Your smartphone and / or tablet is just begging to get updated. Occasionally, these mobile devices are blessed with maintenance refreshes, bug fixes, custom ROMs and anything in between, and such a lot of of them are floating around that it is simple for a large chunk to wander off inside the mix. To make certain they do not escape all of sudden, we’ve gathered every possible update, hack, and other miscellaneous tomfoolery from the last week and crammed them into one convenient roundup. When you find something available to your device, please give us a shout attips at engadget dawt com and tell us. Enjoy!
Official Android updates
Guess which phone’s finally getting Gingerbread: the HTC Thunderbolt . Yes, we’re being serious. [Attributable to everyone who sent this in, and thanks Eddie for the picture!]
Gingerbread is now rolling out to the Motorola Droid Pro and Droid 2 Global. [ PhoneScoop ]
The HTC EVO Design 4G wasn’t out for terribly long before it was ready for a maintenance release. It’s called version 1.19.651.0, and no change log was found in an instant.
More HTC stuff: the EVO 3D also offers a small bug fix within the kind of a safety update under the name of version 2.08.651.3. [ AndroidCentral ]
The LG Revolution on Verizon’s also officially gaining Android 2.3. [ Pocketnow ]
Within the UK, HTC Desire S owners at the moment are finding themselves beneficiaries of the Android 2.3.5 firmware update in addition to Sense 3.0. [ AndroidCentral ]
How a few couple for the little guys? CSpire, formerly referred to as Cellular South, is pushing Gingerbread to its Samsung Galaxy S and Motorola Milestone X. [ AndroidCentral(1) and ( 0 2 0 )]
Sony Ericsson announced this week that Android 2.3.4 is rolling out to the 2011 Xperia lineup worldwide. Additional enhancements include 16x video zoom, WiFi DLNA, screen capture capability, ability to connect USB peripherals to Sony Ericsson LiveDock and more.
Unofficial Android updates, custom ROMs and misc. hackery
The Samsung Stratosphere on Verizon was successfully rooted. [ 1 AndroidCommunity 1 ]
HTC devices receiving the official 2 Gingerbread kernel source 2 from HTCDev this week: The Evo Shift 4G, the Thunderbolt and Droid Incredible. [ 3 AndroidCentral 3 ]
When it rains, it pours — the Thunderbolt, on top of receiving Gingerbread and its accompanying kernel source, has also found itself at the receiving end of an Ice Cream Sandwich SDK port. As may be expected, it’s still in prealpha stages and has several bugs to determine. [ 4 AndroidCommunity 4 ]
If you are a CM7 user, there’s now a file available with the intention to turn your lock screen into one who resembles Ice Cream Sandwich’s style. [ 5 Droid-Life 5 ]
Other platforms
Microsoft’s pushing a firmware upgrade to the LG Optimus 7 Windows Phone which seems to grace the device with WiFi tethering and the facility to find hidden WiFi networks. [ 6 WMPowerUser 6 ]
It is not a BlackBerry firmware update, but plenty of people still have a soft spot for BBM and should have an interest to understand that RIM is putting out version 6.0.1 with a couple of enhancements. Head to the source to ascertain it out. [ 7 MobileTechReview 7 ]
Refreshes we covered this week
8 Windows Phone Mango now being brought to 100 pc of compatible devices 8
9 Windows Phone Apollo coming ‘middle of next year,’ says Nokia VP 9
0 Nokia N8 gets Symbian Anna service pack update 0
1 Symbian Anna update rolls out to compatible Nokia smartphones within the US 1
2 Motorola Xoom gets updated with Ice Cream Sandwich 2
3 Ice Cream Sandwich supports USB game controllers and HDMI 3
4 RIM confirms PlayBook OS 2.0 delayed until February, still no BBM in sight 4
5 Sprint issues OTA fix for HTC Android handset vulnerability 5
Samsung Zipel oven takes instructions out of your Android phone
White House gets behind online ‘bill of rights,’ companies to adopt ‘do not track’
