It's been quite a long wait since the 1st and 2nd generation Moto X (2013 & 2014) got an early taste of Android L 5.0.2 last year. But now the Android 5.1 Lollipop update is finally being released by AT&T and others in an over the air (OTA) rollout across the U.S. Here's a hands on preview of the upgraded Lollipop firmware on the Moto X (2014), which includes a few surprises you might not expect.
The Moto X and Moto X 2nd Generation are both getting Android 5.1 across several different world markets in the next week, signaling that U.S. users of the original Moto X (2013) might have to wait too long to finally get Android 5.1 Lollipop.
Motorola once again steps up at the front of the OEM pack by offering a big Lollipop update to the 2014 Moto X (second generation) and Moto E LTE -- rolling out an OTA Android 5.1 Lollipop update on U.S. Cellular now.
With Android Lollipop rollouts slowing down, there are still a few stragglers out there waiting for OTA updates from various U.S. carriers to Android 5.0 Lollipop. Among them, Asus's ZenFone lineup, including the ZenFone 4, ZenFone 5, and ZenFone 6 smartphones, which just announced a delay in its OTA rollout for Android L.
With Android Lollipop rollouts slowing down, there are still a few stragglers out there waiting for OTA updates from various U.S. carriers to Android 5.0, Android 5.0.2, Android 5.1, or Android 5.1.1. Here's the latest on the Sony Xperia Z3 and Xperia Z1s, which is finally going to get an Android 5.0.2 Lollipop update soon from T-Mobile.
It's mid-May 2015, half a year since Android 5.0 Lollipop first appeared on the Nexus 6: Verizon has finally begun updating one of the biggest flagship smartphones of 2013, the HTC One M7, to Lollipop.
Could the Samsung Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge get an Android 5.1 Lollipop OTA update rollout this June? One carrier outside of the U.S. claims it's happening.
It's been a little while since we've heard from Motorola about its progress bringing Android Lollipop updates to its lower-tiered devices, but now there's some big news. The Android 5.1 Lollipop OTA update release date for the second generation Moto E (2015) is... now.
Several variants and later iterations of the Sony Xperia Z have already received an Android Lollipop update, yet the original flagship Sony Xperia Z has gone un-updated so far. That's no longer going to be the case, as the official OTA rollout for the Sony Xperia Z has an official release date.
Samsung may have been slow getting the latest Google Android update, Android 5.0 Lollipop, to its premium handsets earlier this year, but now the company is rolling out the newest candy-coated mobile OS to many of its second-tier devices.
Android 5.0 Lollipop is still the hottest update rolling out to smartphones around the world, even though Android 5.1 Lollipop has hit devices higher on the upgrade queue -- and even an Android 5.1.1 Lollipop has been spotted. For users of the Samsung Galaxy S4 on U.S. carrier Verizon (model number SCH-i545), the wait for an OTA rollout of Android 5.0 Lollipop is over, as it's available now.
In what turned out not to be an April Fool's joke, the Android software development kit (SDK) updated with the latest Google mobile OS, Android 5.1.1 Lollipop, for the Nexus Player. Check out the factory image MD5 file ("fugu" 5.1.1 LMY47V for Nexus Player), publically available for download at the Android developers' page. Google later confirmed the release of the update for the Nexus Player.
Both Samsung and AT&T are known for being slower than others when it comes to customizing new Android releases and rolling out updates OTA for devices. So it may come as a surprise that AT&T's Samsung Galaxy S4 -- a device that's now almost two years old -- got the Android 5.0 Lollipop upgrade beginning early in April.
It appears that Motorola is beginning tests for the Moto X (2013), with some Android 5.1 Lollipop OTA update notifications already going out in some testing grounds.
Google's Android 5.0 Lollipop has come to Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note 4 devices in the U.S. through an OTA update announced late this week. It took a long time, but it's finally here.
The second-generation Moto X (2014) now officially has an Android 5.1 Lollipop update brewing for subsequent OTA updates, but savvy and intrepid Android users can download it right now.
Google's new Android 5.0 Lollipop update has begun rolling out OTA (over the air) in some markets to the Samsung Galaxy S5, Samsung Galaxy Note 4, Galaxy Note 4, Galaxy Note 3, Galaxy Note Edge, and a couple of variants of the Galaxy S4. Now, reports indicate Samsung is working on Lollipop for the Samsung Galaxy A3, Galaxy A5, and Galaxy A7, but there's some possible bad news for Galaxy Note 2 owners as well.
HTC has been pretty decently good at keeping its Android 5.0 Lollipop update release date promises, at least compared to other Android OEMs. But owners of the HTC One M7, most of whom should have received Android 5.0 Lollipop OTA updates by now, will find the latest Android update news a little depressing.
Many Samsung Galaxy Note 4 handsets have received Google's Android 5.0 Lollipop update by now, especially those outside the U.S. But Samsung users in Europe, early to get the first Android L update, are already getting a new Lollipop update OTA that fixes some confusing feature conflation.
