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The Droid has an update to 2.1 available. The Eris has an update to 2.1 available. The Incredible shipped with 2.1.

While individual phones may ship with the old version all the Verizon Android phones I'm aware of have the ability to be updated to 2.1 in a carrier supported way.

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I would expect the Droid and the Incredible to have at least 1 update in them, maybe more - they were/are both flagship Android phones and were sold to less-price-sensitive customers who will expect an up-to-date OS. It's the cheapskate-phones, as I mentioned, like the Eris, that I wouldn't expect to get updated.

I'm genuinely surprised, though, that the Eris has been updated.

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