Gingerbread OTA in 'the coming weeks' still

crachel · Dec 21, 2010

draugaz said:
Even if google would completely disclose their roadmaps, people would find something to speculate about.

Android and Me

There would be another extremely vocal group which is "not impressed" no matter what google offers.

Techcrunch

Another vocal part will hate the changes, you just can't please anyone.

app developers

And another which is bored and "not excited anymore" since anything they get is old news (was announced like 6 months ago).

xda

ChongoDroid · Dec 21, 2010

For those waiting for gingerbread, root and download it yourself.. Or wait. Personally I think if you own an n1 and don't root it then you don't even deserve gingerbread.

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GHOST99K · Dec 21, 2010

Keep your opinions to yourself.

ChongoDroid said:
For those waiting for gingerbread, root and download it yourself.. Or wait. Personally I think if you own an n1 and don't root it then you don't even deserve gingerbread.

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GldRush98 · Dec 21, 2010

CodeMonkey said:
You missed one group of people out.

Those who are happy with their N1, quite interested to see what Gingerbread will bring but ok with waiting until it's officially released.

I'm with them..

This is the proper attitude

sknoslo · Dec 21, 2010

People really should take into consideration the work that has to go into one of these updates. The android team has undoubtedly been running gingerbread on their N1's for months now, so its not an issue of it not being ready or being delayed. It's much easier to ship a phone with Gingerbread pre-installed, as with the NS, than to update an existing phone, so of course its not on our phone yet. First they have to rigorously test the build, then they have to rigorously test the OTA system, to make sure there are no serious bugs that could cause bricked devices, etc.

Just keep this in mind, yes Google said that the N1 would always be getting updates quickly, but they never said they would release updates that weren't ready. It's not some big conspiracy, they are just preparing.

b1337 · Dec 21, 2010

GHOST99K said:
Keep your opinions to yourself.

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post something useful that is related to the thread....opinions are like assholes everyone has one, you've posted enough on here to figure that out im sure...

i for one can patiently wait because i will probably still use miui over gingerbread

draugaz · Dec 21, 2010

CodeMonkey said:
You missed one group of people out.

Those who are happy with their N1, quite interested to see what Gingerbread will bring but ok with waiting until it's officially released.

I'm with them..

Me too. But we are not vocal enough, therefore we don't exist

diversificationied · Dec 21, 2010

austinwsj said:
I honestly expect more out of Google.

I mean, I do systems engineering and I totally understand what its like to develop firmware and software development, but this is google. Theyve got armies of engineers and talented people who I think are passionate of their product.

The team behind the Nexus line of phones isn't as big as you think it is. It's also not

ChongoDroid · Dec 22, 2010

Gingie is fun... the AOSP build is fine. I haven't run a stock rom in forever and it's strange how we take these phones for granted. I personally think Honeycomb will be the doosie that is really game changing. I also think we'll see more "system" apps updates as they are easier to update. So personally I think 2.3 brought the new maps, facebook, that crt animation I fell in love with strangely, new scrolling and apparently new apis for the awesome devs so I'm pretty happy.

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ChongoDroid · Dec 22, 2010

GHOST99K said:
Keep your opinions to yourself.

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Keep your desire in the desire section

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Rusty! · Dec 22, 2010

ChongoDroid said:
I also think we'll see more "system" apps updates as they are easier to update.

They need to work on how this is done though, updating numerous system apps takes a pretty big hit on /data

pfmiller · Dec 22, 2010

Rusty! said:
They need to work on how this is done though, updating numerous system apps takes a pretty big hit on /data

Yeah. Google sent out a few minor system updates, like FRG83D. I don't know why they didn't include the updated apps like Gmail, Maps, Search, and Voice Search. They could have freed up a lot of space on my phone with that.

labbbby · Dec 22, 2010

ChongoDroid said:
Gingie is fun... the AOSP build is fine. I haven't run a stock rom in forever and it's strange how we take these phones for granted. I personally think Honeycomb will be the doosie that is really game changing. I also think we'll see more "system" apps updates as they are easier to update. So personally I think 2.3 brought the new maps, facebook, that crt animation I fell in love with strangely, new scrolling and apparently new apis for the awesome devs so I'm pretty happy.

