Eldar Murtazin recently presented details about the Android Gingerbread on the Russian podcast Digestive. According to it, Gingerbread will be accessible on advanced devices, which have 1 GHz processors, 512 MBs of RAM, and a large touch screen. Most of the Android devices don’t have any of these features, and hence, are not suitable for the Gingerbread. Only Android phones that were launched earlier this year are able to meet these criteria. A resolution of up to 1280×760 will be supported, and the new user interface will be taking note from the Android 2.1’s photo gallery. But whether or not this means that the UI will be 3-D like is still a guess. But with the 1 GHz processor, a 3-D UI will be very easy to take on.

The low-end Android devices will have to remain happy with 2.1 or 2.2, and as for the Motorola Droid, it will have to remain satisfied with the Froyo only. When it comes to processing power, 1 GHz is the new 528 MHz, and devices such as Unlocked HTC Hero or CLIQ will be unable to tackle Gingerbread. The great divide between the low-end devices and high-end devices by Android will get even more prominent with this Gingerbread issue. Users of myTouch 3G or myTouch 3G Slide will not be happy at all. Both these sets are new inclusions in the market, but they do not meet the hardware conditions that are required for Gingerbread. On the other hand, for people who own a Google’s Unlocked  Nexus One or some other high-end device, they will be excited beyond belief, since their phones’ hardware standards meet that of the Gingerbread’s requirements. But this does not necessarily mean that your device will be best suited for the Gingerbread.

According to Murtazin, the Gingerbread will most likely be introduced in the month of October.

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