Will Your Phone Get Lollipop?

[Bambino]

These current phones are scheduled to get Android 5.0:

http://bgr.com/2014/10/16/motorola-htc-android-5-0-update/

[viridis]

Should get a fair few older devices too.

[Anonymous]

It will be nice to see less fragmentation on the Android platforms.

The next stage I'm wondering is how and when O2 release this to their customer base.

Maybe @Chris_K can advise if he knows more yet.

[Chris_K]

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@Anonymous wrote:
It will be nice to see less fragmentation on the Android platforms.

The next stage I'm wondering is how and when O2 release this to their customer base.

Maybe @Chris_K can advise if he knows more yet.

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Too soon for any of that I'm afraid. The Nexus devices tend to be the first in the world with the newest Android OS for a period of a month or two. O2 won't get software to begin testing right away - with HTC for instance, our builds tend to go live around the same time as the open market one or sometimes a few days sooner. So we may get the software just a couple of weeks before the expected release date.

As and when I get updates on us receiving/testing/approving these Lollipop i'll keep everyone updated.

[viridis]

At best I think the Nexus in Nov, followed by Google play editions in Dec and mainstream skinned handsets in late January early Feb, just in time for MWC

[jonsie]

The existing Nexus devices are said to be getting Lollipop 'within weeks' so expect longer still for android devices. Other mobiles noted here :

http://www.idigitaltimes.com/android-50-lollipop-release-date-schedule-what-devices-will-get-new-upd...

[anticpated]

According to what I have read only the higher-end smartphones will get being updated. Android release a SDK (Software Development Kit) to OEM developers who then place their UI around it. 90 days is the ballpark figure for turnaround and announcement of a fully-working update, so expect it to be more like 4 or 5 months if things get delayed.

The last LG update took around 6 months and had to be fixed because of an Audio DSP bug, around a month later.

[viridis]

Every Xperia z. Wahooo