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Thousands of Australians who purchased an HTC Desire Smartphone believing it could be upgraded to the next generation of Android are not going to get the muted upgrade to the new Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) operating system due to a lack of processing power.Initially HTC said that Gingerbread would be available on the Desire, which has been one of the most successful Android phones sold in Australia. The news was discovered after a post on an HTC Facebook page said that there isn’t enough memory for both HTC Sense and Gingerbread to co-exist.
The Facebook posting said: “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”.
“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 manufacturer concludes.
HTC executives in Australia have not responded to the news.
Several carriers who sold the HTC Desire have been promising its customers that they would be getting Gingerbread as soon as it was released.
The decision by HTC to abandon the Android 2.3 update comes as the company gets set to launch the new HTC Sensation in Australia. Several countries including India have already got the Sensation which does run Gingerbread.
Speculation is rife that HTC is set to discontinue the Desire when the Sensation is launched in Australia.
