How to Manually Update Your Droid to Android 2.1 RIGHT NOWS

Android 2.1 is here for Droid. That's good! But it's a staggered over-the-air rollout, meaning some of you won't get it until next week. That's bad! Fortunately there's a way to take matters into your own hands.

MobileCrunch outlines a game plan for a manual Android 2.1 update on Droid, and it's surprisingly straightforward: no hacking, no rooting. Just ten minutes of downloading and rejiggering. You can find the full instruction set here. [MobileCrunch]