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[Epic 4G General] snowmanwithahat:
That article was posted because of the information we found here... It's not exactly a new development
[Epic 4G General] worldwidepmp:
Duh... I didn't say it was a new development, I was simply providing an another discussion on the matter. Read it and comment if you want to.
[Epic 4G General] Whosdaman:
Let's say I asked around with a few of my sources...

Nothing by no means is official. Hell we could see it next month, from what I am told it is nearly finished...but we all know how that went with Froyo. (DJ29, DK05, DK17...and on and on, god only knows how many before that.)

But I also did a little bit of research. Based on previous updates with the Epic, including the recent Froyo updates, 3 months seems to be a perfect time for a release, especially since it'll probably come about 3 weeks after EVO 3D releases.

Don't hold me to it, but for those who know me...you know I am always right ;)

EDIT: O btw, Nexus S 4G is releasing May 8th and EVO 3D's tentative date is June 5th like I have been saying since the day it came out :)
[Epic 4G General] squshy 7:
Hehe ok ok, I won't question you're prognosticating ;)

Though you did cover your ass this time. "Juneish." Gotta love that :p

Just playin
[Epic 4G General] zanderman112:
Would any one of your sources be able to tell you what version of touchwiz gb will have? XD

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[Epic 4G General] Esteway.619:
This is a good question cuz I really want touchwiz 4 ;)
[Epic 4G General] Overstew:
They'll probably NOT include it, because we'd need a reason to upgrade eventually, right?
[Epic 4G General] Comando156:
I also seen a pic of the epic 4 g running gingerbread on a Blackboard app promotion on my schools website today... sponcerd and approved by sprint that is too... not the best source because it could be a quick photoshop... but still hopefully a good sign. Fingers crossed.
[Epic 4G General] || Acer ||:
Mind posting the pic here?

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[Epic 4G General] Esteway.619:
Or maybe its an epic with cm7 like mine lol ;)
[Epic 4G General] gabe2gg:
mmm interesting...
[Epic 4G General] zanderman112:
For it to be recognized as gingerbread, it either had to of had tw 4.0, or was on stock gb.

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[Epic 4G General] ecooce:
My source still says mid to late May...

Edit::: I can say for sure the deadline to have a finished build is still May 15th.
[Epic 4G General] Quis89:
I doesnt take a "source" to assume the Evo 3D will release the first week of June. Just knowledge of Sprint patterns. Instinct, Pre and Evo....all June releases...
[Epic 4G General] The Root:
This would please me.
[Epic 4G General] Comando156:
Since i got asked, i went back and did a print screen of it. I tried to just save img or get the img url but couldn't the way the php was coded. Ill try again to get the full img link. But anyways, here it is. It could defently be a quick photoshop, but i just thought it funny to see it in a add on my schools website a few days after reading this thread.

Edit: Found the real img link now, not my printscreen.

https://mlcs-w2.medu.com/assets/ads/2011/march/ghost_ad_8.jpg

Leaving both up just incase one gets removed.

Edit 2: just realized the real url img might not show for people because its a protected server url... sorry I tried.
[Epic 4G General] zanderman112:
Ooooh, our two sources are different?! Dog fight! Lol jk

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[Epic 4G General] zanderman112:
Well the widget does have the style of the samsung widgets

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[Epic 4G General] Comando156:
yea, it does have samsung widget... but could easly be achived with gingerbread theme.. any ways im keeping hopefull. for once. lol
[Epic 4G General] zanderman112:
Ya, thanks for the pic.

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[Epic 4G General] InfDaMarvel:
lol Ive been using the blackboard widget for awhile. Gotta love doing homework from your phone.
[Epic 4G General] castro08:
So is this REALLY conformed? Dose anyone think we will get a leaked like the evo did?
[Epic 4G General] zanderman112:
The sources we have won't leak anything. Iirc, there are ways to find out who leaks a build, so it could cost someone their job.

