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By engadget, on September 19th, 2011%
 If you’re on Australia’s Telstra network and you’re still clinging to hope of an OTA Gingerbread update for your beloved HTC Desire, then now it’s officially time to let go. For a while it looked like Telstra might opt for a smart workaround to the old handset’s lack of memory, but now the operator’s update page makes it clear that it has fallen in line with the wider HTC stance: Android 2.3 just isn’t viable on this device, unless you’re prepared to go off-piste with the developer build or an unofficial ROM . [Thanks, Jack] Game over: Telstra won’t be Gingerbreading the HTC Desire after all originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:01:00 EDT . . . → Read More: Game over: Telstra won’t be Gingerbreading the HTC Desire after all
By engadget, on July 24th, 2011%
 Your smartphone and / or tablet is just begging to get updated. From time to time, these mobile devices are blessed with maintenance refreshes, bug fixes, custom ROMs and anything in between, and so many of them are floating around that it’s easy for a sizable chunk to get lost in the mix . . . → Read More: Refresh Roundup: week of July 18, 2011
By engadget, on July 15th, 2011%
 The HTC Desire family used to be close-knit, but then the Gingerbread update came along and gave preferential treatment to the Desire HD. . . . → Read More: HTC Desire Z Gingerbread update rolls out in the land of the Bratwurst
By engadget, on June 24th, 2011%
 What’s this we spy in the dusty depths of a Telstra software update page? A little sentence that displays some crowd-pleasing logic in bringing Android 2.3 to the hoary old Desire. . . . → Read More: Telstra will scrap Sense UI to make room for Gingerbread on the HTC Desire
By engadget, on June 16th, 2011%
 What happens when you take a great phone and throw a handful of red plastic and metal at it? Why, an exclusive red Vodafone Desire S, that’s what. Pocket-lint had an opportunity to fondle the new iteration, and, not surprisingly, concluded that new tint aside nothing else — unlike the ChaCha which has seen a 200Mhz speed boost since launch — has changed . . . → Read More: Vodafone’s vermilion veneered HTC Desire S gets a hands-on
By engadget, on June 14th, 2011%
 After months attempting to bring the Desire up to speed with Android 2.3 , HTC is throwing in the towel, and it doesn’t have much more than a comments section full of disappointed handset owners to show for it. The UK branch of the phone manufacturer announced via its Facebook page that attempts to upgrade the Nexus One-esque smartphone to Gingerbread have proven fruitless, due to a lack of internal memory on the device . . . → Read More: HTC Desire tries to catch Gingerbread, can’t keep up
By engadget, on June 14th, 2011%
 After months attempting to bring the Desire up to speed with Android 2.3 , HTC is throwing in the towel, and it doesn’t have much more than a comments section full of disappointed handset owners to show for it. The UK branch of the phone manufacturer announced via its Facebook page that attempts to upgrade the Nexus One-esque smartphone to Gingerbread have proven fruitless, due to a lack of internal memory on the device . . . → Read More: HTC Desire tries to catch Gingerbread, can’t keep up
By engadget, on May 27th, 2011%
 Jealous of your Nexus S-owning friends and their fancy NFC chips after yesterday’s Google Wallet announcement? Well tech tinkerer Joe Desbonnet has whipped up what he dubs “poor man’s NFC” using an Arduino , some magnet wire, and any compass-equipped Android smartphone (which is almost all of them). By placing a coil of wire on the phone and connecting it to the DIYer’s favorite microcontroller, Desbonnet was able to send data, albeit very slowly, to his HTC Desire running a special app to decode the signals . . . → Read More: Arduino, magnet wire, and Android combine to create poor man’s NFC (video)
By engadget, on April 21st, 2011%
 When we last checked in with HTC’s Desire, an upgrade from Android 2.2 to 2.3 had been announced for release in late May or June. While Gingerbread hasn’t officially rolled out for this Nexus One kin, the crew at 911Sniper recently leaked the Desire’s upcoming European / Asian ROM, complete with Android 2.3.3 and Sense 2.1. Many daring enthusiasts have already taken the plunge, reporting mixed results with flashing their device. . . . → Read More: HTC Desire gets unsanctioned build of Android 2.3.3 courtesy of 911Sniper
By engadget, on February 27th, 2011%
 When it launched the Incredible S at MWC a couple of weeks ago, HTC promised the new 4-inch device would be quick to get a Gingerbread update and now it’s giving us a definitive schedule for it by saying that Android 2.3 will be distributed to its new flagship phone by the end of Q2 2011. We’re not sure four months of sitting by the window waiting for the OTA update to float in necessarily matches up to our definition of “quick,” but there are much better news for owners of HTC’s older devices . . . → Read More: HTC Incredible S, Desire HD, Desire Z and original Desire will all be eating Gingerbread by the end of June
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