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While most of the Android-carrying world still waits on the edge of their seat for Android 2.2 (Froyo) to grace their handsets, a handful of engineers over in Mountain View are already hard at work on their next big thing: Android 3.0 (Gingerbread).

Gingerbread, it seems, is getting far enough along in its development cycle that at least one or two engineers have it up and running on their kits.

GreeneComputing, developers of the LINPACK benchmarking software for Android, were running some analytics on their app usage logs and uncovered a few little gems: in between all the Android 2.2 users (which made up 43.1%) and Android 2.1 users (which made up 39.8%), a few users appeared to be running something special: Android 3.0. Oh, and Android 3.0.1, and 3.2, for that matter.

Before you get too excited: 3.0.1 and 3.2 are likely near identical copies of 3.0 at this point, just separated out onto individual branches for the sake of developing them in parallel. Still, that means Google’s got at least one minor and one small-but-still-pretty-notable update on the drawing board already — and we can’t wait for either, much less the big 3.0 itself.

[Via DroidDog]

Credit - MobileCrunch

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[Graffen]

I'm hoping that Gingerbread isn't too far off. Gingerbread is supposed to allow for larger screened devices (i.e. iPad size) so it will be interesting to see if any of the major players start bringing out decent tablets.

I know there are already android tablets out there, but they are just too small for my liking (Dell Streak for example) or like most of the Chinese variants, using 1.5/1.6 android.

[The Guru]

Well I got my taste for Android tablets with the Streak and I can't wait!

[Graffen]

Give me an android tablet the same size as the iPad and I'll probably be one of the first people in the queue for one

Fingers crossed I don't have to wait too long for something to come along!