HTC Desire 2.2 (Froyo) OTA Update within 8 weeks

An HTC Spokes person recently said:

"We are working hard with our partners to update the HTC Sense experience on Froyo and distribute it to our customers as fast as possible," said the spokesman.
"We expect to release updates for several of our 2010 models including Desire, Legend and Wildfire beginning in Q3."

Well, we are in the middle of Q3 at the moment so we should be expecting an OTA upgrade anytime now, seeing that leaked ROMS have already been installed on the desire albeit on rooted phones, the day is indeed neigh.

Speaking of Froyo, Samsung have also announced that they will be upgrading the Galaxy S, but have not given any firm dates yet. This is so typical of Samsung; they really need to sort out their support if they wish to remain competitive. Although the Galaxy S is slightly superior to the Desire, I am glad I went for the Desire; but in terms of support the Nexus One would have bee a better bet.

Thank God all this waiting for upgrades will soon come to an end. You see the reason why the Nexus One is already on Android 2.2 is because it does not have a skin overlay (HTC Sense on the Desire and Touch Wiz on the Galaxy S). There is no tweaking necessary, and new versions of Android can be installed directly to the phone. Google have taken a leaf out of Apples book and the stock Android 3 (Gingerbread) ships with a very user friendly interface, rumors say that it is based largely on HTC Sense. The result of this will eliminate the necessity for companies to create their own overlays. Don’t get me wrong, some companies will still have the ability to create overlays, but these will run as apps that can be added and removed as required, very similar to the current ADW app.