HTC will ship all Android phones in China with Froyo on board, fuels fire for immediate update closer to home

A wordy headline, to be sure, but a pleasing one nonetheless. We came across HTC's Chinese web portal listing the Desire as coming with Android 2.2 (with Sense!) and simply had to ping the official source for confirmation. It turns out the info up there is no mistake: all HTC Android handsets shipping to China -- which includes the Wildfire and Tianyi -- will do so with Froyo preloaded, cutting down on your upgrade angst at least until the Gingerbread man comes a'knocking. HTC has also reiterated that a 2.2 update for its phones already on the market will be delivered "very soon," so if all goes well, we should be looking at a Froyo-dominated August in the land of High Tech Computers.

[Thanks, Christian]

[jj1814 Posted Jul 29th 2010 9:57AM]

@Wesscoast


did you forget about required carrier customizations?

[cdf74dc9 Posted Jul 29th 2010 5:02AM]

Good for HTC for exposing an "open" platform to other countries. Now I just have to wait for that special someone in the other countries to came up with an awesome apps... Possibly more kitten wallpaper.

[edtate480 Posted Jul 29th 2010 5:49AM]

Dammit china! What happened to the great us of a getting everything first?

[Poppajonzz Posted Jul 29th 2010 6:12AM]

Yay! Once this happens there will be even more froyo roms for my eris!

Sent from my froyoEris

[neeko18 Posted Jul 29th 2010 6:39AM]

great..time to flash my Evo back to stock..

[Impulses Posted Jul 29th 2010 6:51AM]

@neeko18 Why bother? Whenever there's an update there's usually a rooted version of it available at XDA within a day or two... I'd rather wait an extra day than risk losing root access forever if the new update ends up blocking w/e vulnerability was being used before. Then again, Froyo may address two of the main three reasons why I rooted my EVO, full backups and WiFi tether; tho the later is pretty unlikely. Third reason being the highly optimized user-dev ROMs...

[xboomer Posted Jul 29th 2010 7:38AM]

Reading this on an N1 and the Engadget app and using the trackball to advance the comments pages.

Very convenient!

[Shalabi Posted Jul 29th 2010 7:50AM]

How do ya like d'em apples??

[Landwomble Posted Jul 29th 2010 8:35AM]

I'm running Froyo on my Desire courtesy of XDA Devs. Rocks. On 2.1 original ROM got 7.8Mflops. On Froyo I get 39Mflops. It's fast as hell, it adds some very cool features like the LED torch (which is *super* bright), wireless hotspot, and on the new radio I'm getting 1.87mb down in the center of town. It's very, very good.

[Megazine Posted Jul 29th 2010 8:47AM]

One word FRAGMENTATION.

[tractor Posted Jul 29th 2010 9:36AM]

I want to buy one. Help me?Anyone going to China?

[archkron Posted Jul 29th 2010 9:49AM]

Now if only I get actually get the Desire in the UK... it's sold out on nearly every online store.

[Spynaldo Posted Jul 29th 2010 10:16AM]

Please 2.2 for EVO!!!!!

[kstagg Posted Jul 29th 2010 10:28AM]

Ok, now that we're getting Froyo. Is Gingerbread on the EVO a foregone conclusion? I'm not talking about a rooted EVO. I'm talking about an official upgrade to Gingerbread.

[bufbarnaby Posted Jul 29th 2010 10:40AM]

Wow...China gets FROYO before us ?
I want my FROYO , damn it !

[Shaggy Posted Jul 29th 2010 11:49AM]

I'm sick of waiting... hearing more news about how it will be released soon... and waiting more... Would you hurry up and release the update already!!?? My EVO needs this now.

[crow610 Posted Jul 29th 2010 11:56AM]

分裂！

[bufbarnaby Posted Jul 29th 2010 12:25PM]

Never wanted anything more than Froyo.

[themadczech Posted Jul 29th 2010 12:26PM]

Froyo (aka FroydVillain from villainrom.co.uk) on my HTC Hero, never been faster! According to HTC, Hero is not powerful enough.

Guess this mostly signals HTC's poor support for current devices than anything else. We've seen it with their 2.1 update for Hero.

[ThisIsNotCNN Posted Jul 29th 2010 5:32PM]

Don't make me laugh!
HTC Hero owners have been promised 2.1 "Next Week" for nearly a year, and if it weren't for all the diy rom on the net, most HTC owners would still be stuck on 1.6