{"id":12898,"date":"2011-07-01T13:21:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-01T17:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pocketpccentral.net\/newscenter\/2011\/07\/01\/samsung-galaxy-tab-getting-android-2-3-gingerbread-update-july-5th\/"},"modified":"2011-07-01T13:21:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-01T17:21:00","slug":"samsung-galaxy-tab-getting-android-23-%e2%80%98gingerbread%e2%80%99-update-july-5th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=12898","title":{"rendered":"Samsung Galaxy Tab Getting Android 2.3 \u2018Gingerbread\u2019 Update July 5th?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 12px 15px 5px 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"Happy Galaxy Tab\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Happy Galaxy Tab\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pocketpccentral.net\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/happy_galaxy.jpg\" width=\"230\" height=\"308\" \/>If you\u2019re the owner of a Sprint-branded 7-inch Galaxy Tab, it appears you could be in for an Android update next week.&#160; SprintFeed is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sprintfeed.com\/2011\/06\/original-galaxy-tab-finally-getting-gingerbread\/\">reporting<\/a> that an update to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Android_2.3#Version_history\">Android 2.3<\/a>, a.k.a. Gingerbread, will be released for the tablet starting Tuesday, July 5, 2011.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>Okay, so it\u2019s not exactly Honeycomb, but it is a welcomed update to a later version of the Android OS. And hopefully (if true) updates for the other U.S. carriers\u2019 Galaxy Tab models won\u2019t be far behind.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>If you don\u2019t get an on-screen notice regarding the update by Wednesday, you can check for it manually by tapping <em>Menu &gt; Settings &gt; About My Galaxy Tab &gt; System Updates &gt; Update Android<\/em>.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>This information has not been verified by Sprint or Samsung, so take it for what it\u2019s worth.<\/p>\n<h6 align=\"right\">Image courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\">AndroidPolice.com<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re the owner of a Sprint-branded 7-inch Galaxy Tab, it appears you could be in for an Android update next week.&#160; SprintFeed is reporting that an update to Android 2.3, a.k.a. Gingerbread, will be released for the tablet starting Tuesday, July 5, 2011.&#160; Okay, so it\u2019s not exactly Honeycomb, but it is a welcomed [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=12898\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}