Google's Gingerbread Man Has Arrived

Daetrin writes "Last weekend Google received the next statue in the sweets-themed series that commemorates the major updates of the Android OS. In the past this has meant that the release of the next SDK was right around the corner. However this time there's some doubt as to what the version number will actually be. Many sites (including Slashdot) have assumed that 'Gingerbread' was synonymous with '3.0,' but now there's some evidence that everyone may have jumped the gun and the next version will actually be 2.3."

Comments

And this is important because?

[whizbang77045]

I may be missing something, but what does it matter if it's 3.0, 2.3, named strawberry pie, or whatever? How does this impact our quality of life?

Mea culpa

[Daetrin]

Sorry about that, i originally had the second link, which includes a video of the unwrapping, as the first link. But then i decided to swap them because the (currently) second one went into more detail about the version confusion. I spent some time looking for a good article with a picture of the entire lineup of statues as well, but decided i already had too many links. As you seem to have noticed already there are a lot of copies of the video around but not a lot of simple pictures, at least not associated with decent articles so far.

newer phones

[mschoolbus]

It's good to see cheaper android phones coming out soon.

I am still waiting to upgrade from my g1 to the g2, if they can ever perma-root that thing!

Re:Android development is moving too fast

[Drathus]

The response from Rubin about the rumored requirements for Gingerbread was, "Don't believe everything you hear."