[UPDATE: HTC has now changed its mind again. A new Facebook post reads "Contrary to what we said earlier, we are going to bring Gingerbread to HTC Desire." ]
Those who bought the HTC Desire because of a promised future upgrade to Android 2.3 Gingerbread can put there heads in their hands and begin to softly weep. HTC has announced – via Facebook – that it has officially given up on the project. The problem? The phone doesn't have enough memory for both Gingerbread and HTC's own Sense user interface. To save you entering the seething morass of Facebook, here's the announcement in full.
This isn't really a surprise. We got our first look at the Desire at the Mobile World Congress, Barcelona, in February 2010. But as recently as this year's MWC HTC was promising that the upgrade was on its way.
What this news really highlights is the way Android works. Instead of being a single OS that can be sent out to users, it's more of a platform that is taken by phone makers and bent to their will before being passed on to you. And it seems that now we can't even trust the manufacturers to tell us the truth.
Desire and Gingerbread Update [Facebook via ★]
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