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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 .
sparky7474 said:
Ditto! I mainly use MS, but if Android can make it on a pc, So long MS... HELLO ANDROID! but until then... MS... I think whoever HTC has on their developemnt team, that man or woman, either got a huge raise or has stock option sense they decided to use the linux OS. GOOD FOR THEM!
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That was actually a genius or two at Google. Smart move.

Not to get TOO FAR off-topic - but you might check out what's happening in tablets - especially the Notion Ink, that's the one I've got my eye on.

Following that, you might share my conjecture about why HTC recently put out a call for jobs for engineers experienced with displays, especially e-ink.

Keep an eye at Tablets & MIDs - Android Forums to stay up on some of the new things coming.

Edit - join me there at http://androidforums.com/tablets-mids/236812-adam-tablet.html or PM me anytime!
 
dakidobf said:
Nothing like some good old fashioned speculation to get everyone all riled up! lol. I think the real question is, will there be a new Android and maybe even Windows 7 device out by June of next year. Because if there is an Evo 2 of some sort by June(when most of us will be eligible for an upgrade), 90% of us won't give two craps what software is gettin pushed to the Evo
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I second that LOL! When the Evo 2 comes out people will be blown away at some dual core/HOneyComb goodness they will forget that the current Evo even existed. :D
 
Right now, it's all up to speculation - good speculation - but speculation.

Gingerbread is already more than its official speculations of just a few months ago.

Odds that anyone is releasing a dual-core SoC phone with no upgrade roadmap for dual-core support?

In engineering terms: Zip.dink-nada
 
I don't know if I'm reading into this too much but when I updated dolphin hd yesterday it said that part of the update was to prepare for the christmas present we were about to receive. Gingerbread maybe?
 
edlex said:
I don't know if I'm reading into this too much but when I updated dolphin hd yesterday it said that part of the update was to prepare for the christmas present we were about to receive. Gingerbread maybe?
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Dolphin HD isn't exclusive to the Evo so everyone who has that app on their phone saw the same message.
 
Honeycomb is so close on the heels of Gingerbread (Rumor), I don't see how, as a former Hero owner, HTC and Sprint would bother with Gingerbread at all.
 
I think we'll probably get Gingerbread but from what I've read it's nothing spectacular. I was listening to the Engadget Mobile podcast and they talked about the Nexus S that has Gingerbread and they said it seems a bit snappier, and some of the issues with Froyo were fixed (at least on the Samsung phones). But they seem to think that Honeycomb will be the game changer.

I'm not sure we'll get Honeycomb, I think that will be more for the next generation of phones and tablets that come out next year. I also think we'll get the new Sense UI as well.
 
bearballz said:
I think we'll probably get Gingerbread but from what I've read it's nothing spectacular. I was listening to the Engadget Mobile podcast and they talked about the Nexus S that has Gingerbread and they said it seems a bit snappier, and some of the issues with Froyo were fixed (at least on the Samsung phones). But they seem to think that Honeycomb will be the game changer.

I'm not sure we'll get Honeycomb, I think that will be more for the next generation of phones and tablets that come out next year. I also think we'll get the new Sense UI as well.
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I bet Honeycomb will be on the Evo 2. :)

Im looking forward for it! :D
 
italygrl1 said:
Me neither and that is why i was wondering if there is a leak...Someone who has verizon with the droid 2 told me they got their update.It seems sprint is always the last to have everything.
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Whoa, nellie!

The Gingerbread code just recently entered the AOSP (Android Open Source Project) repository and the first and only phone on the market with a vendor supported Gingerbread is the Nexus S - released last Thursday to the buying public.

As far as the Droid 2 having their update... uh, no.

The Droid 2's 2.3.20 firmware and the Droid X's 2.3.40 firmware are - drumroll - their internal numbers for Froyo.

Just like we're at 3.70 - that's our vendor's revision code - doesn't mean that we're at Honeycomb.

The Evos and the Droid 2 are at Froyo - Android 2.2.

There are unofficial roms floating around with Gingerbread - some more defective than others right now - but zero handsets beside the Nexus S have an official Gingerbread.

