It is official, starting Monday June 6th Sprint will start the rollout for Android 2.3 Gingerbread for their hot selling HTC EVO 4G we all know and love. The EVO has been one of the biggest selling Android phones aside from the Galaxy S and has been a huge success for Sprint. The update to that sweet Gingerbread was talked about back in April, then leaked a few days later. This will be official, and tasty just as Gingerbread has been.

UPDATE: Available now!

Here is a little tip, for those that are excited and just can’t wait until June 6th you can apparently get it starting Friday the 3rd. Yes that is tomorrow. According to the Sprint site users can “check for updates” right on the handset on the 3rd and the update will be initiated, otherwise it will be pushed over-the-air starting Monday. Pretty weird way to roll-out the update because I’m sure anyone that hears that will check for updates manually.

Gingerbread brings many changes and improvements as well as UI changes. A Download manager is included as well as some EVO specific Gmail, and battery drain issues have also been resolved. For all the information check out the press release below, or click here.

HTC EVO™ 4G from Sprint will receive the Android™ 2.3, Gingerbread, update through an over-the-air maintenance release beginning on Monday, June 6.

Sprint will send update notifications to users in waves. The notification will let users know the update is available and provide the simple two-step, over-the-air download instructions.

Users will receive a notification that Android 2.3 is available for download.

Once the user has downloaded the update, they will be prompted to install the update. The user will be notified that their device will be disabled during the installation process. The phone will be ready to use once the process completes.

Can’t Wait Until June 6?

For those who just can’t wait to get Android 2.3, there will be an easy user initiated option to download the upgrade starting on Friday, June 3. To access the update – from the home screen/Menu/Settings/System updates/HTC software Update. This will initiate the upgrade process.

The software release upgrades HTC EVO 4G to Android 2.3, Gingerbread. This version of Android improves download management through the Downloads application, offering the user easy access to any file downloaded from the browser, email or another application. It also fixes the devices ability to stream media through certain applications for the device.

Gingerbread restores HTC EVO 4G’s ability to sync multiple Gmail™ accounts, display email attachments in the email client and fixes battery discharge issues.

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    • I dont know if anyone’s replied to this, because I’m too lazy to read further, but the shift is getting their gingerbread update soon, I can’t remember the exact date = ) 

  6. i just tried to do the update manually and its saying that there is no updates available for my phone at the current time and that it is up to date 🙁

  18. The user interface is still the same, thats one of the things I was hoping that would of changed. But obviously from a business point of view they want customers to buy the new phones with new UI on it. Thats the problem with buying product when they first come out, you don’t really get updates you just get enough tweaks to say you got something.

  20. The New Gingerbread look will be released on another update that will come out either the June 6th or the 9th….As most people who updated found out, not very much physically different, the before June 6th push was a more inner workings update on the EVO 4G    

  21. I didn’t upgrade to the Swype/Blockbuster version because of the across the board disapproval.  Can I go straight to 2.3?  Or must I be bloated up?

  23. the new andriod update erased all my alarms and now I was late to work >:(  
    there should have been a warning!

  24. oddly this update unlike the last update erased all my contacts and those i had backed up on memory card very few of them even showed up ugh. thankfully it saved my text messages so i could get at least some of the important numbers back.

  25. Anyone having problems with your bluetooth with this update. My bluetooth worked great until this update. now it keeps disconnecting and then connecting for a minute and so on.

  27. nothing has changed on my evo, but my fiances evo shift has all sorts of new things.  What do i need to do now after it is installed to get the new upgrades to show on my phone?

  28. nothing has changed on my evo, but my fiances evo shift has all sorts of new things.  What do i need to do now after it is installed to get the new upgrades to show on my phone?

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