Today was an exciting day to be an HTC Desire owner on the O2 network. The operator released its “FroYo” Android 2.2 update for its branded HTC Desire, only to pull it pretty quickly – after upgraders reported problems with system crashes after installing the new OS.

Here’s what O2 said of the matter:

As some of you will have noticed the Android 2.2 Froyo update for HTC Desire on O2 went live this morning. While we’re pleased that so many of you have been able to download it successfully and are enjoying the benefits of 2.2, we have seen that a small number of people are having problems installing the update.

While we check out these issues we’re putting the 2.2 update on hold. We’ll update you as soon as possible and would like to thank our HTC Desire customers for their patience

Phones are either getting stuck on the boot screen, or crashing when loading web sites – particular the BBC news section. Do let us know if you’ve had any troubles. Link via Techradar.

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Here’s a collection of nice, high-resolution press shots of the Huawei IDEOS Android phone. Huawei seems to want everyone to refer to it in CAPITAL LETTERS, and we’re definitely OK with that. In other news, the IDEOS will come in other colours than pink, which is something of a relief.

There’s a spec sheet, too.

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TweetDeck has been telling people there’s a FAKE app calling itself “TweetDeck” on the Android Market right now, which is charging people money for the download. It’s not TweetDeck, obviously – because that’s only available in beta form as a direct download from the maker.

Here’s the shameful fake TweetDeck’s Android Market listing:

If you read the comments beneath the fake app’s Market listing, you’ll see that a very SELFLESS and GENEROUS man called “Chris” paid the $1 asking fee simply to leave a comment warning others not to buy the app. Chris, you are a hero. Your sacrifice will not be forgotten.

We’d imagine Google will be having this pulled rather promptly.

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Found this on Flickr while looking for dull screenshots of mobile phone operating systems. Imagine our surprise and joy. The HTC cake’s been baked in the wrong aspect ratio and that knife is way over-specified for mere cake slicing, but the filling looks tasty.

But the girls shouldn’t be wearing all-white when there’s cake around, they’ll get ever-so messy. We would like the one on the left to feed us a slice with her hand, please, HTC. Thanks.

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Apart from this one. This one is best, obviously, but these are the highlights of the very, very few Android blogs and news sources we bother reading on a daily basis as, frankly, most of the Android sites out there are B.O.R.I.N.G..

1. ANDROID GUYS – http://www.androidguys.com/

Fairly blandly designed and with perhaps a few too many Adsense units than the human brain can easily filter out of view, but wowee – does it ever have commitment to the cause. Android Guys does a superb job of “editorialising” its content, interspersing good features among the requisite news pieces. We like.

2. ANDROID AND ME – http://androidandme.com/

Stupid name, but comprehensive coverage – and they really put the work in and don’t simply rely on press releases and ripping stuff off the big gadget sites. We do admire a site with a good work ethic. We also like.

3. PHANDROID - http://phandroid.com/

Really needs to stop covering ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING as not everything is particularly interesting, but for a good summary of all the latest Android news, it’s about as good as it gets. Could do with relying a little less on reporting the hot news stories of the day, mind, although we understand that is sort of what you have to do if you want to be BIG. We also like.

4. ANDROID AUTHORITY – http://www.androidauthority.com/

Someone needs to get over there with an emergency install of WordPress, as the template is as dull as you can get – as is the writing style – but it does manage a comprehensive and very regular update schedule. You could get away with only ever reading AA. You’d be bored to tears, but you’d know it all.

5. ANDROIDZOOM - http://www.androidzoom.com/

More of a “list” than a “web site” but seeing as Google’s own Android Market site is so very, very awful, we have little choice but to turn to a third-party provider for our web-based Android Markey browsing. Sort it out, Google – don’t make us have to rely on outsiders to browse the Market on a PC.

If you have any more good Android blogs or web sites that aren’t boring, please drop us a comment. We’d like to check them all out, no matter how small. Just no B.O.R.I.N.G. ones that only feature Motorola press releases and Nokia FCC approval updates, please.

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