The Evo was the second phone on the market to get a vendor-supported Froyo back at the beginning of August, right after Google's own Nexus One.

The Droid 2 hurried up and got there 3 months after us.

And given how quickly we got Froyo and how slowly other did (while others are still waiting for it), I'm predicting that we're getting Gingerbread first.

So, tell your Droid 2 friends to straighten up and fly right. :D :D

http://nexus404.com/Blog/2010/12/15/droid-x-droid-incredible-droid-2-gingerbread-update-not-so-fast-says-verizon-verzion-not-sure-“which-devices-will-get-gingerbread-within-the-coming-months”/
 
AOSP custom roms will probably come out before Sense custom roms. Due to that dev's will have to wait for HTC to release their own Gingerbread/Sense source code. I like Sense so I will wait for a Sense Custom rom that includes Gingerbread and hopefully a Spice of the new Sense. Sounds yummy!
 
italygrl1 said:
Me neither and that is why i was wondering if there is a leak...Someone who has verizon with the droid 2 told me they got their update.It seems sprint is always the last to have everything.
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The funny thing about this is that is is false (hear me out). So they think they have 2.3 but they really don't, therefore there cannot be any diffences noted in the OS. So then, if it is exactly as it was before (remember they THINK this is Gingerbread), then why does it matter to them that they have gingerbread or not?
 
Have you guys not SEEN gingerbread or researched it at all? It IS different, very noticeably in some areas. Touch sensitivity has gotten better as well as speed in other areas . Battery life is also reportedly better. The UI has been given some nice improvements as well such as more space between keys on the keyboard, power-off animation, new dialer screen....

Seems to be a lot of people dismissing this version without knowing how or why its better. I for one, can not wait till this comes out as a ROM... (fingers crossed)
 
Easy, I'm pretty sure you misread that post entirely.

That slice of the discussion was about people who don't have GB, think they do, and aren't noticing the (non-existent) difference.

There's only a few reasons that I can think of for people without GB to get excited that they have it when they don't - and it's not excitement over performance because they can think they have GB all they want, but they're running Froyo.
 
maybe sometime in January, although I think Sprint missed the boat on this one, would have been huge to get the 2.3 update by the end of the year, would have given them a lot of momentum going into 2011
 
Well I wasn't referring directly to that post, although it WAS kind of confusingly worded... I was just talking about the people here who aren't even looking forward to it, I mean that their deal nobody's forcing them to, but I think there are plenty of improvements to be excited about, even if honeycomb IS supposedly right around the corner...
I was playing with a nexus S at best buy yesterday and it did feel noticeably quicker than my EVO...
 
Androidalltheway said:
maybe sometime in January, although I think Sprint missed the boat on this one, would have been huge to get the 2.3 update by the end of the year, would have given them a lot of momentum going into 2011
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Well, the code base was only in the Android Open Source Repository for a few weeks - add to that time for driver and kernel updates, binding wtih Sense - oh, and by the way, that's happening while they're rolling out a major Sense update.

Understand that people with the Captivate are going into the end of the year hoping to get Froyo soon - if they have to wait until Jan3 , they're a full 5 months behind.

The game changers are coming at CES in January - I can them not pushing anything major until then.

coldfuzion said:
Well I wasn't referring directly to that post, although it WAS kind of confusingly worded... I was just talking about the people here who aren't even looking forward to it, I mean that their deal nobody's forcing them to, but I think there are plenty of improvements to be excited about, even if honeycomb IS supposedly right around the corner...
I was playing with a nexus S at best buy yesterday and it did feel noticeably quicker than my EVO...
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For the longest time, the Gingerbread info said it would be a UI unification only. The news that includes performance updates is much newer info.

No one's required to be excited about this - we've yet to see what form of packaging with Gingerbread we'll get - if we get it - with the new Sense.
 
Welcome to the forums!

The tech bloggers are speculating that the Evo is on the gingerbread upgrade list - we think so, but no one knows that yet.

And yes, you can get some port of gingerbread early from the developer community, but for an official Sprint/HTC update that will take longer, assuming it's coming.
 
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