You’re gonna love this – a leak has come through on Bell for the update dates (in general) for Android 2.3 Gingerbread for the following devices: Samsung Galaxy Tab (original), Samsung Galaxy S (Vibrant), HTC Incredible S, HTC Desire Z, and Motorola ATRIX. Each of these devices will be upgraded to the newest Android system in turn, all of them coming out inside the next few months this summer, 2011. Would you like to know more? Heck yes, cookies!
This sort of leak isn’t always to be believe 100%, but when we’re talking leaks of this magnitude and coming straight from mobilesyrup, our favorite Canadian blog for Android, it’s pretty much the real deal. That said, here we go on our upgrade adventure: Android 2.3 Gingerbread, the newest handset-based upgrade for the Google Mobile OS (one before Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, that is,) will be coming to the following Bell-based devices this summer at the following times:
First the Samsung Galaxy Tab will be coming out on July 7th, 2011 (why, that’s today!), Next the Samsung Galaxy S, aka the Vibrant here, will be coming “early summer.” This will be followed in mid-summer by the HTC Incredible S, our favorite little cutie, and the HTC Desire Z and Motorola ATRIX sometime “late summer,” each of these dates being just as general as you can guess. Hooray!
[via MobileSyrup]
YES!!!! Finally, the Vibrant gets some Gingerbread lovin’!
Best news I’ve read all week!
PLEASE tell me that the Galaxy Tab update INCLUDES the Wi-Fi model, because I own that and it bothers me so much that Samsung seems to have forgotten about this model!
FINALLY!! Damn been waiting the longest time for my vibrant to get official gingerbread, now we can finally have a working gps/navigation.
How does one get notified of this by bell and how does one get this Bell vibrant 2.3 update onto the phone?
Will more than likely be through Kies. That’s how I updated to FROYO.
Will this FINALLY resolve the lousy GPS performance on the Vibrant???
Yeah, it looks like it will.
Approaching mid summer, and still no update….. sigh…..
would like to know what bell thinks “early summer” is .. its the end of july and no update for the vibrant yet ! 🙁
Well, looks like us Vibrant users have to wait yet again, while HTC Incredible users, who were slated for a mid-summer upgrade, are getting their upgrade now….. heavy sigh…..
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Bell-HTC-Incredible-S-Receives-Android-2-3-3-Gingerbread-Update-Now-212847.shtml
Kies just upgraded my Galaxy Tab firmware to Android 2.3.3 !! Now to explore!