HTC has released the Gingerbread update will be released for the Desire. Because the smartphonefabrikant the necessary concessions had to do to get Android 2.3 on the older device working, is the update not over-the-air offered.
HTC has as expected the update will be released that the Desire can be updated to Android 2.3, also known as Gingerbread. According to HTC the update is only for developers and not for the general public. The update is, therefore, not over-the-air offer, and is only to be installed by the phone to the computer and the updater to start.
To Gingerbread on the Desire working, HTC has the necessary concessions to have to do. The unit came out in april 2010 and one of the downsides is the small storage memory of 512MB on the phone. This memory must be re-classified for Gingerbread, so all user data will be erased.
With the update, it disappears a number of HTC applications which are available to download on the HTC Developer website. The same is true for the previously supplied wallpapers. Also the Facebook app, that release is to download it from the Android Market, has to abandon the field.
The update is not compatible with a number of regional variations of the Desire, who abroad have been released, including devices of Deutsche Telekom in Germany and variants from North – and South-America, South Korea and Japan. These devices can after the update you may not send sms or mms messages sending. The Gingerbread-update is to download it from the HTC Developer site.