AT&T’s Samsung Infuse 4G finally receives Gingerbread update

While phones and tablets out there are eagerly waiting to receive the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update, it looks like the AT&T Samsung Infuse 4G has finally received the Gingerbread update. Yes you read that right, in a market where Android Gingerbread has slowly become the more dominant version of Android available for smartphones, there are still some devices out there only just receiving the update, but we guess better late than never, right?

The update will be bringing the Infuse 4G to Android 2.3.6 and apart from the usual Gingerbread goodies, this is what users can expect to see from the update:

• Improved Copy and Paste functionality
• Redesigned Multi Touch Software Keyboard
• Download manager for long running HTTP downloads
• Improved power management and application control
• Notification Shade: “Flight Mode” added (“Silent” removed)
• New Fonts options added include Choco Cooky, Cool Jazz, Rosemary
• Keyboard Changes: Android Keyboard with Wider Spaced keys and Quick Keys at the top
• New Widgets: The name of the content provider will be listed on the widget list along with the widget name. Previously only the widget name was provided.
• New Widget: Traffic (Android) added to list of available widgets
• Menu Changes/New Apps: Downloads and Google Books added new, Promotional pre-load of Angry Birds removed.

Unfortunately at the moment it seems that the link AT&T provided to the Gingerbread 2.3.6 update is dead, and since this will not be an OTA update, we suggest you hang tight for the moment while AT&T sorts this out! [AT&T forums]