for those of us anxiously awaiting the arrival of firefox (or fennec if you’re gangster) to our motorola droid, the timetable for its release may have just been shortened.  mozilla released its first mobile version on nokia’s n900 and n810 this past friday which will leave the rest of us to believe that android is up next.  both systems are linux-based so maybe those february rumors are on the verge of actually coming true?

an interesting tidbit we caught in this cnet article shows something to be concerned with…

Mozilla’s accomplishment with a mobile version of Firefox is a mixed one, and not only because Maemo is a platform relatively few people have heard of. Nokia’s open-source, Linux-based Maemo operating system supports mobile Firefox on just two devices–the N900 and the N810, an Internet tablet. To make matters more limited, just two days ago Mozilla unveiled a third release candidate with a last-minute decision to pull wholesale support for Adobe’s Flash plug-in from the build, citing unhappiness with the overall standard of quality. As an aside, this is apparently a sore spot for Adobe, who became miffed with Apple for excluding Flash in its new iPad device about the same time that Mozilla made its comment about degraded performance when visiting Flash sites.

no flash support?  either mozilla has officially lost it or they have just given us reason to believe that adobe is actually at fault for the delays of flash 10.1′s release.

what does everyone think?  excited about firefox?  could care less since we have dolphin?

this review may seem about 2 months late as the dolphin browser has been out for quite some time, but we hated the original version of it so much that we refused to really promote.  however, the crew over at dolphin has recently released the 2.0 version of their multi-touch browser and they have made it worth your time again to check out.

they’ve fixed the inaccuracies of the old multi-touch, made gestures more responsive and even added preview-styled page flipping.  sooooooo much nicer.  check it…

who doesn’t love a good saturday application review?  today we’re looking at a reader-style application called buzz deck which does more than just bring your current news.

only in its beta stage, buzz deck has a ton of potential and is the application i use constantly to get current news all in one place.  check it…

on a slow friday in the motorola droid world we were handed this awesome video.  it comes from reader @johnpariah who took the time to install all of the android 2.1 apps we’ve been raving about and then provided evidence of their awesomeness.  he also took a look at beautiful widgets which is a paid app worth your $2…

on a side note, during the video he comments on us porting all of these apps over ourselves which i need to correct him on. while i’d love to take all the credit in the world, my conscience can’t allow that.

just look at this blog as an outlet for all things motorola droid so that you don’t need to spend countless hours sifting through the trenches trying to find the latest and greatest updates. we’re essentially your average user, but one that loves us some droid hacks and news!

for you new visitors, here is the current list to make life really easy…

1.  flan gallery 2.1
2.  genie news and weather 2.1
3.  launcher 2.1
4.  music app 2.1
5.  clock app 2.1

our first contest is officially finished!   it was a simple one, but definitely a successful one in our minds.  for such a new and unheard of blog, we had just the right amount of entries and want to thank everyone who entered into the mayhem.  yay!

with that said, time for the winners of our 2 google voice invites!  (drum roll…….)

@john_j_velez and @derekmas10!

congrats you two.  i hope you enjoy the awesomeness that is google voice.  to the rest of you, make sure to get on the google voice list so you can experience its greatness sooner rather than later.

and stay tuned as always for future contests which will hopefully include tangible products!  (hah)

let’s take a moment and thank verizon and motorola for giving us a device that has really had zero major issues since its launch 3 months ago.  many were frustrated to hear that google’s nexus one would launch only a month or so after our motorola droid yet have the latest and greatest android operating system.  look who’s laughing now?

nexus one users completely lost data coverage for almost 12 straight hours starting last night about 3AM, finding this message when entering their browser…

“To connect to the internet with the device you are using, you’ll need a webConnect data plan. Please call Customer Care at 1-800-937-8997 to make sure you have the correct webConnect data plan “

not only do we have most of the applications from android 2.1, but we also have one hell of a stable phone and operating system.  after hearing about a new nexus one issue almost daily, i think i’m going to be ok with 2.0.1 for a while longer until all these gigantic issues are taken care of.

cheers motorola droid users.  cheers.

(photo engadget)

just a quick reminder to those of you who have not yet entered to win free google voice invites!

the contest started last week and ends tomororw!  the instructions are about as simple as it gets really…

1.  follow us on twitter.
2.  tweet the following message:

@droid_life is giving away 2 #google voice invites! http://bit.ly/7YPXlN – just RT this and follow @droid_life to win!

3.  make sure to subscribe to our feed for exclusive contest notifications.
4.  tomorrow, the 29th, we will direct message two winners via twitter.
5.  the winners will then be announced on the blog!

that’s it people!