Despite telling the world that it wouldn’t happen, Sony Ericsson has changed its tune, announcing that the ageing Xperia X10 will in fact be getting an update to Gingerbread.
In a global announcement last Friday night, Sony Ericsson confirmed that generic X10 handsets would get the Gingerbread update in the middle of the year, either end of Q2 or early Q3.
That said, there’s no guarantee that the carriers will rush the updates out to local X10 owners, but it’s good to see that Sony Ericsson is seeming to take its new philosophy of ensuring its handsets have the latest software seriously.
Mr Biggles
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 at 11:44 AMFinally SE have listened to their loyal customers… Although half of us have already got Gingerbread thanks to XDA Developers.
It’s also good to see that SE have realised we don’t want their stupid and useless customisations; we just want full functionality, as offered by the latest version of Android.
With this move I will definitely consider buying SE again, whereas before this announcement, it was a NO WAY from me and countless others.
Lindsay Went
Friday, April 22, 2011 at 6:55 AMHaving never received the 2.1 update off 3 it is a moot point anyway. The mistake I made was assuming that 3 would pass on the update. Next time I will get a phone with a recent version.
Ash
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 at 11:58 AMIsnt the question whether the carriers will actually pass on this update to their customers? If Vodafail, Optus etc get in the way with their “extensive testing” and implant their crap apps before releasing the firmware update to their customers, then good chance that these updates wont make their way to Australian shores. Most telco’s wont invest the time and money to test these updates for the handful that care to update their phone to Gingerbread me thinks.
Mr Biggles
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 at 1:32 PMXDA will have a flashable version before you can say “get your hands off my pants, grandma!”
Ash
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 at 5:05 PMNo doubt XDA will, but of those handful that want to upgrade, how many will bother going through the someone threatening process of an upgrade via the instructions posted on XDA? I’ve seen them for the ROM’s that are released for SGS and even Im scared of upgrading my phone from 2.2 to 2.2.1 or above.
Hesh
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 at 7:39 PManyone who actually knows the difference between 2.1 – 2.3.3 will do it.
but i read that the update is only for generic phones and the branded handsets wont get the gingerbread update
Leonard Grey
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 at 11:59 AMNow all we need is some gingerbread love for x10mini/pro owners..
Chris Brown
Wednesday, March 30, 2011 at 3:01 AMSilly bastards, I was going to buy one of these x10s recently but didn’t because they weren’t going to be upgrading the OS. So I got a nexus one.
Billy
Friday, April 1, 2011 at 7:59 PMhope virgin mobile get the update
Shivneet Sharma
Sunday, April 17, 2011 at 2:50 PMhey mate, i called virgin mobile to check if x10 was generic (factory unlocked) and all their phones on post paid are “generic” which means we should be getting it :)
Steve Tran
Saturday, April 2, 2011 at 3:55 PMGreat. They waited till the 11th hour to release an update at the tail end of the X10′s life.
Nice one SE.