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 Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 07, 2010
Gingerbread ROMs are being ported from the 2.3 SDK device emulator left and right. As of this writing, we have the Eris, the Hero, the Wildfire (pictured, and video after the break), and th...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 07, 2010
While we're all waiting around for the Gingerbread OTA or our Nexus One's, we need some way to pass the time. Bored Android geeks are dangerous Android geeks. Luckily, today's release of t...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 06, 2010
Ask us to define art, and we'll tell you this: We know it when we see it. And tucked deep inside the Android 2.3 Gingerbread SDK is this little ... gem. Can't decide if we're going to have night...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 06, 2010
This is one that most of us here in the United States take for granted. Android 2.2 supports 26 languages, or variants thereof. Android 2.3 Gingerbread more than doubles that at 57. And atop th...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 06, 2010
Android 2.3 Gingerbread and the Samsung Nexus S? You guys are nearly blowing up our forums. We had to order extra hamsters and wheels. It's nuts. It's insane. And it's freakin' awesome. Here...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 06, 2010
There's a lot going on new in Gingerbread from the end user perspective, but there's just as much new behind the scenes, and the real meat and potatoes lies with the core changes that developers can u...
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by Chris Parsons
Dec 06, 2010
If you're wanting to dig into the Android 2.3 user guide to get a better perspective of what, exactly is new within Gingerbread you can now download it via the Google Mobile support page. While most o...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 06, 2010
The Nexus One will be getting its Android 2.3 Gingerbread update "in a few weeks," says Google's Reto Meier. That's in contradiction to at least two unsourced reports today, one of which ha...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 06, 2010
The Samsung Nexus S is now live on Google's phone page, and we finally have full and official specs. Let's break 'em down: Carrier: T-Mobile OS: Android 2.3 Gingerbread Sc...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 06, 2010
Gingerbread is finally here, folks. Google has just released the SDK -- that's the software development kit, the building blocks for the OS. We're about to dive headfirst into this guy, but here...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 05, 2010
The question on everybody's lips going into this week is "Will we finally see Gingerbread?" Our answer:Maybe. Let's recap:Google's Andy Rubin is speaking Monday at All Things D. And there's ...
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by Chris Parsons
Dec 03, 2010
The last time we got a sneak peak at the Playstation phone, it came courtesy of good ol' Mr. Blurry cam. That of course left some folks out there still questioning it's existence and still feeling...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 03, 2010
We're hearing over and over that Gingerbread will bring some UI changes to Android, but not a lot of details just yet. We've seen some hints of the new interface changes courtesy of Google HK, a...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 02, 2010
We're still waiting on an announcement for Gingerbread, but damned if Android 2.3 hasn't shown up in a demo of voice search (in Cantonese) on the GOOGLEinHK YouTube channel. The video likely wil...
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by Kyle Gibb
Dec 01, 2010
Well, what do we have here? The Sony PlayStation Phone has made a brief appearance in Greece. Perhaps most interesting is that the phone was running Android 2.3 aka Gingerbread, which still has...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 30, 2010
Update: The picture in question has been removed from public view on Picasa, and we've removed it here at the owner's request.Maybe we're all just getting so tired of waiting for the Samsung Nex...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 29, 2010
The popular Dolphin Browser HD got an update recently, and there's an interesting tidbit in the changelog (thanks again, Google, for adding that). The line in question is "Fix UI compa...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 27, 2010
Gingerbread news More Nexus S Gingerbread pics and specs leak Hey, look, it's the Nexus S again Gingerbread reportedly spotted in the wilds of Belgium Hardware news Droid 2 Global o...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 27, 2010
Let the teasing continue: Christophe writes in again to say he's spotted another build of Android 2.3 Gingerbread that reportedly is pinging his app. This time it's GRH47B (the previous sighting...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Nov 25, 2010
An unnamed source has leaked pictures of the Nexus S running Gingerbread to XDA-Developers, and some rumored specs to go along with. There's about half a dozen blurrycam shots (aren't they always?) sh...
