Android 5.0 Lollipop was final . I always say, is that although often all that launches sold as the last great leap that needs a product or platform, there are certain shots that feel as definitive at the time. On Android phones, for example, for me the final was the Galaxy S2 . In iOS, which marked a before and after was the iPhone 4 . And for me the old Android L has come to be that. But to enjoy, manufacturers had to accompany bringing Lollipop upgrade their handsets.
Han met with the promised deadlines?
The first you need to know is what they promised each brand:
- HTC promised update in 90 days from November 4
- . Motorola told in their chats support would update around December, and later announced that the full range of 2013 and 2014 would have Lollipop in January.
- OnePlus promised in July to update the OnePlus One Lollipop in less than three months since its launch.
- Sony Lollipop promised wide range Z (Z2 and Z3 earlier this year ) and seems to come close.
- Samsung announced the models, but did not give dates beyond the beginning of the year (January-February) in Galaxy S4, S5, Note 2 Note 3 Note 4 and Note Edge.
- LG update the G3 announced within a week in November and met. They also promised to G2, and we are waiting.
HTC
The Taiwanese company has been recognized in Twitter has not fulfilled its promise of 90 days:
This is more than HTC One M7 to M8, which already saw that yes they upgraded ago weeks. This is not an improvement either in the case of M8, since the dates of M7 last year with Kit Kat were similar. As I have learned, the update has arrived safely in performance or battery drain. Albeit with Sense 6. It seems that the HTC reserved One 7.0 M9, but still annoying
Motorola
Motorola was probably great disappointment within the update Lollipop . Why? It is mainly what we were accustomed to Kit Kat, where an updated model became even faster than the Nexus, which had a tremendous merit. Some terminals as the Moto X 2014 itself updated somewhat faster, but others like the Moto G 2014 have received recently in Spain, and now the Moto G 2013, Moto X Moto E 2013 and have not tasted Lollipop, although they is short. In spite of the upgrade has been excellent, is a setback in a key point for the reputation of the company.
OnePlus
Re / code
It was the first to promise Lollipop, and the first to fail within 90 days . Should not be far updating, but if you give a deadline must be consistent. Cyanogen is no longer a community of fans, now is a company and its policy of not giving ETAs no longer applies. Moreover, Oxygen OS, the ROM developed by the OnePlus itself also seems to take a while to arrive, as have counted on his blog. No doubt the support, but for now, not met.
Sony
The Japanese have been lighter with terminals that receive the update to Lollipop, but unclear with dates beyond “early this year”. If, as seems to happen, arrives on March Z2 and Z3, the periods have been similar to the Z1 in Kit Kat and slightly lower than the Z, which received Kit Kat in May . Of course, we hope that the update is received without battery problems last year, when Sony had to urge users to desinstalasen the latest version of Google Play Services by high consumption.
Samsung
With regard to terminals for the promised update Lollipop and that they have received in the short term, only found the Galaxy S5, which updated very fast when compared to the Galaxy S4 in your Upgrade Kit Kat, which was delayed until late February. Regarding Note 4 (Snapdragon) has begun to receive update today, which also substantially improves the term of Note 3 to receive Kit Kat, who came to mid March. Note 2 and Galaxy S4 Edge seems to also receive soon Lollipop, and what good is that Samsung is matching the interfaces of all high-end . Yes, like I said HTC, I would like all these terminals arrived with a similar Galaxy S6 TouchWiz, which is practically promised to come clean er and downloadable applications themselves voluntarily.
LG
Finally, the big surprise. LG was the first to bring an upgrade to its flagship Lollipop, LG G3 , and as we saw, much improved performance and battery fluid Kit Kat. The truth is that this is a big change, since for example, did not receive free G2 Kit Kat in Spain until April. As for the G2 with Lollipop, will probably arrive this month, which also improves much that achieved with the previous version.
Conclusions
Overall I would say that manufacturers finally failed to improve their lot in terms of upgrading to Lollipop , because except in very specific cases such as LG and Samsung have shortened their time in almost its entire range (with promised update), the periods of the year past have not been improved, only equaled, and gone down in the case of Motorola. For HTC OnePlus and directly has not played a very clear deadline. What could be due the lack of improvement in the update to Lollipop? Not to defend manufacturers, but generalizing hold this again Google, which launched Lollipop some problems , so brands have expected to be based on the source code of 5.0.1 or 5.0.2, released in early and late December, which adds one more month of delay.
Unless specific models, Lollipop still in the middle of other versions
Taking all this into consideration, it can be concluded that the thing, month, or month top down, is stagnant, and manufacturers find it hard to lose 4 months to upgrade to the latest version. The sad thing is that this only applies to high-end models, is that in the lower ranges we can find that even updated, or take close to one year.
The last aspect Upgrade to Lollipop I think it’s important to review your adoption rate over its predecessors. As we see in the graphSomospostpc, Lollipop is the version that is more slow to reach mobile market, counting after four months with a measly 1.6%, surpassed only (negative) numbers Honeycomb which, remember, was a closed and released exclusively for tablets system.
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