That "special project" Motorola announced for the DROID is not an upgrade to Gingerbread or Ice Cream Sandwich. It's just two security patches that are essentially “invisible” in terms of device operation. Motorola caused a stir when they asked some DROID owners to test out a new upgrade for the device.

Motorola revealed on Friday the real reason for the update:

"Thanks very much for signing up to give feedback about your Motorola Droid. You will be testing final software for Droid. This is a very limited update providing two security patches for the device. It should be essentially “invisible” in terms of device operation."

Android fans have been waiting for the Motorola Droid Bionic ever since it was announced earlier this year. The device has been getting rave reviews and impressed the crowds at CES 2011. Now all this can be yours when the device goes on sale September 8th for $300 with a two-year contract at Verizon Wireless.

The Droid Bionic is the latest and fastest member of the Verizon 4G LTE family, which offers blazing data speeds across the country. Specifications and accessories for the Droid Bionic (like the Lapdock pictured above) make the Bionic an attractive option even with this relatively steep pricing.

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.