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Motorola Milestone owners feeling left out by the recent swarm of Android updates rejoice; Android 2.2 Froyo will be winging its way to your touchscreen Android device by the end of September. The news comes courtesy of O2 Germany through the networks Twitter feed and will come as music to the ears of Milestone owners across Europe.

The Motorola Milestone was, as the name suggests, a land mark launch for the US manufacturer having been languishing in obscurity for the past two years. Packing Android 2.0 (the first phone to do so), a stunning 3.7 inch touchscreen display (capacitive with multi-touch) and slide out qwerty keyboard, the Milestone received rave reviews and was hugely successful in the US as the Motorola Droid. Put simply, if you want a top of the range Android device with a touchscreen and Qwerty keyboard, the Milestone is the phone to get.

But, with the HTC Desire lording it over its rivals having recently made the jump to Froyo and the Galaxy S not far behind, getting the update in early September, the Milestone was starting to look a little long in the tooth. The news that the Milestone will be joining its peers and joining the ranks of Android 2.2 will revitalise the device and give it a new lease of life.

The Motorola Droid’s (or Milestone as we know it) days as the number one Android phone were short lived with the touchscreen/QWERTY device quickly surpassed by the Google Nexus One in the states and the HTC Desire here in Blighty. But, if newly leaked rendered images are to be believed, Motorola aren’t taking this lying down and are (if the rumours are true) busy working on a Droid successor and could even be making Google’s next phone, the Nexus Two!

Going under the intriguing codename ‘Shadow’, the rumoured phone sports the same form factor as the current Droid/ Milestone; large touchscreen display, slide out QWERTY keyboard and slim design. The Shadow is said to up the screen dimensions to a whopping 4.3″ (the Milestone featured a 3.7″ display), boast an 8.0 Megapixel camera with HD video capture (most likely 720p) and an HDMI port. Other rumoured specs include the latest version of Android (most likely 2.2 or Froyo), a 720MHz processor and 512MB of RAM.

So, that’s the Motorola Droid2 covered, but what about the Nexus Two? Well, rumour has it Motorola will be making a QWERTY-less version of the Shadow for Google to release as the Nexus Two. If true, this would mean a phone of HTC HD2 proportions running Google’s Android OS, something Android fans have been crying out for ever since the HD2 was released. No word on official announcements or launch dates for either of these devices yet so keep ‘em peeled on the Blog for more info as and when we get it. Source.