loonatik wrote:
I've messed with Gingerbread and I do NOT like it. unless you were playing on a Nexus S, you had an "unofficial build" which may or may not be a true testament to Gingerbread's real capabilities. It adds some hardly noticable features like better copy and past functions and a better browser depending on how much you use these, I wouldn't call them hardly noticable, and totally screws up the keyboards again, "unofficial builds" may or may not have full functionality of all components. Also, there is NO 2.4 on the horizon yes, there is, there are at least three phones that were announced at MWC that are set to release with 2.4 and a handful others that will get it shortly after release, and it's NOT called Ice Cream (Sandwich?) You're right, 2.4 is a continuation of Gingerbread, much like 2.0 was Eclair and was only released on the original Droid, with 2.1 and 2.1.1 also being Eclair. That's 3.0. No, that's Honeycomb. Ice Cream Honeycomb will first show up in Verizon stores on the Motorola Xoom and is taylored for use on tablets, but will eventually come to phones Probably not, Honeycomb is for tablets (for now) and Ice Cream (Sandwich?) will combine parts of Gingerbread and Honeycomb and will be for phones. If you REALLY want to try Gingerbread, it's out there and ported to the Incredible. If you want something with a little more snap and gusto, there's plenty of better options than the Gingerbread ROM's being developed. Just remember, those are ports and not official builds and may not run to the full extent capable. However, we are not supposed to be having this discussion here anyway. Many are incorporating features of Gingerbread, like the keyboard that I HATE with a passion... but that's easy enough to fix.
So, my two suggestions would be: be happy with the best rated Android phone on the market today OR void your warranty, root the phone, load up some bare-bones stripped Gingerbread ROM, then wonder why you weren't happy with an OS that CNET described as better than iPhone4.
Sorry about the puke green editing here, but that is how this post made me feel. Gingerbread on my Eris, while an unofficial build, runs like a dream. For the most part, the changes from Froyo to Gingerbread (at this point, we'll see what 2.4 brings) are UI changes (which most running manufacturer provided OS's will probably never see due to lay-over UI's like Sense on the DInc) and some performance/battery life improvements. The thing will HTC phones, however, is that they have revamped their Sense UI and, IMHO, that is where you will see the biggest changes/improvements for the DInc, assuming that they haven't (and I don't think they have) pushed the OS beyond the phones capabilities. I don't blame you for not liking Gingerbread, to each his own. I, however, love what it has done to my "legacy" phone and, if you are going to come in here and crush everybody's hopes and dreams about life with an upgraded OS on their phones, at least do your research and check your facts.
. I am still hopeful that they will make us all Incredible users happy. However, to be very frank, I'm a happy camper if they give me the latest verison of Sense UI (with themable skins and local navigation etc etc), even if it is with Froyo.