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[Epic 4G General] castro08:
Yeah that's what I thought, but was woundering because the evo got.a leak
[Epic 4G General] The Root:
Any word on how testing is going?
[Epic 4G General] EddyBalls:
I want to see what happens when they get to Z. Even then, what number they'd be at. They should've had 26 versions of android. After the letter Z they'll probably do the years lol. Android 2022 v. VII
[Epic 4G General] 063_XOBX:
It never will, by that point in time people will be running desktop OS's from their phones.
[Epic 4G General] BeerChameleon:
Ya everything will be in out pocket and will have 100g lol

no need for computers wifi or anything lol
[Epic 4G General] othan1:
They already are. http://www.sdx-developers.com/sdx/windows-95-running-on-the-samsung-moment/
[Epic 4G General] 063_XOBX:
I mean modern desktop OS's, Windows 95 should be sent back to the depths of hell from where it came.
[Epic 4G General] gTen:
You calling ubuntu a none modern OS? lol
[Epic 4G General] poit:
Nah, by that time we will just have communications chips implanted in our heads. Imagine a OS upgrade on that!
[Epic 4G General] squshy 7:
I just hope we can be lucky enough to have samsung make them...imagine the OTA bricks lol
[Epic 4G General] zanderman112:
Lol mass murd....i mean update failure, not able to be recalled

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[Epic 4G General] Whosdaman:
Says it is too early to tell. Nothing is certain yet. Though I bet it won't have TouchWiz 4.0 just because of sale purposes.

Also to the person who said their source says mid to late May, my guy said the same like 3 weeks ago. He has since said late June due to EVO 3D launching.

(I can't say anything until some type of confirmation is leaked out first about something. I would have said it when I first found out, but Sprint has already yelled at me and they took away my privileges from the server. Thus the reason why you don't see any leaks from me anymore.)

[More secret good news for all Sprint customers, I am getting my permissions back...this time I have learned the tricks of the trade. SEE ABOVE ;) That means official ROMs will start being leaked out by me for all the Sprint devices again]
[Epic 4G General] dchawk81:
That would give "Genocide Kernel" an entirely new and literal meaning.
[Epic 4G General] zanderman112:
Niice man. And thanks for answering my question. I still hope we get tw 4.0

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[Epic 4G General] ecooce:
@ whosdaman,I just checked again,deadline to have a finished build is still May 15th,they will dig deeper tomorrow...
[Epic 4G General] zanderman112:
Well that makes sense, finish the build in may, release in june.

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[Epic 4G General] Whosdaman:
Now that I think about it, that would make sense. Ecooce, me and you are probably right. The ROM has a goal date to be finished for Sprint (which is probably way tooo early, it'll run into problems for sure) and then it has a goal date to be released.
[Epic 4G General] Overstew:
I want to be an official gingerbread tester, I think that'd be a fun job. hahaha

Just using the phone all day trying multiple different applications making sure it all works. The only work would be taking notes.

EDIT: Not that I'm lazy or anything, I just think it'd be a fun job.
[Epic 4G General] ecooce:
Agreed,heres to hoping for no problems...
[Epic 4G General] zanderman112:
+1 to that. Hope its smooth sailing here on out.

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[Epic 4G General] Whosdaman:
Agreed! Please Sprint don't delay GB until next year like you did with Froyo :(

Totally agreed ;)
[Epic 4G General] zanderman112:
*Slightly off topic*

This thread is fun.

Nothing else.

Have a nice day.

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[Epic 4G General] InfDaMarvel:
Id pray for a leak before a release.
[Epic 4G General] Esteway.619:
I'm praying now lol
[Epic 4G General] zanderman112:
I can hear it now:

Dear Lord,

Please grant this one, insignificant request, for someone to break the rules and leak this phone build. Amen.

Not a very good prayer lol

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[Epic 4G General] Esteway.619:
Lol its good enough haha
[Epic 4G General] epicslam:
i say forget 2.3 as google has said its for the nexus line only. I say wait for 2.4 in about 6 to 9 months. then i say wait for 3.x as it should be available soon.
[Epic 4G General] lviv73:
Yeah I played with Nexus S at best but and I cant quite put my finger on what it was but I wasnt impressed with 2.3-it kinda felt unfinished and froyo looks better to me.

When google first showed 2.3 screens they looked real good mainly due to that "80's retro green color" like led lights on old stereos.

But when they finaly released it,that cool and vibrant green was replaced with ugly frog-android green,and that really messed up the whole theme.

They really was unto something with that retro look.

Here I found some pics for comparison:

Old 2.3 colors http://androiddose.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/NexusS_GT-I9020_front.jpg http://an.droid-life.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/nexus-s-gallery1.jpg ,damn I guess its not just the colors but the whole ui looked better.

New 2.3 colors http://developer.android.com/sdk/images/2.3/home-plain.png http://www.todaygadgets.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/android_2.3_UI.jpg

Why google?Why?
[Epic 4G General] DCRocks:
You're right, if ya gonna go that route, got for it all

Dear Lord,

Please enable the Dev community to put out a fully functional and stable CM7 release for my phone, that is compatible with all my FAV themes and mods. Amen!
[Epic 4G General] zanderman112:
That's more like it! XD lol

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[Epic 4G General] zanderman112:
I agree, I like the "old" better.

