Several HTC phones are being reported at MWC as running Android 2.4. There’s been talk about the next version of the OS, but we haven’t heard anything officially official. The word is that 2.4 will still be called Gingerbread, and there’s been a lot of speculation in the last couple of weeks that it will support a lot of Honeycomb features, almost like the tablet-oriented OS brought home to the smartphone. It has not been confirmed whether HTC is stealing Google’s thunder, or whether the press releases just featured some rather unfortunate typos. Some of these phones are due out pretty quickly, though, so if we’re going to see 2.4 on them, Google will likely be making an announcement very soon!
[via AC and HTC]