Android Gingerbread coming this week

At the moment there’s an exciting rumour doing the rounds on tech news sites. The word is that the next version of Android aka Gingerbread, will be hitting the Nexus One phones within a few days.

It all started when Android Police spotted a tweet from Alvaro Fuentes Vasquez via his Twitter account saying as much.

According to this guy’s LinkedIn profile, he’s a member of the Open Handset Alliance team so he’s surely got to know something about it.

The tweet was in Spanish of course and for those familiar with the language here’s what it said:

“Preparen sus Nexus One (Developer version) para la actualización vía OTA de Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) para los próximos días ”

A rough translation goes like this: “Prepare your Nexus One (Developer version) for Android OTA update 2.3 (Gingerbread) for the next few days:-D”

Not that it matters much but the first thing we notice is that the tweet didn’t refer to Gingerbread as update 3.0 but as update 2.3.

Now we’ve no way of knowing if it’s actually true but bear in mind that there have already been unsubstantiated reports that Gingerbread would made an appearance on November 11th it looks pretty compelling.

Also, a number of sites are reporting that an imminent update to Adobe Flash 10.1, which is supposedly going to fix a security problem, also points to an imminent Gingerbread release.

The Flash update description says “ATTENTION: Please install the upcoming 11/9 update (ver. 10.1.105.x) to ensure that Flash Player loads properly with future OS updates”.

Could the future operating system updates be referring to Android 2.3?

We haven’t had an update to Android 2.2 (Froyo) since May and there’s quite a bit of eager anticipation surrounding the next generation of Android and here’s why.

It’s supposedly going to speed things up quite a bit which is always good. There’s also talk that we’ll see a much improved user interface with more colour (Android Green), there’s kinetic scrolling with animations on the cards, possibly built in video chat, more ways to communicate including being able to receive calls via Wi-Fi or 3G, a better gaming experience and much more.

However, until Gingerbread arrives we’ve no way of knowing exactly what to expect but by all accounts it doesn’t look like we’re going to have to wait much longer to find out.

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