Android 2.3.3 Breaks Google Voice on Some Nexus One Devices

Last week, Mountain View-based Internet giant Google started to push out a new software update for some Android users out there, namely for those who own a Nexus One or a Nexus S device, and it seems that there are some issues with the update that users encountered.

The new software update, Android 2.3.3 Gingerbread, brought the OS version of Nexus S up from Android 2.3, while delivering a major OS upgrade for Nexus One owners (previously running Android 2.2 Froyo).

Apparently, the new software caused some Nexus One devices to no longer be able to run the Google Voice application.

Users already signaled the issue on Google's support forums, and it seems that there are quite a few of them who experience the same problem.

“After manually updating to Android Gingerbread (2.3.3), I cannot access Google Voice,” one user explains in a post on the aforementioned support forums.

“I can't uninstall it because it's not visible in the list of applications on my device but I can't install it from the market because the market says the application is already installed. It worked perfectly in Android 2.2.2 (prior to the update),” the post continues.

As stated above, other users also confirm the existence of this issue on their devices following the upgrade to Android 2.3.3. Apparently, the OTA update caused similar problems as well.

Google did not offer a response to users' reports at the moment, but they would certainly do so in the near future.

In the meantime, we should note that Nexus S users were affected by various other glitches with this update as well.

Some of them claim that the Super AMOLED screen of their Nexus S smartphones became yellowish following the software update, and that certain parts of the screen seem washed out in some cases.

No official explanation on this emerged for the time being, and there's no telling on whether the software was the caused for this or not.