While many of you have chosen to root your Dell Streak and have already tasted Froyo (Android 2.2), it looks like Dell is rolling out the Android 2.2 update to their unbranded Streaks in the United Kingdom while they peg late December for their carrier specific devices.
Below is the announcement for the Android 2.2 update and we should expect the “late December” to carry over into the early January time frame as well, so don’t get too upset when your Dell Streak doesn’t receive the update by New Year’s Eve.
The Streak Froyo Update will be completed in two phases for existing Streak customers.
Phase 1 : Beginning today, Monday, November 15, 2010, an OTA update will be available to customers who purchased their Streaks as unlocked units. These units will be upgraded first because they do not have to go through the carrier approval process. Unlocked units are generally popular outside the United States and can be identified by the fact they are able to be used with a SIM card from any carrier network. The rollout of the upgrade will be gradual with different regions and versions of Donut and Éclair updated over the weeks following November 15, 2010. When a user’s device is ready for an update, the user will be notified by an update icon in the notification bar after a power up. A user can also manually check for an update by going to Settings – About Device and selecting System Updates. Devices ready for update will then be taken through the update process.
Phase 2: Starting later in December, users on devices locked to a specific carrier (i.e. you can only use your carrier’s SIM in the device) will start seeing updates as we work with our carrier partners for technical approval.
Be sure and hit up Dell for how to backup your device and to keep up with the update status.
Via: Dell, Unwired View
