14 DAY TRIAL // Some bad news comes from HTC for owners of the original Desire, as the handset vendor decided to leave the smartphone with the Android 2.2 Froyo operating system on board, without upgrading it to the newer Android 2.3 Gingerbread
UPDATE: Apparently, the company decided that Desire will actually be able to accomodate Gingerbread, and posted on their Facebook page that the update will be possible.
"Contrary to what we said earlier, we are going to bring Gingerbread to HTC Desire," the company noted. No further details were unveiled.
The company has made the announcement official on its Facebook page, suggesting that the update could not arrive on Desire with both Gingerbread and the HTC Sense UI into the mix.
“Our engineering teams have been working hard for the past few months to find a way to bring Gingerbread to the HTC Desire without compromising the HTC Sense experience you’ve come to expect from our phones,” the mobile phone maker announced.
“However, we’re sorry to announce that we’ve been forced to accept there isn’t enough memory to allow us both to bring Gingerbread and keep the HTC Sense experience on the HTC Desire.
“We’re sincerely sorry for the disappointment that this news may bring to some of you.”
The Facebook post suggests that Gingerbread might have been brought to Desire without the Sense UI included into the mix, but makes no mentioning of such plans from HTC.
Of course, the HTC Desire already tasted a series of custom or leaked ROMs that brought the Android 2.3 Gingerbread OS to it, but none is an official software released from HTC.
Not to mention that Nexus One, Desire's sibling, already got the Gingerbread update, without the Sense UI, and they get along pretty well.
The Desire came to shelves right from the start with a small memory, but other HTC smartphones were launched similarly, including the HTC Sensation, which sports only 1GB of internal storage, along with 768MB of RAM.
When Android 2.3 Gingerbread arrived, HTC said that it would make it available for its Desire series, and the company already pushed an update to Desire HD.
Hopefully, they will find a way to make this possible on Desire as well, even if that could mean crippling the Sense experience.