Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 to get Gingerbread in Q2, Q3 this year - this isn't one of our April Fools Day jokes. It's the absolute deal, accepted by the Sony Ericsson Product Blog and everything.

It seems that the guys over at Sony Ericsson haven't abandoned about the asperse of their Android lineup, while announcement their additional beachcomber XPERIA smartphones. Actually Rikard Skogberg, the man who apparent this dank advice to the world, says that acquaintance with the XPERIA Arc and XPERIA Neo phones has helped Sony Ericsson's engineers to alpha alive on the Gingerbread amend for the X10.

Skogberg wrote that the acumen abaft this accessible amend is that Sony Ericsson listens to its audience requests. Well, accept - we assumption it's technically true. Eclair and multi-touch did ability the X10, no amount how continued humans had to delay for them.

The amend will alpha rolling-out in the summer time. It will be absolute for non-carrier-branded accessories so far. Locked carrier-dependent accessories will just accept to delay for new developments. Reportedly, some users may not get the Gingerbread amend because of their carrier situation.

On the changes that Gingerbread would bring, Mr. Skogberg had this to say: "In short, we plan to accompany agnate software and functionality to Xperia X10 as we accept in our new 2011 Xperia smartphones. Our appetite is to accommodate the majority of functionality of the Gingerbread platform, as able-bodied as the Sony Ericsson specific User Acquaintance and features."

Also some accepted software functions will disappear. The camera app will get the accepted Gingerbread UI, Mediascape will be replaced by the newest Sony Ericsson Android media widgets, included in the Arc, Neo and Play. The Sony Ericsson Backup and Restore app will be absent back Gingerbread doesn't abutment it.

The new amend will not be an over-the-air affair. You'll accept to affix your X10 smartphone to a PC with the Sony Ericsson software to update.