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[Epic 4G General] 063_XOBX:
Personally I like the new color better, it matches the android robot which adds to the whole "improving the look of Android" idea behind gingerbread.
[Epic 4G General] zanderman112:
Ya, that makes sense. I'm just saying personally, the older green-blueish color seems more soothing. Lol, I guess that's when themes enter the party. Am I right?

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[Epic 4G General] lviv73:
Is there a gingerbread theme for froyo?If there is I can mod it to look like the old version and post it.
[Epic 4G General] 063_XOBX:
There's been one since December.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=869565
[Epic 4G General] muyoso:
Make sure to read through that thread carefully before flashing. It will NOT play nice with your phone if its not on EB13. He has not updated it yet to EC05.
[Epic 4G General] Wizard Knight:
deleted... dupe post
[Epic 4G General] nimaim:
You know ... even if there is a bit of truth to this, we probably won't see it for a WHILE. Did everyone forget how long it took them to release Froyo (and even that was buggy as hell)?
[Epic 4G General] squshy 7:
Well if you take noobnl's word for it, which I generally do, that was caused by a major bug in the phone's design that made it hard to leap from eclair to froyo due to the differences in the android versions...and its a bug that shouldn't interfere with froyo to gbread
[Epic 4G General] nimaim:
That's probably true since GB is simply just a lot of UI enhancements over Froyo, but when it comes to Sammy and software, they don't play well together.
[Epic 4G General] 063_XOBX:
It was more due to Froyo being tailored to the Snapdragon SOC, Gingerbread is specifically coded for the Hummingbird, so it should be significantly easier.
[Epic 4G General] zanderman112:
Tru dat lol

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[Epic 4G General] poit:
We haven't seen a new test release since the 12th posted. To me that points to ED12 being a pretty bug-free beta. If we don't see another beta soon, we may get a release fairly soon. Unless there's another beta soon I'm betting on first or second week of May.
[Epic 4G General] The Root:
Weren't there 2 or 3 builds right before the official one?
[Epic 4G General] zanderman112:
For froyo? Yes, because it was harder to get all the bugs ironed out of it. Just because it took more than one build for froyo to get right doesnt mean that gb will be as hard. I hope ED12 is already good enough to be released.

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[Epic 4G General] The Root:
Sprint id probably had something to do with it also. I forget, did it show what version of Tw i'll be ignoring?
[Epic 4G General] zanderman112:
No one here knows yet which tw version we are geting, or if they do, they aren't saying. I'm hoping for 4.0, but i am doubtful it will be.

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[Epic 4G General] gtuansdiamm:
I would be happy with legit 3.0

At least then we can use the puzzle lock
[Epic 4G General] zanderman112:
Yeah, either that or the one from the vibrant and i9000. Those two are the best touchwiz locks out of all the phones.

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[Epic 4G General] Whosdaman:
Yeah think about it. The Nexus S 4G is virtually the same device as the Epic except for the Keyboard, and guess what...the physical keyboard support is built into Android.
[Epic 4G General] apatcas:
We should be able to flash the TAR from Nexus S... Yay!
[Epic 4G General] poit:
Yeah, I chalk that up to them having a lot of bugs to work through. Once they had a clean build there were no more updates, and a little over two weeks later it was released. If that schedule works out, we could see ED12 as soon as May 3rd assuming there are no more builds.
[Epic 4G General] zanderman112:
I wish people wouldn't say crap like this. Someone will end up trying it, not knowing its wrong, and end up with an expensive paperweight.

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[Epic 4G General] 063_XOBX:
If you genuinely believe that, you deserve to wind up with the brick you'll get.
[Epic 4G General] Overstew:
the Nexus S has a lower recording capability than the Epic, from what I've heard. Maybe I read the wrong article or inaccurate specs.
[Epic 4G General] 063_XOBX:
That's simply due to AOSP not supporting HD video (yet).

Texted while driving
[Epic 4G General] deano0714:
So its capable? When google incorperates it?
[Epic 4G General] Esteway.619:
Yup
[Epic 4G General] apatcas:
dude... i wasnt serious...
[Epic 4G General] 063_XOBX:
Like I said, if you genuinely believe it.

Texted while driving
[Epic 4G General] zanderman112:
Some people might think you were being serious, and actually try it. I know that most people just follow instructions when they root, and dont really take the time to understand the process. In their mind, if someone says its ok, then it must be ok to do.

