The eagerly awaited HTC Android 2.2 Froyo updates for phones including the HTC Desire, HTC Legend and HTC Wildfire will arrive before Christmas. The word comes from Eric Lin, HTC’s global PR and online community manager, who delivered some bad news for HTC fans hoping to see Android 3.0 Gingerbread this year…
Put under pressure by some probing questioning from the folks over at Pocket-lint, Lim explained that getting Android 2.2 Froyo to work with HTC Sense takes some time: “That’s not like a one week kind of project. We need to make sure that our applications are taking advantage of Froyo features. To make sure that they’re all running properly on the OS…and then to make sure it’s running on our hardware as well as we’d expect.”
He predicts that the HTC Android 2.2 Froyo update roll out won’t take nearly as long as the interminable wait for the HTC Hero Android 2.2 update. That’s apparently down to the move to Android 2.2 Froyo being less severe than the leap from Android 1.5 to Android 2.1. But it seems that the time taken to get the HTC Android 2.2 updates out will have a knock on effect for Android 3.0 Gingerbread.
Pressed to put a timescale on HTC getting round to Android 3.0 Gingerbread, Lim suggested we won’t see it until 2011 despite Google planning to unveil it as early as October. The first UK HTC handset to get an Android 2.2 overhaul still looks likely to be the HTC Desire.
Let us know: are you feeling frustrated at having to wait for Android 2.2 to arrive on your HTC phone? Is the range of Android versions out there starting to put your off Google’s OS? Or is it all worth the wait?
Due before Christmas | £free | HTC (via Pocket-Lint)
