HTC Desire will not be updated to Gingerbread

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Last year's HTC flagship, the HTC Desire won't get Android 2.3(Gingerbread) officially. HTC says Gingerbread won't be available for Desire due to less amount of memory, which is odd because Wildfire S is running on Gingerbread which has even lesser RAM compared to Desire.

More on it here

Obviously by now most of the Desire owners might have already be running Gingerbread Custom ROMs but HTC should really have done better here!

[sriharsha_madineni]

Yeah, read a similar story on engadget, came as a surprise for me, HTC first locks bootloader on Desire S & Sensation and now this. Looks like HTC's gonna loose many loyal customers after this incident since it was one of their most popular phones and sold in many numbers. Now all those customers would be pissed off by such an announcement.

Anyways, All long as devs at XDA are active, HTC users need not worry much

[sygeek]

Too bad. They shouldn't have given up this early, this is gonna piss off thousands of users. Users have no other option except to use a custom ROM (if any).

[sriharsha_madineni]

Originally Posted by SyGeek

Users have no other option except to use a custom ROM (if any).

Any?? Desire has the maximum number of custom ROM's(including Gingerbread & HTC Sense 3.0) available than many other Android phones. So it's not any, MANY

This is just a small list of widely used Custom ROM's for Desire

Desire Index - Everything Desire is here! [UPDATED: 9/6 - Inactive entried REMOVED] - xda-developers

[sygeek]

Originally Posted by sriharsha_madineni

Any?? Desire has the maximum number of custom ROM's(including Gingerbread & HTC Sense 3.0) available than many other Android phones. So it's not any, MANY

This is just a small list of widely used Custom ROM's for Desire

Desire Index - Everything Desire is here! [UPDATED: 9/6 - Inactive entried REMOVED] - xda-developers

I'm not an Android user as of yet and thus unaware of these ROMs. Well, now it looks like Desire users have got a better choice.

[noob]

Originally Posted by sriharsha_madineni

Yeah, read a similar story on engadget, came as a surprise for me, HTC first locks bootloader on Desire S & Sensation and now this.

FYI , HTC is going to provide update which will unlock the bootloader and all NEW phones will be with unlocked bootloader. Same has been confirmed by HTC.

its not about RAM , its about ROM SIZE HTC is talking about.

[sriharsha_madineni]

Currently I'm on Insert-coin ROM running Gingerbread and Sense 3.0 which wasn't supposed to run on Desire at all(Sense 3.0), but here it is running smoothly.

Wildfire S has got 600MHz Processor, 512MB RAM & 512MB ROM and ships with Gingerbread, Desire has 1GHz processor, 576MB RAM & the same 512MB ROM and yet it hasn't got enough ROM space to handle gingerbread?

Those into Custom ROM's know that using Aplharev, ROM Partitions on HTC phones can be modified to suit different needs, HTC can release a patch or something to modify those and have enough system partition to handle GB.

Even better, there are numerous ROM's which don't need any partition table changes and installs into default ROM layout. If they can do it, why can't HTC??

Simply put they don't want to waste time in developing firmwares for older devices, which is unlike HTC in the past, since they have always been very aggressive in pushing new updates to all its models irrespective of Old & New.

Regarding locked bootloaders, Yes, they have announced that future devices won't be locked, But why lock it in the first place and now trying to fix it with a patch. Why waste time in such useless stuff but they don't have time to push firmwares for Desire!!!!

[Terabyte]

HTC really seems confused at the moment.
Now it says it will update Desire to Gingerbread.
More on it here

[sriharsha_madineni]

A hell lot of users threatened to cancel their HTC Flyer pre-bookings and a lot of them swore this would be their last HTC device, if HTC follows this attitude towards updates. Not to mention Desire is one of the best sellers for HTC, so a majority of them are pissed off at their earlier decision, so seems that they have come down a step

UPDATE:
Looks like that announcement had something to do with avoiding a law suit from a group of corporate users, who ditched their BB's and went with Desire's trusting the earlier statement from HTC that they'll push GB to Desire. Now after yesterday's statement they threatened to sue them citing the advertisements HTC published regarding GB update to Desire, which made them to go with Desire

Add this to some millions of pissed of users, HTC is finally doing what it should have done in the first place. At least they are listening to customers unlike other manufacturers.

[sygeek]

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