In what’s become a common occurrence for HTC, the company has updated their Facebook page, explaining they “are testing our build of Gingerbread for HTC Desire and will start doing quality assurance for it this week”. [Facebook]
In order to create enough room for both Gingerbread and the Sense UI on the Desire phone, HTC has again taken to its Facebook page to elaborate further.
In under 24 hours, HTC has done a complete U-turn on their former flagship Desire phone after public pressure (we assume), announcing via its UK Facebook page that “contrary to what we said earlier, we are going to bring Gingerbread to HTC Desire.” Great news for owners of the year-old phone, though we wonder how they shrunk the Sense UI down? [Facebook]
Just a year after the former-flagship Desire was released, HTC’s slammed any hopes of owners receiving a Gingerbread upgrade. Writing on the HTC UK Facebook fanpage, they credited it to there not being enough memory for both Gingerbread and the Sense UI.
Not sure exactly when this happened over the weekend, but if you were having trouble upgrading your Desire via the HTC website (PC-only… WTF?), the update is now available OTA, and about 97MB, so best done over WiFi if you have a limited data plan for your handset… [Thanks everyone who sent this in!]
And lo, it was announced to the beholden: “Cast thy browsers forth to the HTC website, and thou shalt have thine Froyo update, Telstra Desire owners”. And the masses were appeased, and the Desires updated en masse, as our lord the Android was updated to thineself.
Telstra’s been teasing the Froyo update for the Desire for what seems like an eternity, but this morning Director of Telstra Mobility products Richard Fink promised the update was coming this week.
It seems like an age since European Desire owners got the update to Android 2.2. An age that Telstra Desire owners have been stuck with 2.1 – or if they were confident enough – a self-installed version of the Froyo OS. But it looks like the wait is almost over for Telstra Desire owners, with the Telstra Twitter team telling reader Con that an OTA update should arrive “within the next few days”.
