After rumors of a January release for Android 2.1 on Verizon Wireless proved to be wrong, Motorola Droid owners have been watching and waiting for any sign of the update. Google is supposedly the company working to get the update out and they have been silent on a timetable.

There are glimmers of hope now that the Motorola Droid in Hong Kong (or Milestone as they call the phone locally) has received the Android 2.1 update. Verizon has stated that 2.1 will eventually come to all Droid owners in the US, and rumors are flying about when this will happen.

Not yet. However, Adobe is already running Flash 10.1 on the Motorola Droid. We're sure the company will continue testing and Verizon will issue a software update one day soon that will add full Flash functionality to the Motorola Droid.

Stay tuned for more updates. As soon as we hear more about Adobe's progress we'll post it here.

If you've had enough of keyboard sound effects and vibrations on your Droid, follow these steps to silence them:

1) Go to Settings
2) Go to Language and Keyboard
3) Go to Android keyboard menu
4) Uncheck 'vibrate and sound on keypress'

Easy.

Hold ALT+SHIFT+DEL on the keyboard.

By default, YouTube videos are not set to play at high quality on the Droid.

If you want to view a YouTube video in high quality, begin playing a YouTube video, open the menu, then select 'more', and select 'watch in high quality'.

By default, the video recording quality on the Motorola Droid is not set to the highest level of video quality.

To improve your video quality, take these simple steps

1) Open the camera application
2) Open the menu
3) Set video recording quality to High

Hopefully, like many, many people -- you haven't convinced yourself that your phone is broken. Most likely, your Droid is fine, you just need to configure it to rotate automatically.

Head into your sound and display settings and make sure you have Auto Rotate enabled.

The hole on the left is IR emitter. The phone uses this to detect when the phone is held up to someone's face, and in response it turns off the display.

The hole on the right is the light sensor used by the phone's auto brightness feature to determine the amount of ambient light.

Despite the many things that the Verizon enjoys pointing out that the Motorola "Droid Does", evidently one of the things it doesn't do is get the Android 2.1 update, at least not yet. It had been fairly heavily rumored that Verizon was planning an OTA update to Android 2.1 for all Motorola Droid owners yesterday, January 22nd. Unfortunately for many hopefully Droid owners, yesterday has come and gone, and without an Android update.

The Motorola Droid, released on November 6, 2009, is the first Android phone to be offered on the Verizon Wireless network. The device features a 3.7-inch 854 x 480 touchscreen display, more than double the number of pixels of its leading competitor. With a two-year contract, the Droid runs $199.99 after rebates. Droid includes a slide-out physical keyboard and is the first phone to ship with Android 2.0.