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Gingerbread (aka Android 2.3) on Evo!

Are you excited for Gingerbread?!?

  • Hell yeah!

    Votes: 22 81.5%
  • Hell no!

    Votes: 5 18.5%

  • Total voters
    27
  • Poll closed .
Well, that sucks. I'll be buying an evo soon. Given it's age right now, I'd hate to be stuck with it for two years.

i would definitely hold off a couple of months.. a new phone is going to be debuted at sprints press conference tonight. and their will be a lot of new phones out by this summer, most likely including a sequel device to the evo
 
From Androidcentral.com

"According to our source, the release date of version 2.4 has been brought forward to ensure that dual-core apps designed for Honeycomb (v3.0) will be able to work with single-core devices running v2.4. Currently, our man on the inside says that
 
I don't think a dual display phone is going toi entice me to drop the evo just yet. It's a neat concept and one that I think isa pretty useful, but not so groundbreaking. I'll have to play with one to see for sure.

Interesting discussion about 2.4 too. I haven't heard any buzz about it at all yet. It would be sweet to jump right past 2.3...
 
"cool"...but not what I want. Dual screen = more battery use...and it has an even smaller battery than the Evo. It also has a 1 ghz snapdragon (although 2nd gen I assume as opposed to our 1st gen). I want some dual CORE not dual screen. I'll stick with my Evo a while longer I guess
 
i would definitely hold off a couple of months.. a new phone is going to be debuted at sprints press conference tonight. and their will be a lot of new phones out by this summer, most likely including a sequel device to the evo

I don't have much of a choice. I have a t-mobile tap right now, so I might as well not have a phone at all. It's difficult to hold off when you don't have anything to hold you over in the first place.
 
"cool"...but not what I want. Dual screen = more battery use...and it has an even smaller battery than the Evo. It also has a 1 ghz snapdragon (although 2nd gen I assume as opposed to our 1st gen). I want some dual CORE not dual screen. I'll stick with my Evo a while longer I guess
+1
Unless they can reduce that screen by screen hinge-gap to 1mm. Then i might be interested.

I went into a sprint store and asked, he told me he has heard nothing about it
It will be a week or two before Sprint stores know about their own announcement. It has always been that way.

In the past it took some stores weeks to realize they were supposed to be doing in-store updates to the Samsung Moment. Even though they all received the software at the same time. It really is baffling.
 
Now that the official prediction time has past.
Explain the serving the monkeys good coffee analogy.
Somebody pick a new date.
Everybody else keep that positive thinking going.
 
Now that the official prediction time has past.
Explain the serving the monkeys good coffee analogy.
Somebody pick a new date.
Everybody else keep that positive thinking going.

Less than a week to go before my prediction date proves false - or true...

Wellsir - I fully expect it to be pinned to an HTC door by the end of the day. ;)

Well, if you don't have it by this time next week, you get to point and laugh and me. :D

Earlymon has till Wednesday..

then I egg his car! who's in with me?


just ordered a truck full of rotten eggs and tomatoes...
delivery.. Thurday... everybody meet at Earlymon's place.

:D
 
Now that the official prediction time has past.
Explain the serving the monkeys good coffee analogy.
Somebody pick a new date.
Everybody else keep that positive thinking going.

If you mean my official prediction time - it was on or before the 8th. If it leaks out tonight - as Froyo leaked out end of July - I was right.

At this point though - I am concerned that I was incorrect.

Any Evo update may have to be re-cast light of Thunderbolt deliveries.

And dan330 - as for those virtual eggs you're so worked up about - well, you do what you think is best. I was at least (probably ;)) right about my post making it up on HTC doors, so I don't get the _whole_ problem you're having.

BTW - Sprint plan discussions moved to (broken link)

And may merge with another ongoing thread on that...

EDIT - One of my compadres merged it (as I'd suggested) and the normally-working redirects aren't working normally.

It's now here - http://androidforums.com/sprint/264214-sprint-premier-gold-yearly-upgrades.html
 
tick tock.. mouse ran up the clock.
tick tock...time is running out.
tick tock...your car get spotted...




:P just messing with you.
I still have hope for by end of Feb.. mabye before our epic friends get Froyo on Feb 21. :D :P
 
I'm gonna make a pretty bold, but logical guess/prediction on this one. Since the official Froyo update is rumored to release for the Epic around the 21st, I say the Epic AND the EVO get updated to Gingerbread on or around that date (i.e. Epic skips Froyo and goes straight to Gingerbread).

