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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 .
Boy wouldn't that piss off the epic owners that waitied this long just to get 2.2. :)

I will admit though that my wife's epic eats my evo for breakfast with the 2.2 upgrade on it. That really is an amazing phone now.

That said I can't wait to go beyond 2.2 on my evo.
 
Boy wouldn't that piss off the epic owners that waitied this long just to get 2.2. :)

I will admit though that my wife's epic eats my evo for breakfast with the 2.2 upgrade on it. That really is an amazing phone now.

That said I can't wait to go beyond 2.2 on my evo.


i have warm Z...

last night.. my sis's epic battery died and she wanted to borrow my EVO to take a few pics of her daughters...

she takes my phone and walks to the other room...after 15 mins..
she walks back with my evo.. while playing with it...
she says "wow.. your phone is so much easier to use and do things on"...
 
i have warm Z...

last night.. my sis's epic battery died and she wanted to borrow my EVO to take a few pics of her daughters...

she takes my phone and walks to the other room...after 15 mins..
she walks back with my evo.. while playing with it...
she says "wow.. your phone is so much easier to use and do things on"...
:D
 
wow looks like the age of our phone is starting to show.. considering a boat load of the newer phones are already promised 2.3 for a set date.. which is BS since our phone is just as good as all of them listed in terms of hardware and software..


It's a helluva lot easier to start on 2.3 then it is to move forward. Give it time. We will have Gingerbread soon. In the meanwhile enjoy some gingerbread goodies from a custom rom.
 

Interesting!

I went by this, dated earlier:

Once And For All, Android 2.4 is Still Gingerbread | Android Phone Fans

Google’s Dan Morrill: All of Honeycomb’s Features Will Make their Way to Smartphones “in Some Form” | Android Phone Fans

The H said thier info was courtesy of a press release from HTC, but it's not online (yet?) HTC Press Releases - HTC Mobile Phone News & Updates

The wonderful world of rumors. ;)

As for HTC abandoning older phones - maybe not, according to this:

HTC Desire owners face long wait for Android 2.3 Gingerbread update | Crave | CNET UK

That article is saying Q2 for the Desire to get it.

I'm in much less of a hurry to get this update than I was before. Much as I absolutely want it - until the bugs are worked out, no thanks.

drexappeal, I'm beginning to like your math way better than my AOSP math. For whatever reason, there was a delay getting Froyo to the AOSP and when it was there, it was stable. It's looking to me like the AOSP GB commit timed with the Nexus S release was rushed.
 
Important piece of info I just found...

I am setting up a VMware VM for Android development and just got to installing the Android SDK's, where I noticed that 2.3 is NOT an available SDK anymore, 2.3.3 IS available. This should help to explain the delays with the Evo a bit, I hope!

I bet HTC received the 2.3 from Sprint (as other Sprint phones are getting it) and then rejected it for the Evo, because of the 2.3.3 update. At this time HTC is most likely waiting for Sprint to send them the 2.3.3 Sprint rom to be customized for the HTC Evo.

just my speculation, and it makes sense. It is sad they do not tell us what is going on. It would take less time for a PR person to email some info to one of these forum sites than the amount of time they spend taking a leak... and would make a lot of people happy, even if they ould not give more details.
 
Important piece of info I just found...

I am setting up a VMware VM for Android development and just got to installing the Android SDK's, where I noticed that 2.3 is NOT an available SDK anymore, 2.3.3 IS available. This should help to explain the delays with the Evo a bit, I hope!

I bet HTC received the 2.3 from Sprint (as other Sprint phones are getting it) and then rejected it for the Evo, because of the 2.3.3 update. At this time HTC is most likely waiting for Sprint to send them the 2.3.3 Sprint rom to be customized for the HTC Evo.

just my speculation, and it makes sense. It is sad they do not tell us what is going on. It would take less time for a PR person to email some info to one of these forum sites than the amount of time they spend taking a leak... and would make a lot of people happy, even if they ould not give more details.

You said other Sprint phones are getting 2.3? Which ones? I haven't heard of any Sprint phones getting 2.3 yet.
 
Welcome!

Truth is - we have no official word, but are having a bit of fun speculating. ;)

And just imagine how NOT fun it would've been if we were still speculating about a FROYO release like the Epic owners were as short as a few weeks ago (and even some, that aren't doing the manual update, are still waiting for the OTA to be re-released w/ fixes), rather than Gingerbread.:D
 
And just imagine how NOT fun it would've been if we were still speculating about a FROYO release like the Epic owners were as short as a few weeks ago (and even some, that aren't doing the manual update, are still waiting for the OTA to be re-released w/ fixes), rather than Gingerbread.:D


duck......
 
Truth be told, I was really anxious about upgrades when I had my Moment, and it was full of bugs. But with my EVO, there's nothing really wrong with it... so a new version of Android isn't a big deal to me. I have 'stock' root, so aside from battery boosts I don't need anything from this phone I can't already get.
 
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