A real pleasant surprise for all Nexus One owners! The much awaited Android 2.2 Froyo update is currently being rolled out much earlier than expected specially for the “Google Phones”. TechCrunch reports that the OS update is happening only for Nexus One and not for any other Android phone as of now.
The update is available now via OTA (Over-the-Air) download and will take some time before the roll out completes. Look out for the notification tray for a “System Alert” for Android 2.2 which could be here for you any time now. Even though Google has shown its love over Nexus One, other phones should get the latest OS update sooner than later.
Just in case if you are wondering what’s so special in Android 2.2, check out our detailed post on the impressive features list of Froyo, which includes major improvement in speed over Android 2.1 OS. Watch this space for more updates.
Update: Android 2.2 SDK available for download
Download Android 2.2 SDK
The Android 2.21 SDK is now available for download. The downloadable platform includes a fully compliant Android library and system image, as well as a set of emulator skins, sample applications, and more. The downloadable platform includes no external libraries. o get started developing or testing against the Android 2.2 platform, use the Android SDK and AVD Manager tool to download the platform into your SDK.
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For 2.1 you could do a manual update. See
http://www.androidcentral.com/how-manually-update-your-nexus-one
So I guess for 2.2 this should be possible as well. Just need the URL. Anybody knows this URL