What is the big deal with gingerbread?

[peterjmay]

For the dhd? Whats the benefits?

 

[El Presidente]

Better battery life, it's a tad smoother and they tweaked the audio output a little.

There were others, but I can't remember off the top of my head, sorry.

 

[landovr]

This is what they put on the telus website.

Better power management for improved battery life and device performance
Ability to make calls over the internet with Voice over IP (VoIP), when connected to Wi-Fi
More Google

 

[RED_]

Froyo was the big update, gingerbread was just to refine it and make it smoother. On top of those mentioned above i think Copy and pasting from the keyboard was added and NFC support but that doesn't concern us.

ICS will be another small upgrade i think which merges Honeycomb with Gingerbread. Then tablets & phones will use the same OS IIRC.