{"id":23744,"date":"2011-11-15T07:31:48","date_gmt":"2011-11-15T14:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/15\/the-gingerbread-cometh.html"},"modified":"2011-11-15T10:01:09","modified_gmt":"2011-11-15T17:01:09","slug":"the-gingerbread-cometh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/15\/the-gingerbread-cometh.html","title":{"rendered":"The Gingerbread Cometh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently the AndroidOS &quot;Gingerbread&quot; upgrade (2.3.4) is now once again being pushed out to HTC Incredible phones.  (One distinct downside to the Android world is that OS upgrades have to route through the handset manufacturers first, so they can make their UI overlay work properly with it; then they have to coordinate with the carriers, Verizon in my case, to actually push it out.  The Apple model is a lot simpler.)<\/p>\n<p>As far as what the upgrade does for me vs the v2.2 OS &#8230; well, not much so far as I can tell, feature-wise.  Supposedly it is more stable and runs faster, plus it whitens teeth, freshens breath, and makes you popular at parties.  <\/p>\n<p>If my phone bursts into flames, y&#39;all will be among the first to know. #ddtb<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/support.verizonwireless.com\/pdf\/system_update\/incredible.pdf'>http:\/\/support.verizonwireless.com\/pdf\/system_update\/incredible.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently the AndroidOS &quot;Gingerbread&quot; upgrade (2.3.4) is now once again being pushed out to HTC Incredible phones. (One distinct downside to the Android world is that OS upgrades have to route through the handset manufacturers first, so they can make their UI overlay work properly with it; then they have to coordinate with the carriers, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/15\/the-gingerbread-cometh.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Gingerbread Cometh&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,65],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-23744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-my-mobile-pda","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":153528,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2021\/03\/07\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years.html","url_meta":{"origin":23744,"position":0},"title":"Still chatty after all these years","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 7-Mar-21 12:30am","format":false,"excerpt":"The Stupid Evil Podcast is ... well, it was fun.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;DDtB-SEB Podcasts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"DDtB-SEB Podcasts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/podcasts\/ddtb-seb-podcasts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":136275,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/06\/and-lo-there-shall-come-another-seb-podcast.html","url_meta":{"origin":23744,"position":1},"title":"And, lo, there shall come another SEB Podcast!","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 6-May-18 2:56pm","format":false,"excerpt":"It's been an astonishing three years since +Les Jenkins and I did one of his Stupid Evil Bastard podcasts (the biggest takeaway from which was that it had been three years since we previously did it, and that was clearly way, way too long). 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