HTC Desire Will See The Gingerbread Update Afterall

Yesterday we reported that HTC had announced that due to memory constraints that the HTC Desire will not be able to receive the Gingerbread 2.3 update which probably left many HTC Desires angry and frustrated. Some have speculated that these memory constraints were due to the Sense UI that HTC uses as a custom UI for their Android device, which would just bloat up the device unnecessarily, although now with HTC promising unlocked bootloaders, bloatware from custom UI’s from handset manufacturers should not be an issue in the future.

“The hardware itself can certainly handle Gingerbread,” Steve Kondik, creator of popular Android modification software CyanogenMod, told Wired.com. “A standard build of Android fits just fine, but once HTC adds their stuff to it (Sense UI and everything that goes with it), there is no way it will fit.”

Now it looks in less than a day HTC has decided to respond to that outcry by HTC Desire users and the community in general by saying “Contrary to what we said earlier, we are going to bring Gingerbread to HTC Desire.” No word on the reason behind their 180 but either way it’s got to be a good thing for HTC Desire users, who for a fleeting moment thought they might have made a mistake buying the device.