Your ancient Android Gingerbread phone is about to become even more useless - Android Police

If you're still holding onto a phone running Gingerbread, it's about to get a whole lot harder to use with Google services.

Starting September 27, any device running Android 2.3.7 Gingerbread or earlier will no longer be able to sign into a Google account (via 9to5Google).

In an email sent to affected users, Google suggests updating your device to Android 3.0 or higher if possible (a strange request, considering Honeycomb was a tablet-exclusive release), but realistically, the writing is on the wall.

If you're still using a Gingerbread phone as your daily driver — or even as a secondary device — it might be time to give up the ghost.