There's a good news for all the users of the Motorola Milestone in the UK.

Motorola Europe has declared that the much-awaited Android 2.1 update for the Motorola Milestone, the European adaptation of the Verizon droid, is at last available for download.

The enthusiastic can go over to Motorola's support pages and find it for PC installation, while those who have other important things to do, or who have a Mac, since Moto doesn't appear to proffer an OS X version of the firmware updater, can hang on for a few days for a guaranteed OTA update.

Amongst the amendments with the new Android 2.1 firmware for the Milstone consist of Speech to Text, live wallpapers, around 9 home screen panes and additional security for Exchange server consumers.

Also, there's a new help center preinstalled into the phone, a new 3D album art view in the media player, the capability to make the smartphone auto-erase after a number of wrong pin entries, and several speed, steadiness and Bluetooth functions.

The Milestone continues to be a strong competitor in the Android market, chiefly since hardware QWERTY devices are in comparatively short supply compared to only touchscreen cellphones.