{"id":4231,"date":"2011-09-08T13:54:57","date_gmt":"2011-09-08T18:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techcitement.com\/?p=4231"},"modified":"2011-09-20T11:53:12","modified_gmt":"2011-09-20T16:53:12","slug":"htc-droid-incredible-has-sweet-surprise-with-gingerbread-android-2-3-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/software\/htc-droid-incredible-has-sweet-surprise-with-gingerbread-android-2-3-update\/","title":{"rendered":"HTC Droid Incredible Has Sweet Surprise With Gingerbread (Android 2.3) Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While desperately searching for the snooze button on my HTC Droid Incredible this morning, I found the most welcome and unexpected sight: a popup notification that Android&#8217;s 2.3.4 (Gingerbread) upgrade was ready to be pushed to my phone. After the upgrade was completed (and my impromptu early morning happy dance), I tried the new version of Android&#8217;s software out.<\/p>\n<p>The best news to report is that Gingerbread has fixed the Incredible&#8217;s infamous battery problem. I tried bump charging the battery this morning and got a green light immediately, the first time that&#8217;s happened in the nine months since I got the Incredible. That&#8217;ll take a few days of use to verify completely, but I&#8217;m hopeful and tentatively techcited that my phone won&#8217;t lose 10 percent of its charge in the first two minutes off the charger.<\/p>\n<p>Based on what I&#8217;ve seen so far, I&#8217;m impressed with the update. Here are a few highlights I noticed:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Startup took about third or less time than it did on Android 2.2 (Froyo).<\/li>\n<li>Transition from desktop to application (and vice versa) is softened quite a bit. It&#8217;s so smooth it almost makes me want to take a nap.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0A new <em>Downloads<\/em> button, which is a much appreciated addition for those of us who can never find that PDF we downloaded last week.<\/li>\n<li>New default image for callers who aren&#8217;t in my address book.<\/li>\n<li>A new ringtone or two, though I can&#8217;t swear to that. I haven&#8217;t looked in that menu for some time.<\/li>\n<li>Assorted small UI changes that I noticed today, but will take for granted from now on.<\/li>\n<li>And of course, there are undoubtedly a hundred small tweaks under the hood that the user doesn&#8217;t see.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Not bad for an early morning surprise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While desperately searching for the snooze button on my HTC Droid Incredible this morning, I found the most welcome and unexpected sight: a popup notification that Android&#8217;s 2.3.4 (Gingerbread) upgrade was ready to be pushed to my phone. After the upgrade was completed (and my impromptu early morning happy dance), I tried the new version [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4233,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1085,38],"tags":[514,242,107,6,1266],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4231"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4231"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4564,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4231\/revisions\/4564"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}