What do you hope to see in Gingerbread?

Better Memory Management, nicer UI with better looking icons. More apps open in the background, something like webOS.

Better support for tablets like the Galaxy Tab, Dell Streak (if you wanna call it a tablet), the Archos Media tablets, etc.

An official Android-to-Android video chat app

The un-preinstallition of Amazon MP3 and to be replaced with Google Music

Realistically I don't expect anything mind blowing. It is just another incremental update.

Fully functional CISCO ipsec VPN support so that Android can displace the iPhone in my workplace. Seriously, what CISCO VP did the Google guys piss off? This is such a huge, gaping hole in their offering and one that is keeping them out of enterprises.

Battery life improved would be great.

First of all, better app switching, better visual representation of multi-tasking. Smooth kinetic scrolling. more(better) widgets. more polished UI. Look and feel should be solid. Not sure how, but include gameloft's gme in the market, or may be from other better vendors.

I'd like to see it on my evo.

More gumdrop buttons, and more icing. But mostly more gumdrop buttons. Two never seem to be enough.

Google talk should at least receive the ability to send/receive files. Having to leave the chat and send via email is a hassle.

More ringing options, ie. vibrate then ring, increasing ring.

Save mms

Correct the Google calendar bug where events that go past 12:00am show up as a duplicated event the next day. Drives me crazy.

-majorly revamped ui all across
-newer and innovative launcher
-cool landscape to portrait and vice versa transition effects! also should be instantaneous!
-easier to install (one click setup) sdk for developers (currently it sucks ass)
-better emulator on the development side!!!
-better haptics
-nice dialer with some decent t9 support
-major performance improvements! (for example, when listing all applications - it takes an hour!....or the useless media scanner running and stalling the whole device till it completes its work...all annoying to the end user)

O) Lock the Carriers out of the Operating System! Stop forcing your Crapware onto my phone!
O) Improve the overall Operating System User Interface.
O) Improve all of the basic built-in applications; email, calendar, etc. They are all functional, but feature-poor.
O) Improve security and support for Corporate environments so that my company will allow me to connect my Android to the network.

i would like to see if gingerbread would be the same for all devices cause me and a family member have the EVO with 2.2 and our devices are completly different with certain apps and how the market appears to us, we had the same issue with the moment with the 2.1 update-1 thats why we moved to the Evo and its the same problem

no need to root and something like BBM

I would like to see Netflix streaming and weOS style multitasking

I agree with the better [Google Talk] application. It's still so beta and so limited. Just like the desktop version. [Batter Life] improvement is highly needed also. A few more useful stock [Android Widgets] would be nice as well. The ability to take a screen-shot without having to ROOT a device would be nice too. For those less tech savy people out there.

Should we worry about the iphone coming to Verizon?

Definately Wifi calling like some of the new T-mobile phones are supposedly getting or like the Blackberrys do.

I'd love it if they fixed the google maps / audio issue. if you have music playing and you're using gps, the gps will interrupt to give directions, and then it won't start the music back up. it used to do this in 2.1, but it broke in 2.2.

Copy and paste every where
Better sms/mms
high resolution icons
wifi calling
Depending of brand have the option for sense,blur,or what ever at boot up. how nice would it be to pick the os you run if you like sense great load it, want vanilla great run it. your talking 60-170Mb we have room on our phones let us choose.

i agree the bbm would be great too.truthfully though if it were like webos as far as cards for apps that are running it would be the shit.

PLEASE support: ADHOC: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=82

I think there is a need for an android device classification scale that can be applied as a software rating requirements system as well as hardware so you know when you buy a device if it can properly play high end games or movies etc. Most people are ignorant to the power of their hardware and this would prevent android or the hardware/software makers from getting a bad name.

This is the best thing going for apple. Only one phone so everything works on the current platform. This is like the problem pc gamers have vs console gamers

High quality audio recording dammit! Android audio recording sucks compared to iPhone, Windows Mobile, even compared to classic Palm OS! Everyone knows it but nobody wants to talk about it!

I'd like to see Picasa!

http://absolute-android.blogspot.com/2010/10/android-ginger-bread-featur...
If even half of these are true I'll be happy for the time being.

Intergated native spell check like blackberry has !! this is sorely missing !!

and microsoft outlook sync too ! don't like the cloud.

This isn't really in the OS, but I would like a save/wish list button in the app market. Smoother operation when in 4g(Evo). A way to clone the phone so when it needs replacing I don't have to spend hours re-downloading every app.Bluetooth 3.0, I don't know what is different, but I want it!

I wish for them to finally fix the problem of streaming audio over 3G. Used to work great in 2.1 until they messed around with it. Been having to deal with poor audio quality over Pandora for months now.

Google Voice integration into the API so developers can use gVoice. Kinda sick of being reliant on the Google Voice app for txting. Its such a piss poor txting app. There needs to be some API goodness that allows apps like Handcent to reach into gVoice's bowels and send and receive txt's

Copy and paste.
gapless playback between music
Push notifications
Bettery battery life

What I hope to see:
*Support for tablet resolutions (all the way up till at least 1280x720)
*Bug fixes (Wi-Fi, Exchange, and steaming AAC+ audio at least, I know there are a few more)
-Better interface (probably won't be hugely improved until Honeycomb, but something would be nice)
-Better user accessible task manager. Just making it more visible and user friendly should help
-Continue to cut apps out of the ROM (like they've done with Gmail, Youtube, Car Home, etc)
*Better copy and paste. I don't care if they have to outright steal Apple's copy and paste implementation, they are already being sued by them, might as well make it worthwhile
*Better codec support. I want FLAC, WMV, AVI, and MKV supported in the default media player
-Better music management software, including Wi-Fi sync. I personally don't care, I love the drag and drop way to add music but this is a big issue to people weaned on iTunes. As long as it isn't required and Wi-Fi sync is available I will be happy
-Desktop App Market. Same as above, doesn't really matter to me but other people like it
*Phone to Chrome. There was the Android to Cloud app but that app is trouble. Google already has Chrome to Phone, just add the ability to push a website you're viewing now to your desktop browser and I will be happy
*Better performance. JIT helped a lot, but we need better. GPU acceleration for one thing, and we also need to find a way to stop that eventual Android slow down. I think everyone knows what I mean, your phone is lightning quick a few days or a week after you wipe it or first get it, but then it just hits a brick wall
-Add default ability to install every app on the SD card. I know it is up to the developer on Froyo but that isn't good enough for me since a lot of devs don't implement it.
-Better ability to customize calendar event durations on the phone. Yes at my PC I can completely customize it, but giving more options wouldn't hurt
*Not sure if this is an Android thing, or just my Motorola DROID with its crappy touch sensor, but the touch sensitivity and accuracy needs to be improved. I've had experience with the Samsung Moment and the Motorola DROID and both aren't great with touch. Especially when scrolling it will often just freak out and hyper scroll in one direction randomly

The starred ones are the ones that I really want. I think this is a fairly reasonable list, from all the rumors Gingerbread is shaping up to be a bug fix and polish kind of release. Honeycomb will probably bring the big UI changes everyone wants

Lol. That Guy pooped a gingerbread man.