anyone go for the Incredible? Giving it 2.2 first will make it more desirable. Giving the Droid X 2.2 first will totally make the Incredible not worth purchasing…logic goes to the rumor.

    • Not everyone want a huge phone. Verizon does not care if the phones compete as long as the customer uses verizon.

  • OK…I just rooted my DI…last week. Deleted the bloatware apps such as cityID, and did nandroid and Titanium backups. I understand that I must un-root so I can take the new OTA update and get the 720P and other benefits of the update… I used unrEVOked3 to root my device. A am a noobe to all this. A few questions:
    1. When I un-root, will I lose all my apps and have to re-install them?
    2. Will the unrEVOked3 process work if I run it again after I get the OTA update to re-root my phone? Or will the rooting process change?
    3. The unrEVOked3 process installed ClockWorkMod. Will that be removed when I un-root, or does that stay?
    4. Will the OTA update require reinstalling applications, etc. If so, can I use Titanium Backup to restore?

  • Here's a request: how to properly unroot from a post leaked OTA update. As I understand it, trying to go back to stock downgrade is not an easy task due to HBOOT being updated…

  • so the link shows an email from HTC…i would assume verizon has to ok the release? If so, are we talking another few weeks past the late july/early august target before we see the updates hitting our phones?

  • isn't gingerbread android 3.0 or what ever number it is suppose to rid of custom ui in the future

  • About a week ago I went into a verizon store to get some opinions on droid x vs. incredible, and mentioned earlier froyo as a benefit to the x, one cs rep had no idea what froyo was, the other said she had spoken to an htc rep that day who said it was coming in 4-6 weeks (corroborating this rumor).

    I went with the x, in part because I didn't believe her. for other reasons, I stand by my decision. Though I, for one, don't feel I'd have much to gain from rooting, so for others debating between the two, the challenge placed by the locked bootloader could make the difference.

    • THEY BOTH GOOD PHONE SO WITCHEVER YOU PICK YOU MADE THE RIGHT CHOSE I GOT THE INCREDIBLE AND LOVE IT………

  • So I take it that means they will release it to Verizon early auguest and verizon will take a month or two decding what to block.

  • the update we detailed earlier was actually the first part of a two-part process for introducing Android 2.2 (not unlike what we’ve seen before with upgrades to other HTC Sense devices). If the tipster’s to be believed, they’ll be consolidating the two updates into one sometime before mid-August.
    Froyo
    802.11 n
    3G Mobile Hot Spot
    HTC Widget: Email
    HTC Widget: News
    EAS Updates
    720p Video Recording
    Amazon MP3
    Skype
    My Verizon

  • I heard this also from a Verizon store owner and dismissed it as a rumor, thinking they were talking about another phone… will be interesting now to see what happens. I'd gladly unroot for this.

  • Hell yeah I am excited. Good thing I didn't pull the files from XDA, but I did install the new boot animation thanks to Droid Life 😉 Here's to wishful thinking!

  • yah this will be nice.. the Dinc will run so much faster with this froyo update … My girl keeps askin when she gona get the update too..lol

  • Anyone HEAR when the original DROID wil recieve the 2.2 Froyo update?? Im ready to call and start bugging the crap outa them!!!

    • My friend has the Droid, and he's called Verizon a couple of times asking about the update and everyone has given him a different answer. So good luck. Haha.

  • I just rooted my Dinc, will i have to unroot to get this? I havent installed any leaks or custom roms yet.

  • Moto being beat by HTC on an update? Who are you and what have you done with Kellex?? Lol…

  • Very Excited!! I just rooted (new to rooting) my incredible, will i still get the OTA update are will i have to unroot?

  • all this talk about these current phones… I am wondering , since i have an upgrade eligibility as of 8/20, if I should wait for the next wave of processors. I heard something about a dual core Moto…will that be out before Xmas?

  • excited DI owners? Yes….but I will reserve my “Giddy” until I get my notification that its a Go. I was very disappointed over the weekend. Imagine a kid from the South that gets a promise of snow in the forecast and then gets nothing but cold temps. That is how my weekend was after not getting the OTA.

  • I hope this is true, I have been refreshing my software update button every hour or so for the past couple of days and was starting to wonder where the ota was. This would be awesome and worth the wait for the 720p video and hot spot on boot animation.

  • Is it just me or shouldn't the original easy to update vanilla droid get it first? Or at least have a date? A phone with Sense getting it first just doesn't make “sense”. (see what I did thar? haha)

  • FROYO?!? I was wondering when this latest updated would get pushed to my DI. I guess for 2.2 I can wait till the end of the month. If this really is going to be coming out then, does that mean the EVO 4G would not be far behind since I'd think the major item to port would be the SenseUI bits…?

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