We’ve known that Telstra would be losing the 2100Mhz part of its 3G network for some time; it was a legacy of the early 3G tie-up between Telstra and 3 due to be switched over in August. Telstra’s started notifying customers early, so if you’re still on an 2100Mhz 3G phone, you can expect a letter just like this to drop through your letterbox any day now.
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.
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”.
