The biggest Android device retailer may be updating a large majority of its flagships from this year and last in earliest months of 2016, if a leak of the company's purported Android Marshmallow update roadmap proves to be authentic.
Android M, now known as Android 6.0 Marshmallow, is now in the heat of update season, as Google's latest mobile OS begins OTA rollouts to non-Nexus devices across the world. Now it appears a leak from a meeting at Lenovo has spilled the company's Android Marshmallow update roadmap for many of its devices.
Android M, now known as Android Marshmallow 6.0, is finally beginning to roll out to a few non-Nexus Android smartphones, like the third generation Moto X Pure Edition. And while Motorola first announced its device list for the Android M upgrade in October, as it now begins the rollout to its flagship Moto X 2015, the company has also added a few new smartphones to its rollout plan.
Motorola has announced that it has finished testing and preparations for the Android 6.0 Marshmallow update for its 2015 Moto X Pure Edition (a.k.a. Style) smartphones in the U.S. Third generation Moto X users on Sprint, Verizon, AT&T, or U.S. Cellular should begin receiving OTA update notifications immediately, according to Motorola's official announcement.
While the rest of Android land is waiting to find out when their devices' Android 6.0 Marshmallow update release date will come, the Google Nexus family of smartphones and tablets are already getting an OTA rollout to Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow.
If there was ever a major, quantifiable difference between Google's Android operating system and Apple's iOS, it's that Apple users upgrade their Apple devices to the latest version of iOS much more quickly -- and in droves.
With a leaked picture showing a soak test in the U.S., it looks like in 2015 Motorola's Moto X Pure Edition is right on track to get an official OTA rollout of Google's latest, Android Marshmallow, before any other manufacturers' update release dates hit.
The Android 6.0 Marshmallow update is beginning to roll out to a few non-Nexus phones by now, so the first question on everyone's mind is when their device will get the upgrade. The 2015 phablet flagship from Samsung, the Samsung Galaxy Note 5, appears to be getting Android M in a very short while, if rumor reports based on a leak are correct.
While most Android phones are still waiting on official OTA rollouts of the latest operating system from Google, Android M or Android 6.0 Marshmallow, CyanogenMod has announced that CyanogenMod 13 (CM13 nightly) is already running Marshmallow and available for download to a handful of Android devices.
While most Google Nexus devices have gotten the Android 6.0 Marshmallow, or Android M, update, most of the Android world is still waiting for the update to rollout to their phones. But according to a new report, Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow is already starting to roll out to some Android One phones.
For those who bought a Nexus tablet or smartphone from the Google Play Store, the Android M (or Android 6.0 Marshmallow) update has already rolled out to their devices. However, that hasn't been the case for T-Mobile branded Nexus 6 users, who were promised an update in early October, and only now should be finally getting an OTA rollout of Android M soon.
Android M, or Android 6.0 Marshmallow, has been pushed to Nexus devices and introduced by HTC in its latest One A9 device. And soon the system software update will begin the rollout process for many more Android flagship devices, including the LG G3 in mid-December, according to a new report.
OnePlus has revealed the U.S. Android M OTA update release date window for its cult-hit devices, the OnePlus One and OnePlus Two. There's also an official update on the progress of Android Marshmallow on the new OnePlus X.
It looks like Motorola is in the first steps of the Android 6.0 Marshmallow OTA rollout process, as official word is coming from the company announcing the release of the Android M update to the Moto X Style (2015) and the Moto X (2014) in India and Brazil.
Lenovo might have let slip the specific month that owners of its popular K3 Note, A7000, and A7000 Plus handsets can expect to get the upgrade to Android 6.0 Marshmallow. But it's not good news.
Android M, or Android 6.0 Marshmallow, is in the process of rolling out to Android handsets in the U.S., but Google's mobile OS is trailing behind Apple's latest iOS 9.1 update in a big way.
The Android 6.0 Marshmallow update has already rolled out to Nexus devices, but while the Android M update is still pending for many other non-Nexus Android flagship smartphones, the wait is over for HTC One M8 Google Play Edition owners.
LG G4 owners in the U.S. should take notice, because across the Pacific in South Korea, the Android 6.0 Marshmallow update began an OTA rollout to several variants of the LG G4 on Wednesday. Perhaps the U.S. is next in line for the Android M update, or perhaps not. In any case, it's a sign that LG is working with Google to win the update race.
The hopeful news for owners of the excellent mid-range third generation Moto G comes in the form of a leak on Google Plus. a screenshot from a 2015 Moto G showing an updated Android 6.0 Marshmallow build number running on the device.
