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Tailor: probably because this time the whole Eclair development was centered on the Droid. (Which could, in turn, be because the Dream will indeed have serious trouble running 2.0 without resorting to repartitioning or SD card help, but IMO it’s most probably because they had a tight schedule and had to keep other manufacturers out of the process, as you have reported Samsung to have little knowledge about 2.0.)

nEx: indeed, the Galaxy doesn’t seem to be a Google Experience device, my bad. But there’s still the Samsung Moment, I believe.

Galaxy is not a Google Experience device, which indicates that Samsung very well could have changed aspects of Android other than the GUI itself. In that case then it wouldn’t necessarily be the Custom UI, but customization as a whole that hinders the update of these devices.

Your assessment of the Dream/Sapphire scenario seems entirely plausible.

You must work for Apple? Think of Android in the same way you think of Linux vs. Windows. The more options as handset manufacture has the better. They are the ones that are pushing the different flavors of Android, not Google. They clear feel that they are better off bringing to market a custom User experience than waiting on AT&T to give up their exclusive on the iPhone.

Not only that, but he reality is that we have yet to see what someone will build on top of Android that will change the game? Not an option on iPhone, you can only write apps! On Android you could create an amazing new phone experience.

Don’t get me wrong, I love my iPhone, and Touch, etc. But I also like shopping in places that have more than one option.

If your theory is ADP phones get routine updates, why has HTC not updated their drivers to support Android 2.0?

To the best of my knowledge, the only devices that were regularly updated were the Dream and the Magic. Dream and Magic both happen to be regular stock Android phones, but they are NOT the only ones. The Galaxy is still stuck with 1.5, disproving this theory.

So, why did these two phones get updated? Could be because, y’know, they happen to be the dev phones. They are ADP1, Ion, and also ADP2 now. So they have a very natural priority, as pretty much everyone working at Google on Android should have gotten at least one of these for free, and would be using it as their personal test hardware. As such, they will certainly solve any problems that prevents them from doing the testing.