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 Sean Brunett
Feb 23, 2011
A minor update to Android's Gmail app has hit the Market that fixes custom labels and improves copy/paste in Gingerbread. If you have custom labels in Gmail with custom colors, they wouldn't pr...
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by Alex Dobie
Feb 22, 2011
Good news for long-suffering Nexus One owners - Android 2.3.3 Gingerbread has finally begun rolling out for the original Nexus and its big brother, the Nexus S over-the-air. For the Nexus S, 2.3...
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by Alex Dobie
Feb 21, 2011
A post on the official Twitter account of British carrier Three indicates that the original HTC Desire will receive an official update to Gingerbread, confirming rumors from MWC earlier this wee...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 21, 2011
One of our favorite drinking games is "Guess the OS version." Someone plops down a phone in front of the "Roach" (the person who's guessing), and they have to, well, guess. Wh...
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by Chris Kerrigan
Feb 17, 2011
When it comes to CyanogenMod, Samsung Galaxy S owners have been mostly left in the dark. Fortunately, those days may be coming to end. Some very dedicated developers over at XDA have been hard a...
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by Chris Parsons
Feb 16, 2011
We've heard plenty of rumors about Ice Cream Sandwich being the next version of Android to hit phones. Even at this years Mobile World Congress Eric Schmidt himself was dropping "I" version...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 16, 2011
Gingerbread has been ported over to the LG Optimus S. Using the CyanogenMod 7 codebase, users have been able to get a pretty darn functional version of Gingerbread up and running, long before an...
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by Alex Dobie
Feb 15, 2011
HTC has confirmed via Twitter that its new Incredible S will run Android 2.2 out of the box, but will receive an update to version 2.4 shortly after launch. The Desire S and Wildfire S, however, ...
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by Chris Kerrigan
Feb 15, 2011
Live here at Mobile World Congress, we just got word from Eric Schmidt that the next version of Android will combine the feature set of Honeycomb and Gingerbread. Schmidt didn't give any details...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 15, 2011
News, theories, and phones supposedly running Android 2.4 have been kicking around for a while now, and we're seeing it mentioned again today from HTC. Word is that 2.4 is still Gingerbread, and...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 13, 2011
Images of the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S 2 and Samsung's 10.1 inch Honeycomb tablet (Tab 2?) have surfaced on Samsung Hub. According to them, Samsung has officially confirmed both devices. ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 11, 2011
Still hanging on to your OG Droid? Here's some news you're going to love -- Peter Alfonso, of Bugless Beast fame, has released a mostly AOSP build of Gingerbread (Android 2.3.2) for your cl...
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by Alex Dobie
Feb 07, 2011
Android 2.4 will retain the "Gingerbread" codename and bridge compatibility with "dual-core" apps written for Android 3.0 Honeycomb, according to rumors attributed to a sourc...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 04, 2011
Sony Ericsson hasn't even announced the Neo, but that didn't stop the good folks at Techradar from getting their hands on a unit. Formerly known by the name Hallon, the SE Neo is the Android ver...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 03, 2011
Youtube link for mobile viewing Reason No. 768 why this job kicks ass -- Field trips to Mountain View, Calif., to see the official Android statues. (One more gratuitous pic after the break.)
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 03, 2011
Google just released the latest figures on the number of Android variants in the wild. For the two weeks ending Feb. 2, 89.8 percent of devices are on Android 2.1 and up. Realistically, that means An...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 31, 2011
We've got no doubt that Verizon and Motorola are working on bringing Gingerbread to the Droid X. We said as much in our predictions of which phones will get Android 2.3 upgrades. And so it's little s...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 27, 2011
Welp, there's proof that a white-backed Samsung Nexus S is more than just a pretty render. The Next Web was sent this pic that reportedly is of a phone headed to Vodafone in the UK, and possibly the ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 26, 2011
Whoopsie. You know that Sony Ericsson Xperia Play/Playstation Phone/PSP Phone thingy everyone's expecting to see at Mobile World Congress in a few weeks? Well, there it is, in the hot little hands of...
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by Chris Parsons
Jan 20, 2011
If you're still rather ticked off at Motorola today and swearing to never purchase their devices again maybe some of these HTC devices might make you feel a little better about the whole situation. A ...
