No Gingerbread for HTC Desire

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Before I start - yes I know all about "installing your own OS".
My Desire is a Vodafone Desire and I'm just happy with it running "official" software.
So this is more of information rather than a rant.

Anyway, it would appear that HTC have pulled the 2.3 upgrade for the Desire:

“Our engineering teams have been working hard for the past few months to find a way to bring Gingerbread to the HTC Desire without compromising the HTC Sense experience you’ve come to expect from our phones. However, we’re sorry to announce that we’ve been forced to accept there isn’t enough memory to allow us both to bring Gingerbread and keep the HTC Sense experience on the HTC Desire. We’re sincerely sorry for the disappointment that this news may bring to some of you.”

http://electricpig.co.uk/2011/06/14/why-the-htc-desire-android-2-3-update-was-cancelled/

Now this is not the first time HTC have done this kind of thing - pulling support on a phone still actually being sold in some establishments.
Although generally happy with the Desire, when I am looking for an upgrade in around 6 months time I am honestly going to be looking away from HTC.
Sticking to a company that do keep their products updated.

The Nexus 1 has a Gingerbread release, the Desire is hardware identical.
Bad show HTC.
 
The Nexus 1 doesn't have Sense, you're comparing Apples to Oranges.

I pasted this news into the Desire thread anyway.
 
Custom ROMs aren't just using the internal memory though, they are a 'bodge' that use the SD card for storage. Joe Bloggs doesn't want to be worrying about ext3 partitions on SD cards or not being able to easily swap SD cards. HTC could never release something so hacked to the general public!
 
bit of a surprise to be honest, it looked like it was going to come after the DHD etc. I don't own the set anymore but i think it's a poor show from HTC.

If the reason is storage space then I can understand, the desire was always stretched for internal memory, but they could have communicated it better
 
Kinda lame since the Wildfire S has the same amount of ROM, but it runs Gingerbread and Sense UI fine.

Lazy engineers!
 
Given that Sense is garbage, why not just install a nice custom ROM without sense?

Literally the first day I had my Desire, I installed DeFRoST so I could have it look almost identical to my Nexus One.
 
I'll just leave this here :)

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They did the same with the desire HD and sense V3 as well.

Basically said that V3 wouldn't work due to hardware requirements and yet there was a ROM/port of it to the HD pretty much fully working apart from the camera and the resolution iirc many months ago, I presume there will be one out there working now though.

HTC aren't really improving that much at all ever since they released the hero/desire - both ground breaking android phones at their respective times. The only thing they have got going for them is their sense UI and the build quality of their mobiles IMO.

Plus, I can't see any of the manufactures keeping to their word for the ice cream sandwich update where every phone that isn't older than 18 months depending on the hardware will get an update.

As both Samsung and HTC have not provided updates at all due to the reason that the hardware didn't support it, yet, it is more than adequate to support the update.

For the people who don't want to root and flash the latest android update, the only way to be sure is too buy Google official mobiles i.e. nexus one and the nexus S as they are guaranteed to get the updates.
 
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If anyone buys a non-google phone and gets more than one iteration of Android update officially (e.g. 2.1->2.2 or 2.2->2.3) then I think they should count themselves lucky. Always humours me when people kick off and exclaim they'll never buy brand x again; A lot of the cost of your phone was more or less gobbled up by their production and development of the handset, some of what's left will go to developing updates and shock horror they also like to make profit. They won't make updates forever!
 
I think what annoys people more, especially for me is the excuses they use (although obviously they aren't going to tell the truth i.e. we can't be bothered and it will affect the sales of our newer mobiles), which are pretty pathetic IMO, and also the fact that lower end mobiles e.g. wildfire S has got 2.3 yet the desire "hardware can't support it" :eek:

This is the major problem with android IMO, the updates. If only every mobile just ran stock android out of the box and was updated OTA, no involvement from carriers and manufactures customizing the UI.
 
MadMossy said:
Atleast this will be the last time this sort of thing happens hopefully as come Q3 when Ice Cream Sarny comes out all devices will be using the same operating system.

So if you plan on a new phone this year wait till then :P
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You can live in hope but you’ll be waiting much longer than Q3 for all devices to be using Ice Cream Sandwich. :D
 
Just a couple of things:

1: Sense is cack and should be treated as bloatware imo.
2: Gingerbread offers no every day functional advantage over 2.2 whatsoever.

Imo it would be an update for the sake of updating rather than actually adding anything useful.

If HTC say they can't get it running acceptably then good on them for pulling it, thats far better than having a raft of unhappy users moaning their phones are now at a snails pace.
 
Yeah was going to say, I switched between 2.3 Cyanogen and 2.2 Charity mod on my Droid1 and the functional differences really are incredibly minor, sadly the performance differences due to lack of memory are not so.

I suspect it's the same with the Desire especially with Sense running on top of it - an official roll-out means HTC end up getting all the stick for phones running dog-slow like the 3G/S(?) with iOS4 (I think was it?)
 
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