There has been a lot of talk about the latest version Android: 2.3 a.k.a. Gingerbread recently. Rumours of a successor to the Nexus One as well as reports of Gingerbread being rolled out “any day” have abounded.
While we still do not know very much, there are one or two things that are now clearer. Yesterday, Eric Schmidt, Google CEO, showed an “unannounced device” at the Web 2.0 summit in San Francisco. The device was running Android 2.3 and looked very much like the mock ups of the rumoured Nexus S device we’ve been hearing so much about.
Whilst there are still many details about this phone we still do not know, it does look at if we can finally put to rest the question of whether or not it exists. The phone is thinner in the middle, which gives it a slightly concave look – which is one of the things that early witnesses had already described.
As for Gingerbread itself, Schmidt told us that it would be with us in the “next few weeks”. Whether that’s the announcement, the release of the SDK or it initially rolling out to phone (probably Nexus One first), is very difficult to say.
We still don’t really know a huge amount about what Gingerbread will bring either, but we are now starting to get very excited. I just hope that it’s with good reason…
The Gingerbread tension mounts
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