Let the baking begin!

[Bateluer]

http://www.engadget.com/2010/12/07/gingerbread-roms-start-cooking-for-galaxy-s-evo-4g-et-al-keyb/

You can have your doubts about when your phone maker will finally get around to delivering an Android 2.3 update (March if you're with HTC, June if Samsung, 2017 if you're unfortunate enough to own a Sony Ericsson), but the smartphone dev community doesn't work that slowly. The guys who build custom ROMs just for the sheer pride of it have already begun work on delivering Gingerbread to owners of HTC's EVO 4G, Droid Eris, and Wildfire. It's all in the very nascent stages and warnings abound that you should only install these ROMs if you intend to contribute to the development process, but it does give us hope for a consumable new OS in the not so distant future. One thing that does look ready to be gobbled up, however, is Gingerbread's new software keyboard -- you'll find the download and installation instructions at the Droid-Life link below, just remember to bring your rooted Android phone along.

Kinda surprising to see the Eris, but I guess if they can shoe horn CM 6.1 onto a G1, they can shove Gingerbread onto the similarly powered Eris.

 

[dlock13]

I wish my Droid X was open..

 

[abaez]

The Droid X will have 2.3 as fast as any other phones. There are already three high profile devs working on it.

I'm already trying out the new keyboard.

 

[Bateluer]

The Droid X will have 2.3 as fast as any other phones. There are already three high profile devs working on it.

Doubtful, unless the devs figure out how to use Moto's Froyo kernel to work with Gingerbread. May not be feasible until a Moto GB build leaks.

 

[foghorn67]

Any love for the OG Droid?

 

[Fingolfin269]

Anyone tried the keyboard? Thought I'd ask before downloading.

 

[Bateluer]

Anyone tried the keyboard? Thought I'd ask before downloading.

I flashed it last night on my Droid 1. It seems to be functional, you do need to turn on the predictive text to see the punctuation bar though. I like it better than the Froyo keyboard.

 

[DisgruntledVirus]

I'll most likely want to keep Swype.

 

[Spoooon]

Anyone tried the keyboard? Thought I'd ask before downloading.

I like it, just wish you could tone down the vibrate on keypress.