That unexpected Android 2.3 update for the old original Xperia X10 is going to make its way to those with O2 branded phones, with the network revealing plans to let users install it themselves about a week from now. The announcement comes with a bit of a disclaimer, though, claiming your X10 may “run slower” as a result.
Here’s a chunk from O2′s apologetic announcement:
Sometimes this process can take longer than normal, as our Sony Ericsson X10 customers will know all too well. When we were testing the X10 Gingerbread update we found it caused problems with the camera, for instance –which made it virtually unusable. This meant that we have been delaying the update until we and Sony Ericsson could resolve the problem. I’m happy to say we’ve now been able to do this and the X10 update will be launching very shortly.
However, the move from FroYo to Gingerbread does carry a risk that we want you to be aware of. The X10 was really only meant to work with FroYo but Sony Ericsson have managed to squeeze Gingerbread in and this may mean your phone runs slower than you’re used to. The update is irreversible, so this may be something you want to think about before doing the update.
If you’d still like to proceed with the upgrade, you’ll be able to download it in a week from the support section for X10 on the Sony Ericsson website.
Always good to see an old-timer get brought up to date, even if O2 is the last of the UK networks to bring this upgrade to its customers.
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Simon
/ November 9, 2011Nice to see O2 being honest about the performance of the update. It does run slower than Froyo did on the X10. I’m not entirely sure what the cause is but running Gingerbread on a 2.6.29 kernel isn’t going to help.
Peninsula
/ November 9, 2011The update makes your Xperia slower?! There is something so, so, wrong about that.