Wait...Is FRF50 not the real deal?

[Droid800]

One of the Google Android devs stated yesterday over at XDA that those with the current 2.2 Froyo will receive the official OTA update when it is released.

Google isn't the type to release a preview to the Jurnos/reviewers/press and ditch them when the public release goes live.

Well the concern was that you wouldn't be able to update, especially if a tweaked build of FRF50 is the final update. Since Google handled the entire thing poorly (didn't acknowledge that FRF50 had made its way into non-dev/press hands, and didn't say whether it could be updated to the real OTA) people were understandably concerned about how the final OTA would work.

 

[dan1431]

I agree, Google really did not handle this as well as they could have.

IMHO at I/O (during the Keynote) somebody at Google could have said something like expect FroYo to be released in the coming weeks, first to OEMs and DEVs, than N1 owners and finally to carrier branded devices.

Instead, Google says nothing till mid-day at I/O and then only via Tweet that FroYo is coming (to OEMs, and DEVS in the coming weeks). Saturday of that week Google pushed a "beta" build of FroYo (via OTA) to some people (there is even some confusion here as some claim the press units IMEIs were included by mistake) and are completely silent about it till some noise is made a tweet is transmitted that a build (FRF50) was released and another (build) is coming with official FroYo shortly.

Quite frankly for a company like Google which tends to be fairly well put together this somewhat surprising.

Dan