Gingerbread -- Android 2.3 -- despite being a "dot" release (aka minor), actually brought some fairly major changes to the Android platform. (It also brought us the statue you see above).
Cosmetically, nothing changed that much. The notification bar at the top of the screen went black, and the signal strength and battery indicators turned green. Many had been hoping Gingerbread would contain the handiwork of Matias Duarte, who led Palm's webOS UI and now is user experience director for Android. But it looks like we'll have to wait for Ice Cream Sandwich for that one.
Another big question you'll ask is "Will my phone be upgraded to Gingerbread?" For the first half of 2011, far too many phones launched without it. But slowly, our unofficial list of phones is starting to see upgrades.
More Gingerbread stories
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by Jared DiPane
Jul 01, 2011
Back at CES Vizio told us that they would be releasing an Android tablet this year, and they have held to that with an 8-inch Android 2.3-powered tablet that is now available for pre-order. We saw the...
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by Alex Dobie
Jul 01, 2011
UK retailer Play.com has just added a pre-order listing for Sony Ericsson's recently-announced Xperia Ray, pricing the diminutive phone at £349.99, and showing an Aug. 15 release date. The Ray b...
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by Alex Dobie
Jul 01, 2011
After previously launching on Three, the HTC Flyer tablet will be on its way to T-Mobile UK later this month, as indicated by an update on the British network's "coming soon" page. There's n...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jun 30, 2011
Perhaps you just saw our rundown of the Verizon Motorola Droid 3 specs. Did you catch the Easter egg? According to our leak, it appears that the Motorola Droid 2 Global (and presumably its CDMA-only c...
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by Chris Parsons
Jun 30, 2011
Having only recently picked up an original Samsung Galaxy Tab for myself, I can relate to the many users out there that have one and are not currently running Gingerbread on it. Fortunately I was able...
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by Alex Dobie
Jun 30, 2011
As promised, HTC has offered Desire owners some news on the status of the phone's Android 2.3 Gingerbread update, saying they've begun testing on it this week. In a post on its official Facebook...
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by Chris Parsons
Jun 29, 2011
Despite the fact that it is coming over a month later then that of the unlocked versions available in the UK, the HTC Desire HD on the Three UK was seemingly held back from getting its Android 2.3 Gin...
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by Chris Parsons
Jun 27, 2011
Youtube link for mobile viewing Now that S-OFF can be obtained on the Droid Incredible 2 we've started to see some custom ROMs pop up for the device and developers have been hard at work in an effort...
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by Chris Parsons
Jun 27, 2011
Youtube link for mobile viewing Things have been pretty quiet on the update front for Samsung Droid Charge owners as of late, unlike the HTC Thunderbolt there hasn't been any leaked radio files, no l...
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by Alex Dobie
Jun 27, 2011
After delays resulting from the recent earthquakes and tsunami in Japan, Sony Ericsson's Xperia Neo is finally starting to see widespread availability, as the handset launches in the UK today. We've b...
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by Jared DiPane
Jun 26, 2011
If you have an LG Optimus One, and have been waiting for that long rumored Gingerbread update to finally become a reality it appears as though your time has come. Reports are rolling in of official Gi...
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by Alex Dobie
Jun 24, 2011
The plot thickens. Last week HTC kicked up a bit of a storm by announcing that the Desire wouldn't be getting an official Android 2.3 Gingerbread update due to memory constraints, saying there w...
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by Alex Dobie
Jun 24, 2011
Three is the first UK network to announce that it'll be carrying Sony Ericsson's new Xperia Ray when it's released sometime during the third quarter. The Xperia Ray takes the tried-and-true internals ...
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by Chris Parsons
Jun 23, 2011
A pleasant surprise has just popped up on my Telus HTC Desire HD -- Android 2.3 Gingerbread. The update itself comes in at 99.68MB and while it's not going to bring Sense 3.0 to the Desire HD it's sti...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jun 21, 2011
How do you make the HTC Flyer even better? Pop in a Wimax radio, put it on Sprint, and call it the Sprint HTC EVO View 4G. What you see above you is the second version of the Flye...
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by Jared DiPane
Jun 20, 2011
We all know, the Samsung Fascinate has not been known as the device to receive the quickest updates, heck it feels like just yesterday that we saw Froyo land on the device officially. While many woul...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jun 20, 2011
Youtube link for mobile viewing If at any point over the past year you would have told me that the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 would actually get an update to Gingerbread, I'd likely have laughed at you....
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by Phil Nickinson
Jun 18, 2011
Looks like the continued wait for the latest HTC ThunderBolt software update -- the one that everybody initially thought would just be to fix those blasted reboots -- may be well worth the wait. ...
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by Chris Parsons
Jun 17, 2011
Another Gingerbread build has leaked out. This time around the Samsung Epic 4G gets updated to EF02, and the reports thus far have been looking good. The verdict on whether or not this build can be ro...
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by Chris Parsons
Jun 17, 2011
Although Verizon is good to go on the Android 2.3 Gingerbread update for the Droid 2 Global, Motorola isn't. They now have stepped in to say that the update is certainly not rolling out at this point ...
