EVO 4G’s Android 2.2 update starts trickling out tomorrow, loads of new features and fixes in store? (update: official for August 3rd!)
We’re not convinced that that period is going to hold — things like that have an uncanny tendency to slip at the last possible moment — but we’re at least hopeful to see some internal Sprint communication that they’re trying to get the EVO 4G updated to Froyo as soon as tomorrow, July 30. It’d be the perfect way to kick off the weekend, wouldn’t it? Turns out that is no mere 2.2 upgrade, though — they’re making a bunch of changes, too, including a host of new preloaded widgets, a flashlight mode for the camera’s LED flash, light-assisted 720p video, and “improvement” to the quality of said video capture (something we specifically complained about in our Review). Unfortunately, it looks like the hotspot hack might be sealed off with that update, but that really shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone. As we said, we’re hopefully the moment sticks, considering Sprint has identified it as a “high priority for competitive reasons” — in other words, these guys must be feeling the Droid heat — but the PR is apparently going to identify the week of August 1 as the first push, so the devices getting the OTA tomorrow might just be a very small, choose group to ensure that nothing spectacularly poor happens. We’re pulling for you, EVO owners.
Update: It’s been made official! Notifications will go out starting August 3, but Sprint’s doing something extremely cool by allowing eager users to opt-in early and grab the download at their choosing. Follow the break for the full press release.
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Original post by Chris Ziegler
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