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I personally think that Android and me rumor might actually be right and that Honeycomb will be Android 2.4/2.5.

I wouldn't be surprised if they wait for Google I/O to announce the next major bump that should also receive a X.0 jump.

Additionally, the more I read about 2.3 the more I see that a lot of change happened under the hood. The Anandtech review contained a few interesting bits such as:

he other notable thing I tested was to find out whether the messaging (SMS/MMS) database is any better. In Android 2.1 and 2.2, I found over and over again that the whole thing would slow down after getting a day or more worth of texts inside. For me, that translates to a couple hundred. To test, I sent myself 200 messages and had friends bombard me best they could with everything they could muster. All total just over 500 in under an hour. The messaging application remained speedy and hasn’t become unbearably slow like I’m used to saying. As best I can tell, this seems way improved if not entirely fixed.

Gingerbread brings some GPU acceleration to task as well. Although not everything is hardware accelerated, almost all animations are, and there’s a definite difference in feel as a result. Things like the application launcher cube and the corresponding fade-in, fade-out which always felt like they chugged along on the Nexus One are way sped up. Not everything is perfect, however. Scrolling in most lists still sends the CPU to 100%, and the browser still doesn’t feel as smooth as it should, but the UI in Gingerbread does feel faster.

These tweaks and the gaming API look like ground work that would serve a new interface well. If you are going to slap a new interface with more eyecandy and gear up for gaming, you better be sure that the underlying components are flying...

michel-slm · Dec 22, 2010

Shahpur.Azizpour said:
yeah, but i don't understand this speculation. I expect google to give us honeycomb for sure, anything else will be unacceptable. Of course google is not obliged to give us updates, but as a conscious consumer i will switch to the product which is sold by the company valuing it's customer for a longer period of time. 2 years is a good bet, and im sure that Apple won't cut down their update support to less than 2 years, because in the past they provided updates for longer than that period.

That's the reason I stopped buying Nokia Maemo tablets -- the N900 and Google's N1 are hardware-wise relatively equivalent, but Nokia has a very poor track record at supporting OS updates on older hardware.

zer0day · Dec 23, 2010

CodeMonkey said:
You missed one group of people out.

Those who are happy with their N1, quite interested to see what Gingerbread will bring but ok with waiting until it's officially released.

I'm with them..

Add me in that group too

ChongoDroid · Dec 23, 2010

ChongoDroid said:
Gingie is fun... the AOSP build is fine. I haven't run a stock rom in forever and it's strange how we take these phones for granted. I personally think Honeycomb will be the doosie that is really game changing. I also think we'll see more "system" apps updates as they are easier to update. So personally I think 2.3 brought the new maps, facebook, that crt animation I fell in love with strangely, new scrolling and apparently new apis for the awesome devs so I'm pretty happy.

Sent from my Google phone

Forgot to mention the new market! Such an improvement and it just reeks of android goodness

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NexusDro · Dec 23, 2010

I wonder if the N1 Gingerbread will have all the features that the NxS has minus the NFC and gyroscope.

cezegg · Dec 23, 2010

after waiting this long, i really couldn't care less about gingerbread...
i'm pretty dang happy with my nexus one...
i think cyanogen's 6.1.1 rom trumps gingerbread...
but then again, i can't really say that, 'cause i've never used gingerbread.
thus rendering this post pretty dang useless. haha

diversificationied · Dec 23, 2010

NexusDro said:
I wonder if the N1 Gingerbread will have all the features that the NxS has minus the NFC and gyroscope.

What features? There's nothing extra on the NS that there isn't in AOSP.

Gingerbread OTA in 'the coming weeks' still

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