LOL..This is completely baseless, but that's just my gut feeling.
 
EarlyMon, are you gonna give us another bold prediction? Just asking......

You won't be able to stop me! :D

My last guess was a straight projection based on time from AOSP (Android open source repository) release to our Froyo vs the time of the Gingerbread AOSP submission to present.

Now, I'm trying to decide what effect the Mobile World Congress, the Thunderbolt and the other carrier moves might be having on our timing.

At present, I've got elves and agents beating the hidden paths to see what my next best guess might be.

I'll have my neck out no later than week's end - count on it. ;)

PS - http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2011/02/android-233-platform-new-nfc.html

I remain completely skeptical that 2.3 will be skipped in favor of the rumored 2.4 update, but...
 
I'm okay with my phone, but I hate how carriers, google, and manufacturers work together to update the OS. You would think that they would get their act together at least to try and compete with apple, but I'm figuring they would be happy if you would just buy another phone with the new OS.

They keep me as a customer because I don't really like the iphone and the costs associated with it. I would love to buy a phone directly from google if one worked on sprint.
 
I'm okay with my phone, but I hate how carriers, google, and manufacturers don't work together to update the OS.

Fixed that for you. :D ;)

I think - operative word, think - that there's not a strong commercial licensing agreement between Google and others on Android because of its open source nature (I'm sure that license is sufficiently strong). I think that weak licensing is part of the incentive for makers to go with Android. (Disclaimer - I know _zero_ about that, haven't tried looking because if such licensing exists, it's likely to be sealed behind corporate intellectual property secrecy anyway.)

So - either by accident or design, Google's not driving makers to update.

That leaves the makers and the carriers and that's gotta be a chicken dance that I can only imagine. Sprint could want an Evo update - but HTC could want to protect the Thunderbolt launch. Or HTC could want the update - but Sprint could want preference given to other phones.

You would think that they would get their act together at least to try and compete with apple, but I'm figuring they would be happy if you would just buy another phone with the new OS.

I think that's possibly too harsh to level across the board at all makers.

The Evo's had 5 updates and one OS update since last June (more if you count unofficial leaks) - iOS 4 has had 6 in the same period - pretty close, actually. That, plus the Android alternative is gaining significantly on market share, especially in the US.

They keep me as a customer because I don't really like the iphone and the costs associated with it. I would love to buy a phone directly from google if one worked on sprint.

Presuming you're an Evo owner, then you have the next best alternative - rooting and CM7. Great stuff, cutting edge - you'll lose Sense, but you'd lose that with Google phone anyways.

I'd be surprised if the Evo were NOT cut off from revision updates at some point. I would think that's less to do with driving to new sales than it is economy of scale: when the numbers say a phone's owner base is in decline, and it's likely to be on its last legs (from the existing user base subjecting it to typical hard phone-use) then it doesn't pay to go through the QA nightmares for diminishing returns. Future OS upgrades will simply be predicated on hardware that might make ours seem arcane by comparison.

Again - salvation will come in the form in the independent devs, who may eventually drop upgrade upgrade support for the same reasons.

We've ridden a wave with the best of the Desire-class phones from 2010 - now relevance will come from OS updates - but just as with with classes of hardware for Windows or OS X, those won't go on forever.
 
My prediction was for the release date.



I have a feeling that conversation would be like this:

HTC: We have a major release ready to upgrade the Evo and Evo Shift.

Sprint: Well, we'll have to hold off on that because we're busy with Samsung.

HTC: And in the face of demand from Verizon and T-Mobile for our handsets, you're asking us to wait on your chicken dance with Samsung? Awfully nice supply chain we have for you, sure hope it doesn't have a little accident.

Sprint: Ummmm... I misspoke. When would you be wanting that update pushed out?

HTC: Just in time to make EarlyMon LHA0 oughta do just fine.


Lmfao
 
Earlymon, thanks for the detailed response. It is very good information. My issue is not how many updates each phone has had, but knowing an improvement has been made on an OS and I don't have access to it, and may never have access to it. I understand if the OS needs better hardware, but I doubt we will see an OS which needs better hardware than the evo has for quite some time.

Fortunately, competition will at least help in this area.
 
if you are rooted.. there are custom ROMs with GB...

I am rooted.. but I want GB with New Sense.... so I am waiting :)
 
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