HTC Desire will not be updated to Gingerbread

14 June, 2011
Bad news HTC Desire owners, HTC has just announced it won’t update the original Desire with Android 2.3 Gingerbread due to insufficient memory. You are now stuck with Froyo forever. Ok, this forever thing...

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  • AnonD-1504
  • vjX
  • 15 Jun 2011

Go HTC! they just announced that they will provide it. again.

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    • Anonymous
    • 35V
    • 15 Jun 2011

    Absolutely disgusted...what a joke. Not happy at all...

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      • mi.abbas
      • 3sU
      • 15 Jun 2011

      GUYs - cool down !!!! dont smash the HTC..
      Now they understood all our HTC Desire users feeling reverted back what they anounced."HTC pulls a 180, now says Gingerbread is coming to Desire" .

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        • Anonymous
        • 0Tt
        • 15 Jun 2011

        Please update my dear gsmarena,HTC now says Gingerbread is coming to Desire things has changed

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          • AnonD-11005
          • L4h
          • 15 Jun 2011

          and so the ruin of Android, I always prefer Nokia because of this...
          lol loosers

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            • shokka9
            • Tk5
            • 15 Jun 2011

            Been running Gingerbread for a VERY long time....google 'Oxygen XDA AdamG'. Who cares what HTC do? I know I don't......

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              • AnonD-11004
              • 2@S
              • 15 Jun 2011

              http://www.techradar.com/news/phone-and-communications/mobile-phones/htc-actually-we-will-bring-android-2-3-to-desire-966353

              seems like HTC is going back their words and gonna update Desire to 2.3

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                • Cro
                • pr4
                • 15 Jun 2011

                Well, till now HTC fan. They are better then Samsung via update etc...
                Really disapointed, not any more HTC fan.

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                  • Anonymous
                  • MT$
                  • 15 Jun 2011

                  nexus, 15 Jun 2011i am glad that i went for nexus s(indian version) its just ... moreDesire S is only 2.3.3 for me. When are they releasing the 2.3.4 update?

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                    • kamran
                    • M8T
                    • 15 Jun 2011

                    HTC has taken a U-turn and desire WILL get GB. they just posted on HTC UK facebook page

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                      • AnonD-1180
                      • vjX
                      • 15 Jun 2011

                      So it look like HTC is taking back their words.
                      This is what they say "Contrary to what we said earlier, we are going to bring Gingerbread to HTC Desire."

                      http://www.facebook.com/htcuk/posts/225857300777092

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                        • Shaggy
                        • TXU
                        • 15 Jun 2011

                        Released March 2010 this phone is ancient history. I'm sad to say but that's how short the lifecycle of a modern smartphone is. Does it have to be this way....NO if you ask me. That's how the market has developed into. If they(HTC, SE, SAMMY, LG etc.) kept supporting older model smartphones, it would lengthen the smartphones "lifecycle", resulting a lower sale of newer smartphones. Thus giving a loss in profit. It's all about profit maximization.

                        Root it. Rom it.

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                          • ali
                          • uWA
                          • 15 Jun 2011

                          i have question to htc company. Why you made low memory in htc desire. why you donot buy kingstone 8gb or 16gb memory stick and fit it in htc desire phone memory. i know you played game with htc users so thay can buy new htc phone in future for good memory

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                            • robert
                            • ms3
                            • 15 Jun 2011

                            "Yesterday (that's 11.05.2011) at Google I/O, Google announced that it was forming an alliance with phone manufacturers and carriers to ensure more reliable updates for Android users. Revealed during the keynote yesterday, Google hasn’t provided full details just yet, but we do know which companies are on board and how long they'll be supporting hardware for.

                            Google revealed that the new guidelines mean future hardware will be supported for 18 months after launch. That means you can count on your phone receiving all compatible updates for a year and a half after you buy it. LG, Sony Ericsson, Motorola, AT&T, Vodafone, Sprint, Samsung, (*cough)HTC(*cough) and Verizon Wireless have all signed up so far".

                            Pretty nice, right ?

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                              • AnonD-11001
                              • 3J1
                              • 15 Jun 2011

                              htc u-turn desire will be getting gingerbread

                              quote from htc facebook

                              HTC UK
                              Contrary to what we said earlier, we are going to bring Gingerbread to HTC Desire.

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                                • khush
                                • vGA
                                • 15 Jun 2011

                                htc desire comes with 1ghz proc. 576mb ram 512mb rom
                                where
                                htc wildfire s 600mhz proc. 512mb ram 512mb rom when it comes with gingerbread
                                and htc desire is having higher resultion than htc wildfire s
                                if wildfire can come with gingerbread why not htc desire.......

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                                  • Rany Ishak
                                  • nV8
                                  • 15 Jun 2011

                                  now the official german page announced that gingerbread is coming again :)

                                  http://www.facebook.com/htcdach

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                                    • blankman
                                    • IaH
                                    • 15 Jun 2011

                                    Users were complaining about older versions of Android lagging with certain handsets, so the manufacturers started using faster processors with more RAM which started the whole HARDWARE RACE.

                                    Now, phones released just 12 months ago are now obsolete because Android bloatware demands the faster rescources

                                    Now you see the benefit of a closed OS like iOS and Symbian, Devices that are getting updates for more than 2 years instead of just one. Just give me better displays and new features and I'll put up with longer loading times for software which works just as well on all formats.

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                                      • Anonymous
                                      • 0nn
                                      • 15 Jun 2011

                                      It is very sad that HTC lie to us! Customers are hard to find but so easy to lose!

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                                        • AnonD-1180
                                        • vjX
                                        • 15 Jun 2011

                                        Anonymous, 15 Jun 2011right so you have a froyo firmware equipped handset? , does... moreI know that I can root my phone,but it always better to get it the official way! At that time of my purchase it one of the high end phone HTC has any because the HTC Sense UI is very useful for me. By the way HTC make a promise that "HTC DESIRE WILL GET GINGERBREAD 2.3 UPDATE" that why I buy this phone!