"According to the newly leaked information about Gingerbread, Google plans to keep Android 2.2 around for the foreseeable future and will maintain it in parallel with 3.0. The purpose of maintaining both is to ensure that 2.2 is still available for lower-end devices that don't match the high minimum specifications for 3.0."
The minimum hardware requirements (like 1GHz CPU) for 3.0 may be too high for the bottom end Shanzai tablets coming to North America this year. Froyo 2.2 will be around for a long time, though. A generic Android tablet running Kindle, Nook, Kobo, et al, software will likely be the up-and-coming competitor to these major e-Reader. All the major players (Apple included) know that the big money is made selling books, not the reader. Prices should continue to drop.
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