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 Phil Nickinson
Nov 05, 2010
It's admittedly tough to officially delay an unofficial device. But TechCrunch is reporting that's exactly whats happened to the fabled Nexus Two/Nexus S, the rumored Samsung device that may or may no...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 03, 2010
Remember how Google Maps got an update a couple of days ago that brought some changes to search results? Looks like it also got prepped for Gingerbread. What you see above are two phones, both w...
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by Cory Streater
Nov 02, 2010
We're expecting Google to announce Android 2.3 -- Gingerbread -- any minute now. ... ... ... Wait ... ... ... Nope, not yet. OK. Let's continue. So the big question is what are we going to get? UI&nbs...
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by Phil Nickinson
Oct 28, 2010
Android 2.3 -- which we told you last week will indeed be Gingerbread -- is starting to show up in Google Analytics logs. Our pals at Android and Me are seeing them, as are we. And while it's impossi...
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by Phil Nickinson
Oct 26, 2010
We can't vouch for the validity of this about screen, but GizmoFusion swears it's Android 2.3 Gingerbread. And maybe it is. Or maybe it's someone with a text editor and about 45 seconds of free time....
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by Sean Brunett
Oct 26, 2010
A report today suggests that a second Google phone is not only real, but is due out by the end of the year. If true, this device would be the follow-up to the very popular but now developer-only (in t...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Oct 22, 2010
Look who dropped in for a visit at Google HQ -- it's the Gingerbread man, poised to join the rest of the tasty treats on the lawn at Google. There's no word on any announcement or code dropping,...
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by Phil Nickinson
Oct 22, 2010
We've been talking about the next version of Android -- (still) unofficially dubbed Gingerbread -- as far back as a year ago -- months before Froyo was ever announced. But what we haven't really known...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Oct 21, 2010
Whilst wandering through some comments on Gizmodo, we came a link to purported Gingerbread video from Mother Russia. I don't speak Russian, and I don't read Cyrillic, so we found someone who doe...
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by Phil Nickinson
Oct 21, 2010
Remember that really blurry picture that reportedly shows Gingerbread? It hasn't gotten any clearer, but now it's moving. Phandroid has the video it apparently was ripped from, and it shows a pretty c...
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by Kyle Gibb
Oct 19, 2010
Google has been pretty mum, at least in public, Gingerbread, which at last check was still scheduled to launch sometime this winter. However, DigiTimes has gotten word that Google has recently ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Oct 18, 2010
When it comes to blurrycam shots, well, this is right up there with the best (erm, blurriest) of them. But what you're looking at, says Phandroid, is one of the first public glimpses of the And...
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by Sean Brunett
Oct 15, 2010
Ice Cream will be the version of Android following Honeycomb, Forbes reported today. We haven't even gotten to Gingerbread yet, but that doesn't mean we can't look to the future. Google has taken...
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by Phil Nickinson
Oct 13, 2010
We love these Android "about" screens. And the reason we love them is that you can make your own with a couple of lines in the command prompt and about 30 seconds with a text editor. So whe...
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by Kyle Gibb
Aug 19, 2010
TechRadar has done some digging, and actually have "multiple sources" that confirm that the version of Android following Android 3.0 ("Gingerbread") will be named "...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Aug 18, 2010
Tablet madness is upon us, and if you're like me you can't wait to see what Android looks and feels like on a proper tablet device. The Asus Eee pad just may be one of those devices. Origi...
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by Kyle Gibb
Aug 11, 2010
Gaming on Android just got a lot more serious. Engadget is reporting that Sony Ericsson is hard at work on the oft-rumored PSP phone, only it will come with Android 3.0 ("Gingerbread")...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 02, 2010
Remember those supposed Android 3.0 details that dropped earlier this week, courtesy of oft-accurate Russian Blogger Eldar Murtazin's Digestiv podcast, as translated by Unwired View's Staska? Wel...
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by Cory Streater
Jun 30, 2010
Details on Gingerbread, the next big release of Android, have been few and far between. We are expecting a user interface overhaul, but beyond that things have been a little murky. Well, mobile...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jun 16, 2010
It's not really a big stretch to come up with, but TechCrunch chief Michael Arrington says he has "multiple sources close to Google" who tell him the stock Android user interface will get a ...