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[Epic 4G General] Overstew:
That's what I do, but slightly different. I follow the dev's word. :)
[Epic 4G General] zanderman112:
Gewd job lol.

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[Epic 4G General] Whosdaman:
So again...I'm right for the tenth time now I think? I've lost count. May 8th like I said earlier in the thread. I know everything about Sprint about 2 weeks before it happens.

The Blackberry Playbook for Sprint is launching May 8th as well. Just in case anyone cares.
[Epic 4G General] BeerChameleon:
So do u think or know that this update will be out when the nexus s 4g comes out?

Sorry if u repeated this answer somewhere.. :o
[Epic 4G General] squshy 7:
Haha whosdaman covered his ass this time on forecasting the date of the update, he said "juneish" haha! So the only way he'll be wrong is early may or late july :p

Just teasin, whosdaman
[Epic 4G General] Quis89:
The Playbook release date has been know for about a week and a half.
[Epic 4G General] zanderman112:
I'm sorry, but this thread is hard to find stuff in. Are you referring to being right about the Gingerbread update for the Epic, or the release date to the Nexus S 4G? Sorry Whosdaman, your post wasn't clear to me.

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[Epic 4G General] forddna:
This is very exciting news!!

BTW, I'm new to posting here...my name's Amanda, and I have owned an Epic since release date. I browse the dev subforum..Anyway, hi!
[Epic 4G General] zanderman112:
Welcome to the general section!

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[Epic 4G General] Whosdaman:
The Nexus S 4G section.

And to whoever said something about the Playbook, you do know I'm the original person who reported on the delay a week and a half ago ;)
[Epic 4G General] The Root:
Any GB testing news?
[Epic 4G General] 063_XOBX:
Last I heard the deadline for a test build is May 15th, and with software, it's either just on time or late, NEVER early.
[Epic 4G General] zanderman112:
Sometimes i hate it when you are right. ;p

Sent from my QWERTY-ified, Gingerbreadless Nexus S 4g.
[Epic 4G General] Whosdaman:
None so far...but good news may be coming later today or tomorrow. (And this is really really good news.)
[Epic 4G General] zanderman112:
Good to know. Mae sure to inform us! Lol

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[Epic 4G General] bondosho:
I'm hoping it's Galaxy S2 news. I'm due for an upgrade in August.
[Epic 4G General] djbacon06:
yes please
[Epic 4G General] The Root:
When does his day normally end? Haha
[Epic 4G General] || Acer ||:
Really good news eh?

Gingerbread in the next month with TouchWiz 4.0 xD?

That would be a dream.
[Epic 4G General] zanderman112:
Ya it would.

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[Epic 4G General] J3ff:
it's tomorrow
[Epic 4G General] ZiggSVO:
Glad to have ya on these forums as well. Let me know if you need to hold my hand some more ;)
[Epic 4G General] qbking77:
This guy......
[Epic 4G General] k0nane:
Hmm...
[Epic 4G General] qbking77:
What is that supposed to mean? ;)
[Epic 4G General] xxmastermindxx:
Get your glass of milk/epic ready? :)
[Epic 4G General] k0nane:
Maybe you'll find out soon... Maybe you won't.
[Epic 4G General] qbking77:
Ugh you all are driving me insane haha
[Epic 4G General] zanderman112:
Edit: I just refreshed the thread and saw the posts anove mine. Lol

Are you dropping a hint about something?

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[Epic 4G General] Whosdaman:
Anyone notice the next pricing period for Sprint after the current one end June 4th?

And guess what I predicted the next day to be? :)
[Epic 4G General] Jez2cool:
ACS

LOOK WHAT I GOT :D

COME SEE MORE AT ACS
[Epic 4G General] k0nane:
Maybe. 10char
[Epic 4G General] zanderman112:
Looks like a theme to me. I'm not signing up for another forum just to see what that really is though.

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[Epic 4G General] Jez2cool:
That your choice but when have you known ACS to pull a Joke
[Epic 4G General] qbking77:
Yeah I'd highly recommend going and creating an account over at the acs website. You will get real time updates with roms and themes from ACS team members. Check it out, it's free, obviously. http://www.acsyndicate.net
[Epic 4G General] djbacon06:
new members can't even access that page (at least I cannot).
[Epic 4G General] Jez2cool:
we are working on getting everyone access
[Epic 4G General] Jez2cool:
recheck the link
[Epic 4G General] k0nane:
:D

I've been watching far too much Simpsons lately, so this is extra-funny.

