Android 5.0 Lollipop is finally hitting non-flagship devices, at least for Taiwanese Google OEM HTC. The One E8, Desire EYE, and Butterfly S have all begun receiving Android L updates, albeit in Asian markets for now.

While most major brand-label Android smartphones, like the Samsung's Galaxy S5 and Galaxy S4, are still in the process of updating to Android 5.0 Lollipop in the U.S., HTC has already updated most of its flagship smartphones from the past two years and is already working its way down the list to the mid-tier, according to PhoneArena.

The smartphone-centric news blog caught wind of Android L upgrades coming to some of the less-famous lines of HTC smartphones from trusty HTC developer and leaker @LlabTooFeR, which stated that the Desire EYE and Butterfly S were both receiving updates to Android 5.0 Lollipop in HTC's native Taiwan.

Meanwhile the HTC One E8 has similarly begun receiving upgrades to Android Lollipop in Hong Kong. For all three devices, the particular flavor of Lollipop on offer appears to be the slightly bug-fixed Android 5.0.2, but HTC's updated UI layer, Sense 7, doesn't appear to be on offer along with the Android update.

As far as the mid-tier HTC lineup in the U.S., there are still no solid release dates for the Android 5.0 Lollipop update for devices such as the One E8, which is available on Sprint, or the HTC Desire EYE on AT&T.

But word of the devices getting Android L in advance in Asia can only be hopeful news to HTC owners here in the U.S. Another piece of good news: a previous LlabTooFeR leak has the ingloriously named HTC Desire 816 slated to receive Android Lollipop upgrades beginning sometime in mid-April. 

We'll keep you up to date on the HTC lineup of smartphones as updates roll out, but for now, owners of the non-premium line of HTC phones should bask in the happy fact that they may actually get Android 5.0 Lollipop updated on their low-cost devices before other brands' premium smartphones do.