yes its definately faster. It may be only me but I feel the battery drain to be lesser in Gingerbread. and if you install it in 3gb emmc partition (partitioning tutorial of nitdroid wiki) then it won't mount MyDocs in gingerbread, although there is a solution at nitdroid forum, I still couldn't manage to mount it. I got something like sdcard needs to be formatted message. and many app(about 3 apps such as ucweb, homescreen 3D, advanced task killer among 10 I have installed) doesn't load in full screen