Google have finally come clean about the newest release of Android. As the rumours suggested, Gingerbread is indeed version 2.3. It isn’t a huge overhaul of Android, but rather many refinements under the hood and more UI tweaks and enhancements; Honeycomb 3.0, expected early next year, is the one that’s supposed to be the next major release. As well as officially announcing the release, Google have also seen it fit to already begin rolling over the air updates to Nexus One owners, so watch out for the update if you’re a lucky enough to own one. If not, there’s the Nexus S expected to be on sale on the 20th of December. Click through to see a brief summary of the tweaks and improvements over Froyo:

 

 

• Simplified visual theme
• Redesigned on-screen keyboard
• Better word selection & copy/paste implementation
• Improved power management
• Native application manager
• Easier to develop games for
• NFC integration
• Gyroscope support
• Improved download manager
• Integrated VoIP support
• Native video calling

 

Posted by: Vince