Gingerbread Releasing In Mid-October? Liquid To Be Left Behind

[Guest Charlton22]

Stop comparing, they're totally different.

For now we don't know anything about 3.0, and we all know that when we bought our liquids we were buying a budget priced phone. And even though I (and probably we) would really like to be up to date and have the latest version of pretty much everything, we just can't expect to get that for what we paid.

Start saving for the third generation androids already :lol:

Yep! Agreed!

[Guest Ultimate Chicken]

Well meh, I was hoping Google didn't become another Intel/AMD (they love changing specs and obsoleting hardware every 6 months, even for expensive boards). Looks like I was wrong.

[Guest alan090]

Well meh, I was hoping Google didn't become another Intel/AMD (they love changing specs and obsoleting hardware every 6 months, even for expensive boards). Looks like I was wrong.

mate the way of the world is changing - processors and gpu becomes faster and smaller every month

you think that google is not going to take advantage of this? they do have to compete against apple you know

[Guest G_Technik]

I hope we'll find the way to solder 512 MB RAM and we'll get 3.0 at Liquid!

[Guest Quipeace]

I hope we'll find the way to solder 512 MB RAM and we'll get 3.0 at Liquid!

Funny guy :lol:

[Guest bais]

I'm surprised by the reactions there.

Well, when you got a device that is not a Nexus One, did you seriously expect it to be updated for more than one Big update?

Look at Samsung and LG phones, hell even some HTC ones, they get one "small" update (1.5-1.6) and that's it.

So we have a fully packed 2.1 update (and more with custom ROMS), a 2.2 port by phh and Acer announced 2.2 for Liquid (Well maybe in 2011 xD).

Well 2 big updates that's already not bad. And by the way, this is just rumor, I tend to not completely believe those ones, even though it seems that this one isn't fake.

[Guest Swallow74]

When Gingerbread will become mainstream on smartphones, Liquid will be dead ;-) At start, Android 3.0 will be dedicate mainly to tablets and very hi-end smartphone. On mainstream smartphones we'll continue to see Android 2.2 for a long time

[Guest fischschneehase]

When Gingerbread will become mainstream on smartphones, Liquid will be dead ;-) At start, Android 3.0 will be dedicate mainly to tablets and very hi-end smartphone. On mainstream smartphones we'll continue to see Android 2.2 for a long time

right but i would also say that atm the liquid IS a high end phone.

cause for example all these new 3d gameloft games which only where desined to run on the n1 or desire run on our liquid very stable and fast in some cases also they run better than on the desire :lol:

[Guest Auxx]

1. Did you buy smarthphone or abstract brick for playing with Android? I bought myself a smartphone. I was using stock 1.6 till the latest 1.000.5 leak of 2.1 and it was a pleasure.

2. We still don't have ANY 2.2 devices in the shops, only 2.1 devices with updates (if vendors are so nice to provide one). Gingerbread does not target today devices, they target next year devices. Next year 1GHz with one CPU kernel will be low-end.

3. This is ideological hardware target, not technical. Gingerbread will be portable to any device if needed. But it is a big push to move 1GHz devices to low-end. It means CPUs will improve faster, overall performance will be better and it is a good thing.

[Guest Swallow74]

right but i would also say that atm the liquid IS a high end phone.

cause for example all these new 3d gameloft games which only where desined to run on the n1 or desire run on our liquid very stable and fast in some cases also they run better than on the desire :lol:

Liquid WAS an hi-end smartphone ;-) Maybe Liquid still be an hi-end smartphone, but you must account that Gingerbread will be released on October (if all goes well), firsts smartphones with it will arrive at end of current year, and it will become mainstream on 2011. In 2011 Liquid will be an old piece of technology ;-) This don't mean that you'll must change it: but you cannot pretend that a budget phone like Liquid officially support a third major release of Android since its birth.

