If you don't already know, it takes a lot of time to port new Android updates to devices running the OS beneath a manufacturer's special skin.  This process often begins in confusion and ends in frustration when consumers use of these handsets because they have to stand by and wait for the update to come while watching other owners get their own upgrades.  You know those good folks over at Pocket-lint ? Well they got a word from HTC about what a manufacturer goes through and also gave us information about when we can expect Android updates to come to HTC devices.  Eric Lin, HTC's global PR and online community manager spoke exclusively to Pocket-lint at the Qualcomm Uplinq convention where he might have let it slip that Gingerbread may not arrive until 2011. "It takes time to port all of our applications over to Froyo and then make sure that it is running well on each of our devices," said Lin. "That’s not like a one week kind of project. We need to make sure that our applications are taking advantage of the Froyo features. To make sure that they’re all running properly on the OS now that it’s a new version. And then to make sure that it's running on our hardware as well as we expect." According to Lin, the updates just might be going better then planned - and quicker. But the big questions is will we being seeing Gingerbread before the end of 2010? I wouldn't hold your breath if I was you. "I don’t think so. I don’t know what Gingerbread involves, but I would believe that we would be done with our Froyo updates before Christmas. And since Google hasn’t made any announcements as to when Gingerbread is going to come out, I’m not going to make that guess, it could be Q1 of next year." Well HTC is trying to make everything right, maybe not right now but it's better to be patient then rush things don't you think? Via: Cell Phone Trek