Rumor Mill: Android Gingerbread to Arrive November 11th

It appears that Gingerbread, the next version of Google's Android operating system, is set to be released as soon as next week, on November 11th, to be more precise. Rumors on the near availability of the solution have started to emerge ever since last month, but now they appear to be more solid.

The upcoming release would actually involve the SDK for Gingerbread, supposedly called Android 2.3, and would be in line with the supposed launch of Nexus Two by Samsung (the handset vendor already denied these rumors).

Moreover, the release would follow shortly after the appearance of a Gingerbread Man on Google's campus, next to the statues of other Android flavors.

While the landing of that statue suggested that the actual launch of the new operating system was near, new rumors point towards a specific release date for the SDK.

According to a recent article on IntoMobile, the near release of the Android 2.3 Gingerbread SDK was also announced, unofficially, through a series of visual changes that were spotted in the latest version of Google Maps for Android.

The upcoming OS flavor should arrive with a great deal of graphical changes, and some of them were said to have been already included in the new release of Google Maps.

At the same time, the new site points towards reports of Gingerbread-powered handsets accessing various websites around the Internet.

In all fairness, nothing was announced officially on the arrival of Gingerbread, though the OS version was said at one time to arrive before the end of the ongoing year.

However, the latest rumors on it are all converging towards a November release of the Gingerbread SDK, and there are great chances that the solution would actually make an appearance next week.

In addition to the said UI changes, the new platform release should also come with a series of other improvements, including optimizations for use on tablet PCs.