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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 .
EVOeli said:
What are the actual visual differences between 2.2 and 2.3?
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My favorite change is when you press a spot in text, say in an email you're composing, a little icon appears that lets you drag the cursor to the proper spot (sort of looks like the icon for the newer copy functionality). If you've ever tried in vain to place the cursor within a word to make a correction, you'll appreciate this. And supposedly the newest GB allows video chat via Google Talk, so that's nice.
 
jrstinkfish said:
My favorite change is when you press a spot in text, say in an email you're composing, a little icon appears that lets you drag the cursor to the proper spot (sort of looks like the icon for the newer copy functionality). If you've ever tried in vain to place the cursor within a word to make a correction, you'll appreciate this.
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Love that too, so much easier.
 
Take a look at the official release notes for Android 2.3:
Android 2.3 Platform Highlights | Android Developers

Summary:

1) UI improvements, easier to learn, more polish, black background on light text for new aesthetic and power savings on OLED-based screens

2) improved text input. easier to move cursor, easier to copy/paste, predictive dictionary layout improvement, multitouch (shift-char for caps) keyboard, and other usability improvements

3) improvement in power management. power consumption app is more granular about what is using power

4) Internet calling via SIP

5) NFC support

6) downloads application to manage your downloads

7) camera app allows switching between front/back cameras

8) tons of API improvements targeted at game developers

9) support for more audio formats (AAC and AMR) as well as DSP/equalizer controls for output audio source
 
How can Google come out with Froyo then gingerbread then honey comb/ice cream and only half the phones are running Froyo and will be stuck at Froyo forever so is the evo getting gingerbread or not like what the fu** !!!???? Is anyone else wondering this!??!?
 
Honeycomb is only supported on tablets, Ice Cream was last said to come out Q4, and the Evo is supposed to get Gingerbread very soon, so no, I'm not wondering that.
 
I just wish these updates would get pushed out more quickly and a fu*****list was posted somewhere from Google stating which phones would receive which updates cause this way people would buy the phone that is getting updated instead of this guessing game/waiting game bull sh@@!!!!!
 
...or just run over to cyanogen and get all your wishes and desires fulfilled on time, and you don't even have to deal with HTC!.... or all the crap they bog the phone out with...
 
Thefoodman52 said:
...or just run over to cyanogen and get all your wishes and desires fulfilled on time, and you don't even have to deal with HTC!.... or all the crap they bog the phone out with...
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Yes, Cyanogen kicks ass. But its not HTC bogging down the phone, its the carrier, and Google that add the crap in the software. Mostly the carrier.
 
Well, we did beat them to Froyo, so this should give them something to crow about. I spoke to a staff member last night who got a leaked version for his DX and he says it's pretty sweet, but not officially out just yet.

Some of the DX guys are just now learning that the Evo has a FFC - the DX evidently doesn't.

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Confusion abounds on rev numbers. Eclair was 2.0 and 2.1, Honeycomb was 3.0 and 3.1 and there was talk that Gingerbread would be 2.3 and also 2.4.

The lastest official Gingerbread rev is 2.3.4 tho, as you mentioned.
 
EarlyMon said:
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Confusion abounds on rev numbers. Eclair was 2.0 and 2.1, Honeycomb was 3.0 and 3.1 and there was talk that Gingerbread would be 2.3 and also 2.4.

The lastest official Gingerbread rev is 2.3.4 tho, as you mentioned.
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who says there is no issues with fragmentation? :p
 
archercc said:
Never officially because sprint has moved on to other phones. Since the Evo3d has come out Sprint wont update the Evo again (save for some critical flaw)
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It's so great that this forum has corporate insiders like 'archercc' to be able to come on and give us definitive and absolute statements like this. Other forums just have posers acting like they are 'in the know'. Ignorant wannabes who simply assume that their own logic is so sound that the rest of the world MUST adhere to it.

My guess is that 'archercc' must in fact be Keith Cowan, Sprint's President of Strategy and Corporate initiative. Using my own infallible logic that only someone this high up in Sprint strategy could speak so definitively on the roadmap for their up till now flagship phone.

We all need to give some rep to 'archercc' to make sure we keep these insiders here on our forum.

Unless of course 'archercc' actually is in no way associated with Sprint corporate strategy, and just assumes his ironclad grasp of Sprint's inner working and decision making gives him this clarity and certainty.

In which case my response would be this. "Sprint wont give the EVO Gingerbread? WANT TO BET ON THAT?" :p
 
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