2.3 Gingerbread

[Andy in NY]

For reasons that I can't (yet) fathom, my HTC Desire has just updated to 2.29.405.2, which seems to be somewhere between Froyo 2.2 and Gingerbread 2.3! I haven't so far checked what differences, subtle or otherwise, there are between this version and 2.2.

What next .... ???

thats probably SYSTEM version. my D2 is 2.3.20, but ANDROID version is 2.2

 

[MR_2FNGRZ]

Well guys and girls, the ports have already begun. Check this thread out over at XDA Developers. Although not an official release or FULLY working port, Gingerbread IS on the Eris.

[GINGERBREAD] KaosGingerbread V2 - xda-developers

 

[adi19956]

How do you know this?,have you had some hands on experience with gingerbread?

haha I wish! no Google announced it when they revealed it to us

 

[smalld]

I hope android makes the software update across the board like apple does. It should not be 1 phone here and 2 phones there. it should be all or nothing...

 

[adi19956]

I hope android makes the software update across the board like apple does. It should not be 1 phone here and 2 phones there. it should be all or nothing...

we'd all love to see that, but it isn't Android's decision. It's the hardware makers' like HTC, Motorola and Samsung, for example

 

[jradicle11]

I hope android makes the software update across the board like apple does. It should not be 1 phone here and 2 phones there. it should be all or nothing...

In a perfect world...

Then again, in a perfect world people would be able to choose which UI they want on their phone.

 

[adi19956]

plus they have little incentive to do so. Why would you ever buy a new phone if yours always got the latest updates? they want you to buy a new phone, make them more money

 

[ylexot]

I hope android makes the software update across the board like apple does. It should not be 1 phone here and 2 phones there. it should be all or nothing...

iOS 4 runs on the original iPhone?

 

[adi19956]

iOS 4 runs on the original iPhone?

no

 

[smalld]

no

Lol good point, never thought of that.

 

[adi19956]

@smalld neither did I when you said it

 

[Abdur]

Meh, but still the iOS has a 2-3 year update guarantee, Android, with some providers will get 2-3 updates at most.

 

[sremick]

I hope android makes the software update across the board like apple does. It should not be 1 phone here and 2 phones there. it should be all or nothing...

That'd be like all Windows computers getting Windows 7 pushed out to them when it was released by Microsoft. Dell, HP... they just all get a push direct from Microsoft.

Think about how much of a disaster that'd be. It wouldn't work. Too much variation.

 

[lordofthereef]

iOS 4 runs on the original iPhone?

No. That phone is also going on 4 years old now... Huge difference between that, and say a Droid 1, which just hit a year and may not get 2.3

 

[adi19956]

I hope android makes the software update across the board like apple does. It should not be 1 phone here and 2 phones there. it should be all or nothing...

if you look at the Nexus series, that's what the idea is. There's almost as many of them as iPhones now, so it's similar. If you want all the updates get a Nexus One or S

 

[Odinos]

Most likely the nexus line of devices.

*cheer*

 

[Audiobear]

For reasons that I can't (yet) fathom, my HTC Desire has just updated to 2.29.405.2, which seems to be somewhere between Froyo 2.2 and Gingerbread 2.3! I haven't so far checked what differences, subtle or otherwise, there are between this version and 2.2.

What next .... ???

I've found one difference of a sort. In v2.2, the FM Radio app wouldn't work: in v2.29 it's now working properly

 

[zerocool79346]

I'd like to point out that the Eris community has been running Froyo flawlessly for the last month or so thanks to the devs over at XDA, and already have a port of Gingerbread (though it's obviously far from a daily ROM yet) so the minimum spec bull is exactly that, bull.

 

[Hunterbeav]

I went to sprint today and asked them when 2.3 would be available, he told me not anytime soon, so at this point, its nice 2.3 is out, but unfortunate for evo owners that we are not getting it for a while

What if the guy you talked to at sprint don't know his rear end from a hole in the ground. I mean is this guy from a random sprint store the all knowing power behind the power at sprint. I talked to a guy on the street that told me that the moon will be colliding with earth tomorrow are you worried lol

 

[SamuraiBigEd]

I talked to a guy on the street that told me that the moon will be colliding with earth tomorrow are you worried lol

I dunno...was he a random Sprint employee?

 

[shawn1224]

Its faster than most 1GZ Snapdragon phones (Evo, Droids, HD2)

The G2, technically, has TWO processors, each at 800 MHZ. Its actually 2 cores, and both can be over clocked to 1.6GeeZees.


We can make it stronger, faster, better. We HAVE the technology.

Dude, the G2 is not dual core, stop your lying.

 

[Medion]

Dude, the G2 is not dual core, stop your lying.

Read his 2nd post on the matter. Changed his tune the first time he was called out, but made up more information. Since I've corrected that misinformation as well, he hasn't responded.

 

[tylerdurdin]

A friend of mine who works for motorola doing some university relations or some crap said that he feels that alot of us may be getting screwed on updates in the future, and that alot of phones will get updates based on their "kill Sheet" and made an excellent point that the longer companies update software to the most current the longer people will wait to buy new phones. Motorola and Samsung do not make money on making your phone last 3 years. Makes sense, and makes me sad

 

[jradicle11]

Read his 2nd post on the matter. Changed his tune the first time he was called out, but made up more information. Since I've corrected that misinformation as well, he hasn't responded.

He's just misinformed is all.

 

[Hunterbeav]

I dunno...was he a random Sprint employee?

You know I think he was a friend of one, so he must know whats going on