Take this with a grain of salt, but several sources are saying that the HTC Desire, which runs on the company’s custom Sense UI over Android 2.1, will be upgraded to 2.2 by June 23rd. If this is true, there is no reason to believe that HTC’s other recent offerings, such as the Sprint EVO 4G and Verizon Droid Incredible, won’t receive the same upgrade treatment. Now, phones offered by carriers will be subject to the carriers’ upgrade discretion, so one company might release it while others may not. But it does bode well for the future of the Android upgrade path, which seems to be diminishing as vendors and carriers get used to the furious pace at which Google releases their Android versions.

Nexus One owners are still waiting for their official Froyo update: those who have received Android 2.2 over the air were tech journalists who received their phones free from Google. The version they received is purported to be a Release Candidate test version of the OS, used to hammer out any remaining bugs. I am using it, however, on my N1 with no problems to speak of, though because Google hasn’t officially released the update, the Android Marketplace is not functioning as it should.

(via Moby1)