Now, that we finally got Android FroYo for Motrola Milestone, I installed it on my phone. Here are my first impressions (which I expect to be updated within the next few days). Please feel free to comment.
As recommended, I did the factory reset before upgrading and (just to be sure) after upgrade again, though I feel the latter one wasn’t necessary. I can recommend upgrading. Most things work more fluently than before. Upgrade didn’t leave a negative impression so far.
Positive things to mention (did the upgrade about two hours ago):
- Flash works (only tried a single game and it lagged but so what..?)
- Finally (!) no longer two different calender apps (both gmail and exchange displayed in one calender)
- Home Screen runs very(!!!) smoothly – so does the overall experience compared to 2.1
- Lock Screen’s ‘Silent’ slide turns phone to vibrate, not to completely silent
- Browser appears to run much faster
Negative things to mention:
- when setting up a lock-screen-pattern, then locking the screen means to make you BOTH touch the usual unlock-slide AND draw your unlock-pattern – so it is even more stupid than before. Using unlock-slide whenever screen is turned off and ask for the pattern after timeout would make more sense to me. Also, when setting timeout to e.g. 30min, you are not asked to touch the unlock slide either…
- the overall look and feel is the same as in Android 2.1 (Not quite sure if this is supposed to be different)
- For some reason, you have to decide between turning your phone silent OR on vibrate… this is really pretty stupid :-/
Overall: I (and many others) waited for ages, but it leaves a very good first impression. Maybe still some sort of thanks to Motorola.
P.S. ProTip: Write down the names of your installed apps before the upgrade and then reinstall them using the market web interface from your PC (just log on with your gmail account) – it will save you hours 
