With a large android 2.0 userbase I'm surprise they're not trying to make the X5 compatible with the 2.0. I don't think it requires that much effort to make it compatible.

From what I understand, the complication is not at the translation, the problem is because of the maps. For taiwan papago, the map comes with the software and install onto the phone. But for the Malaysian version, we copy the maps into the SDCard (because we use MFM instead of maps from papago), and there are major changes about SDCard access from 1.5 and 1.5+.

Not sure how they are going to solve this issue though.