Waiting is the Hardest Part

I have an odd relationship with the rumor mill. On the one hand, I know that there are people out there that are making things up strictly for the page views or to be able to say, "Hey! I started that rumor!" We'll call this the Peter Vescey group.  On the other hand, I have an insatiable curiosity for what might be coming down the pipe. This was very prevalent for me with the rumors about the iPhone coming to Verizon, information on the release of the Incredible, and most recently information about the Incredible moving to the new version of the Android OS, 2.2 or FroYo. When HTC announced that the handsets sold in 2010 would be moving to 2.2 before the end of the year, there was a bit of an uproar on the internet because people didn't realize that meant that all of the phones would be migrated before the end of the year, not at the end of the year.  Pretty soon, we were hearing about the HTC Evo being updated and it was. Then, everyone started asking questions about when the Incredible would follow its Sprint-based brother.  At least, I did, and since I'm writing this, I'm going to assume that everyone else was asking those questions right along with me.

I started checking the rumor mill. Pretty soon, there was word from somewhere (probably Peter Vescey) that the update would happen August 18th. To a tech-obsessed geek like me, this was the operating system equivalent of a pregnancy due date. You try and tell yourself that it's just a date. Nothing is confirmed and lots of things might happen between now and then, but it still gets ingrained in your mind that you have a definitive end date in site. When that "definitive" end date comes...and then goes...it's a bit disappointing.

Just like pregnancy, however, when things finally do start moving, they happen pretty quickly.  We had started hearing about a new date in early September. I again told myself not to get my hopes up while at the same time freely acknowledging that I would still get my hopes up. An odd thing happened, then. There was a leak of the official 2.2 build for the Incredible. People were excited and admonished people to let them know how it worked so that they, too, might upgrade. Soon after, a new rumor started: FroYo for the Incredible would drop the next day on the 27th. The labor pangs had began. On the 27th, Verizon indeed confirmed that 2.2 would be rolled out, albeit slowly, to the customers who had purchased the Incredible.

Here I am, now, on Saturday, the 28th, still waiting for my update. I know that every minute brings us closer to the arrival of the update. I know that in due time, my phone will also be updated and I'll be able to enjoy the improvements that come with the upgrade.  I have to say, though, all those logical, well-reasoned arguments don't make the waiting any easier. I wonder if going for a walk would help move things along?

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