HTC has a new Android 2.3 Gingerbread mobile device up its sleeves. The company made Google’s flagship Nexus One smartphone, but for its subsequent model, Google used a Samsung device as the Android standard.

Rumors of a new HTC Android smartphone, the HTC Scorpion, powered by a new ultra-fast Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, are doing the rounds, just days ahead of the 2010 Mobile World Congress.

Just last week, Samsung announced its first Android 2.1 phone, the SHW-M100S, less than a month after the launch of the Google HTC Nexus One Android 2.1 phone.