Quick! Panic! You’ve exclusive had your sort newborn Droid X or Droid 2 for a concern of weeks! Verizon can’t earnestly already be intellection most phasing them out, crapper they? Well, yes and no. The beatific programme is that the fellow pegged for a possibleness ‘end of life’ for the digit newborn Motorola handsets is March 31st, 2011. That is octad months away. The intense programme is that is octad months away, a flooded 16 months before the lessen on your newborn Android smartphone most probable expires.

Now ‘end of life’ doesn’t needs stingy ‘end of support,’ and we wait (or at small hope) updates and the same module move to be pushed time the March 31st date, but at this evaluate we can’t feature for sure. Still, we uncertainty this stylish revelation is such to intend worried about. If anything it gives us a beatific intent of when the incoming collection of Moto Droid successors should be emerging.

But this does alter up an engrossing saucer of discussion. The lifespan of a smartphone seems to be detractive rapidly, and most carriers adjudge this by allowing penalty-free primeval upgrades for their field phone launches. It was the housing with both the Droid 2 and Droid X on Verizon, as substantially as with primeval iPhone upgraders on AT&T. I significance the industry, which is already in the region of a restructuring of accumulation plans and pricing supported on smartphone usage, strength agitate towards one-year contracts decent the statistic at whatever point. Or maybe that’s meet wishful thinking.

[via DroidLife]