Yes, the link works now.
[Epic 4G General] mikey80021:
Says I can't access.

*edit* I do have to say, though, I have enjoyed running your roms.
[Epic 4G General] djbacon06:
Still no access :(

Oh how I love me some Simpsons:D
[Epic 4G General] k0nane:
Things are moving around a bit - we'll have it fixed shortly.
[Epic 4G General] murso74:
just for S%$^s and giggles i'm gonna say its coming out June 6th.
[Epic 4G General] 063_XOBX:
A full 2 days after nobody cares, since the Evo 3D will be out and almost every dev will have moved to that...
[Epic 4G General] murso74:
yeah that sounds about right. and CM7 will probably hit RC by then too
[Epic 4G General] || Acer ||:
That seems pretty accurate! I mean the Galaxy S got Froyo Jaunary I think, and we got our's two months later (one if you include EB13.)

I guess this proves noobln's theory that there was some big bug when trying to convert to 2.2. He said that after 2.2 updates should come much faster.

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[Epic 4G General] qbking77:
I'm going to go ahead and say May 5th since it's my birthday ;)
[Epic 4G General] iSaint:
YAYYYYY .... looks like it's going to be a good christmas...

o wait most of us will be on another phone... or have a fully working CM7 .
[Epic 4G General] || Acer ||:
Hah yeah. But I'm curious to see the new TWLauncher4 and other enhancements previewed on the GSII

Sent from my Samsung Epic
[Epic 4G General] The Root:
And then some of you could also not crap up a perfectly good thread, but then again where would that negative attitude come from that we've all grown to love. So much for changing the tone of the Epic forum. Some people can't wait to piss in others' Cheerios.
[Epic 4G General] gokuman56:
Gingerbread will be released at the end of this month if I'm right. Following EB in Feburary, EC in March, and ED would be April, if i'm not mistake, I wonder if this is a beta though. Nevertheless, it should be leaked for the epic by the end of this month
[Epic 4G General] 063_XOBX:
I suppose you want us to all start singing praises at Samsung for actually doing what they're supposed to?
[Epic 4G General] epic4GEE:
This means a slight, but possible upgrade to GB before the evo? Ironically ironic if this does happen.

P.S. stock roms suck and are only good for the devs. I'll be waiting for dem guys, they rock.
[Epic 4G General] zanderman112:
Yes, I'm so hoping we get the new touchwiz. Good find OP.

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[Epic 4G General] socos25:
I for one will be having my Epic until it no longer does what I want it to do. I don't see that happening anytime soon.

Besides I don't use my phone to impress chicks like many in these forums seem to do, nor do I worry about benchmarks. I really don't see the benefit to Gingerbread other than saying your on the latest OS. Its not like it enables something on this phone that Froyo doesn't do.
[Epic 4G General] PythonFanTN:
Just because the versions show up doesn't in any way indicate a 'final build'. You can backtrack through every possible date using the same URL structure and changing the last 4 characters all the way back to DK28 and find several builds in between DK28 & EB13 as well as some between EB13 and EC05.
[Epic 4G General] musclehead84:
If we get it we get if not..... oh well. I love my froyo with overclocked kernel

Sent From My Evo Killer!
[Epic 4G General] NEXUS 4G:
1st letter if the year- g1 came out in 2007 so this is androids 5th year... A b c d e...

2nd if the month-april is the 4th month... A b c d

The 2 digit number is the day of that month the build was made....

In case anyone was wondering
[Epic 4G General] Overstew:
That's my birthday.

:)
[Epic 4G General] Kitteh298:
whats so damn amazing about gingerbread?
[Epic 4G General] NEXUS 4G:
It's typically 2 weeks of testing with no problems to get released... If this build doesn't show any issues... Than we get it in 2 weeks... At the end of the month...

"If ur gonna piss on us at least have the decency to call it rain"
[Epic 4G General] heathmcabee:
i think this is Noobnl announcing this, definitely his style of shortness.
[Epic 4G General] djbacon06:
right on, thank you. I'll go twiddle my thumbs for a bit or something
[Epic 4G General] evohog:
Just registered and awaiting the 2nd email, can't wait! I knew I left my laggy ass evo for a reason. Acs roms kick ass by the way thanks for all you've done and continue to do. Much respect.
[Epic 4G General] zanderman112:
Its nothing against ACS at all, I'm not rooted, so I don't theme my phone or anything. Creating an account there would be pointless for me. I was just commetning on the one picture I did see. It does look nice, theme or not.

Sent from my QWERTY-ified, Gingerbread-less Nexus S 4g.