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Is It Worth Upgrading the Desire to Gingerbread?

Smartphones are great. They're fun and they're useful allowing you to work and connect on the move. They're not even that expensive these days with competitive network contracts, but the problem is with new operating systems coming at every other day (especially with Android) handsets have the lifespan of a curious cat.

The HTC Desire may have been replaced by the Desire S and the Desire HD, but it's still a top-of-the-range award winning phone and it's only a year old. But it's already having problems keeping up with Google. First it was taken out of the update loop and Desire users had to resign themselves to life without Gingerbread but now there's been a U-turn and Gingerbread is coming to Desire. The question is though, is it worth it?

The problem stems from its pathetic memory. The HTC Sense interface and Gingerbread can't run alongside each other because the Desire simply can't handle it. In order to solve the problem HTC will cut some applications from the Gingerbread release.

It could be a fair compromise but- A) we have no say on what will be cut and B) at the end of the day you want the full experience. Is it not better to have full 2.2 than half 2.3. Plus there's no guarantees the update will work until its wormed its way onto a few thousand handsets by then the web could be inundated with complaints of bugs and sluggish performances.

If customers do opt for the update it should be available sometime next week. Network dependant of course, as usual.

 

 

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