Samsung’s Galaxy S isn’t exactly hurting for Gingerbread options: you have your choice of custom kernels, and an official update leaked last week. What we’re still waiting for, though, is to see that official update go out OTA, finally reaching the hordes of phone users who aren’t quite up to the task of manually flashing their smartphones. We could see that update arrive by mid-April, according to UK carrier Three, which has tweeted that Gingerbread will likely be available “in the next couple of weeks”.

Elsewhere in Europe, we had heard out of both Germany and Romania that Gingerbread was supposed to come to the Galaxy S sometime during March. Obviously, that hasn’t happened yet, and Samsung Romania reported that the release was facing unspecified delays. Assuming that carriers other than Three will have access to the update at roughly the same time, we may see a Europe-wide release before the end of the month.

Three wasn’t willing to provide a hard date for the release, and the language it did use avoids making any promise that the Galaxy S will indeed get its update in the discussed timeframe. It’s entirely possible that Gingerbread will hit yet another roadblock, but for the time being, a mid-to-late April release is the most likely.

Source: ThreeUK Twitter

Via: Android Spin