The HTC Droid Incredible on Verizon (read our review) appears to be slated for an official update to enable 802.11n Wifi — that’s the fast kind — according to a filing Friday with the FCC. [via Wireless Goodness] Included in the filing is an updated owners manual, which clearly shows 802.11n speed as being supported, as you can see below.
We’ll go out on a limb here and say this may be a precursor to an update to Android 2.2, which we know officially supports 802.11n. And, no, we have no idea when any update may be pushed out.
And speaking of updates, HTC issued a statement to BGR regarding the “issue” of browser thumbnails (you’ll recall it’s not really a bug) being cached on the phone’s internal storage, which is not wiped by a hard reset. HTC said:
HTC has identified the root cause of the DROID Incredible not deleting web page thumbnails after a factory reset, and is creating an update which will eliminate this issue. This will be distributed through a software maintenance release that will be pushed to devices in the near future.
We’re not sure if that means the internal storage (those 6 gigabytes of space not used by the operating system) will be wiped on hard reset, or if the browser thumbnails will be moved to a different partition. Regardless, HTC reminds us that you can wipe the internal storage — as in erase everything that’s on it — by going to Settings>SD Card and Phone Storage>Format phone storage. So the sky’s not falling, people. Big brother’s not watching you (at least not over this), and we can all go back to complaining about when we’ll get Android 2.2.
