On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 8:21 PM, Allen Curtis <[email protected]> wrote: > I see lots of devices being shipped with Froyo. There are lots of tables > announced with the future honeycomb version. > > Why aren't vendors delivering products with gingerbread?
Gingerbread has only been available for a couple of months. It takes more time than that for a device manufacturer to get that OS into the pipeline for new products. This is no different than with any other Android release. I would expect more products to ship with Android 2.3 in the second quarter of 2011. Some device manufacturers, notably tablet makers, elected to put their products on hold, waiting for Honeycomb. Since fewer tablets will have telephony capability, these *might* come to market a tad faster than their phone brethren, but I am still not expecting all those CES tablets to ship until the second half of 2011. Each Android release seems to have one device manufacturer that is working hand-in-glove with Google for that release. That manufacturer's devices will ship with the newer OS faster than anyone else. For example, Samsung worked with Google on Gingerbread, leading to the Nexus S. Motorola is working with Google on Honeycomb, leading to the XOOM (which really feels like it needs more O's, like XOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM, but that's another story). And so on. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com | http://github.com/commonsguy http://commonsware.com/blog | http://twitter.com/commonsguy Android Training...At Your Office: http://commonsware.com/training -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
