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For those who signed up for the tester program, Motorola have started sending out information about how to participate in an early Gingerbread update for the Motorola Droid 2 Global this week. Aside from Android 2.3 Gingerbread, Motorola is also listing a lot of performance and other enhancements to the smartphone and make your experience with the Droid 2 Global a much better one.
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Enhancements:
Download Manager App:
• New App to manage all of your downloads from web browsing, email attachments and other apps.
App and Power Management Details:
• Under Manage Applications, a new “Running” tab displays a list of active applications and the storage and memory being used by each.
Multi-Touch Key-Chording:
• New ability to enter numbers and symbols with keyboard shortcut combos, instead of having to change to the numeric keyboard mode.
Improved Word Selection and Copy Functionality:
• New capability to select a word via press-hold. A second press of the selected word copies the selected characters.
New User Interface and Color Scheme:
• New widgets, icons and screens with refreshed colors.
Dock Icons:
• Static Phone, App Launcher and Contacts icons are replaced within a customizable dock. Three swappable icons and the App Launcher icon are fixed to the Dock at the bottom of all home screen panels for easy and instant access.
App Groups:
• New App Menu allows creation of custom app groups, in addition to 3 default groups: All Apps, Recent and Downloaded.
Security:
• Added Device and SD Card encryption. VPN enhancements integrate IPSec VPN clients into device security settings.
Updated Calendar Options:
• Display Calendar and event times in your home time zone when traveling.
• Dismiss individual reminders, such as dismissing one meeting reminder without dismissing other meeting reminders.
• Easy conference dialing – simply dial and automatically enter a conference code directly from your Calendar.
Additional Improvements: Email and Messaging
• Sporadic issues with unintended recipient list corrected for text, picture, video and audio multimedia messages.
• Exchange ActiveSync calendar events created on the device will now push to your PC calendar.
• POP3/IMAP emails now show the correct date stamp.
New ActiveSync Email Policy Support for the following:
• Data encryption for both the internal and SD card memory.
• Require manual synchronization while roaming.
• Allow HTML email.
Additional Device Features
• Improvements in stability prevent lockups, resets and force close errors.
• Bluetooth® devices will now select the correct audio recording level for optimal voice capture and alert you when your audio level is too low.
• Improved battery life while using Bluetooth.
• Access My Verizon without any force close errors.
• Reset Backup Assistant under Manage Applications menu.
• Enhanced connectivity when roaming in GSM/UMTS networks (Europe and India).
• Improved battery life during Wi-Fi use.
Preloaded Apps and Programs
• Google Books
• Accuweather
• Amazon MP3 Store
• Blockbuster®
• Adobe® Flash® Player 10.2
• V CAST Apps
Source: Android Community
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