HTC Desire Gingerbread update is now coming, says HTC

In a bizarre turn of events, HTC has now re-confirmed that its HTC Desire handset will indeed be getting updated to Android Gingerbread, despite claiming yesterday that the handset didn’t have enough memory to run both Gingerbread and Sense.

At least, that was the case. Now, it’s no longer true – Android 2.3 is coming to the HTC Desire. But how is HTC going to achieve this? Didn’t it just say the Desire doesn’t have the internals for Android 2.3?

Simple, HTC is going to make some choice tweaks and amendments – AKA: cuts – to the update so that it’ll suit the Desire’s RAM capabilities.

Here’s the new official line, again via HTC’s Facebook page:

‘To resolve Desire's memory issue and enable the upgrade to Gingerbread, we will cut select apps from the release. Look for status updates starting next week. We apologize for any confusion.’

But what will these cuts be? Where will they be implemented? And what kind of affect will it have on the Desire? Pocket-Lint is pretty worried about this, and rightly so too.

At present, no one knows. So what’s a Desire user to do? Well, we’d say wait and see how the update turns out (cuts-an-all) before you rush out and get the update. That way, you can see what the pros and cons are and, most importantly, what kind of cuts HTC has made.

Granted this will be quite annoying, especially if you’ve been dying to get Android 2.3 on your Desire, but it’s definitely the sensible approach. After all, you don’t want to turn your HTC Desire into a HTC Hero – Android 2.3 ain’t worth that.