Anyway, I agreed with Auxx: "this is ideological hardware target, not technical". I'm sure that community will port Android 3.0 also on Liquid :D

Edited July 2, 2010 by Swallow74

[Guest Borkata]

People don't worry about Liquid not running 3.0, because it will no matter with porting or official update.

When HTC Hero (with more ram came out) to port rom to G1 different techniques was used like compcache and apps2sd, so fact we have 256MB ram won't stop us from having 3.0. Question is how will be performance :lol:

[Guest HustlinDaily]

Overclock a Liquid E to 998MHz and it pretty much has the same specs as a Nexus (which probably will get the update).

[Guest HustlinDaily]

Liquid WAS an hi-end smartphone ;-) Maybe Liquid still be an hi-end smartphone, but you must account that Gingerbread will be released on October (if all goes well), firsts smartphones with it will arrive at end of current year, and it will become mainstream on 2011. In 2011 Liquid will be an old piece of technology ;-) This don't mean that you'll must change it: but you cannot pretend that a budget phone like Liquid officially support a third major release of Android since its birth.

Anyway, I agreed with Auxx: "this is ideological hardware target, not technical". I'm sure that community will port Android 3.0 also on Liquid :lol:

Technology evolves so crazy.

One day, it is the most powerful Android phone on the market. One year later, outdated.

Can't wait to see what we will have one year after that.

[Guest fischschneehase]

Technology evolves so crazy.

One day, it is the most powerful Android phone on the market. One year later, outdated.

Can't wait to see what we will have one year after that.

a flying phone with arms and leg :lol: XD

[Guest HustlinDaily]

Or 3D videocalling

[Guest Andy__P]

Just throwing this in here:

http://gizmodo.com/5578055/android-gingerb...ogle-on-twitter

[Guest fischschneehase]

Just throwing this in here:

http://gizmodo.com/5578055/android-gingerb...ogle-on-twitter

wel this is what i would call good news for us :lol: XD

[Guest Charlton22]

"1 Ghz, 512 Mb etc its not minimal requirments but recommended one." :lol:

[Guest feetoch]

christ, thinking i m still waiting for 2.1 or 2.2, just like spiderman and the train, we are stopping dead at end of the 2.2 track.

[Guest Apocangel]

This is just wishful thinking but if Acer puts out a Liquid with Android 3.0 that looks the same or similar to the Liquid and LiquidE (ive seen bricks taht look better than the Liquid Stream) Im paying whatever they ask for it.

[Guest thenext1]

Well meh, I was hoping Google didn't become another Intel/AMD (they love changing specs and obsoleting hardware every 6 months, even for expensive boards). Looks like I was wrong.

Totally agree.

Google 0has been in a killing spree of fatal flaws and subsequent reviewed&fixed re-releases after a short time.

Android 2.0 was replaced in no time with 2.1 (only Droid/Milestone ever had 2.0 preeinstalled, IIRC).

Android 2.1 lacked what most users longed for (JIT) and we're now drooling for it. WTF did they not wait and release 2.1 with 2.2 features???

Android 2.2 has been out for couple days and google is already spreading info on a major version update - doubt that it will be only UI changes.

Each OS did not last more than 6 months.

Yet Android 3.0 will set a big hardware requirement so...

Will now have some phones with Android "Pro" version and some other with the "Poor" version? This story reminds me of WM PPC / SmartPhone.

Will now have a power race between processors, instead of a well thought system optimization? iPhone 3G doing smooth gfx with a 400mhz processor comes to mind.

[Guest HustlinDaily]

Keep in mind that this is an OS in its infancy which is trying to compete with the heavyweights like iOS (it may be a shitty OS but many people like it)/Symbian/WebOS/BlackberryOS/WP.

In order for it to match up against those which have been around and successful for several years, Google has to put out the best product possible if they want to take a hold of this competitive market.

I personally think that the feature set of 2.2 is better than any of the above mentioned OS' but Google will probably do more refining, making it smoother and just putting out the best product on the market (like they did with search, advertising and web browsers).

Google has already promised that updates will slow down to once per year after 3.0 comes out.