Android shown to be out of touch when it comes to OS updates

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It’s the concern so many Android users have: when will my phone be upgraded to the newest version? As Android fans, we want to know that we will at least see the newest Android version soon after launch. While we don’t expect to see our HTC or Samsung device carry the latest flavor of Android the same day as a Nexus device, we don’t want to get left behind, either.

It seems that’s just what happens though, as OEMs and carriers choose not to support legacy models, instead “asking” us to upgrade. For some, that’s just not possible. For others, the change is unwelcome. For iOS, it doesn’t seem to matter. A new report shows that while the Android space remains fragmented, iOS devices — even those older ones — are widely supported with the same OS upgrade as newer devices, and at the same time.

This can be taken a number of ways. On one hand, Apple controls both the OS and hardware, so it’s easy for them to push out updates and support all devices. It’s a bit like Google with their Nexus brand. Though when Android 4.4 launched, the Galaxy Nexus was famously noted as being unsupported, with differing reasons as to why. Was it really some mysterious 18-month cycle, or the fact that Texas Instruments was no longer supporting the hardware in the device?

It gets even more confusing when we examine other OEMs and their offerings. The chart, pictured above, tracks OEMs and their various handsets through the life cycle. It shows how the manufacturer and/or carrier stop supporting the device, and the trend we see is that after a year or so it is simply left behind the curve. Android continues on, and if we want the latest and greatest Android has to offer, we’re to upgrade or languish… and upgrading doesn’t solve the problem all the time, either.

Perhaps more troubling is that, upon launch, many devices are already behind. The flagship Galaxy S3, for example, was never on the current Android page. The HTC One was, for a few months, but hasn’t been since. Only Nexus devices have a better showing than the rest, but the Galaxy Nexus calls that track record into question moving forward.

Conversely, we look to the iPhone, and see that all devices are supporting the current OS all the time. It is only recently that the iPhone 3GS — older than any Android device on the chart — began to slip off the map. Perhaps more troubling for us is the time it takes to get updates to Android devices, as the chart below demonstrates. While things like TouchWiz or Sense confuse the issue, that’s the responsibility of each manufacturer to readily support Android updates on their devices, and consumers shouldn’t pay the price for their choice. We like to blame carriers, but each carrier has the iPhone, and there seem to be no issues with updates there.

We hope Android 4.4 fixes fragmentation, but in reality, it will probably only change the appearance of it. On paper, we’ll all be on one version, but Android 4.4 has a lot of moving parts that OEMs can choose to utilize or not. The most obvious example is the Google Now launcher on the Nexus 5, which hasn’t made its way to other Nexus hardware, a choice made by Google. All Nexus devices are — or will be soon — on Android 4.4, but the experience changes from device to device. Is that actually solving the problem, or just the perception of it?

VIA: 9to5 Google

Xperia Z: update shown Android 4.2.2 in pictures

By Gabriel Manceau 13 June 2013

Update Android Sony Xperia Z 4.2.2 should no longer be delayed. Despite the lack of official date on the part of Sony, the first pictures of this update confirmed the progress of that work. Once is not custom, it is still on the XDA Forum, published these screenshots.

While OS came out of the S4 Galaxy directly with the latest version of Google, this is not the case these direct competitors. If we now know that the Xperia Z Android 4.2.2 in short time all chances on his site in the year 2013, the HTC-one could get it the post by a higher reactivity of the Taiwanese brand Crest, which has decided. While the higher-end model from Sony that come first in this year was, it will be to receive the last of the trio, this version of the system.

Sony Xperia Z Android 4.2.2

This is six months that the Xperia Z owners wait for Android 4.2.2! Sony had expected promised outlet but still a brief update of the phone under jelly bean 4.1.2. The XDA developers used this firmware version ensures, that it is very fluid and innovations come as push notifications in the bar you can change the quick settings or manage adjust its transparency. Support natively on the PlayStation 3 controller to the party.

Finally, the DAYDREAM functionality will be also present. The latter allows adjusting the screen lock from your Smartphone with your photos or news from your Google feeds in their spare time. No less than this upgrade makes pray and you should through no fault of the Japanese automaker expects, as the wait was long for users. Here you will find all images in the source at the end of the article.

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Shown Android 4.3 jelly bean finally before Android 5.0 key lime pie?

Would be Android 4.3 jelly bean the next version of Google? Android 5.0 key lime pie could be not presented in fact on the Google i/o, which will be held from 15 May. It is the founder of Android police, Artem Russakovskii, which it claims, and explains the different reasons that led him to this conclusion.

He would have found several nexus 7 nexus-4, and the Android 4.3 jelly bean turns. This is a build number for that noted that this version of the mobile operating system to the various products enabled on the server. Employees at Google could information that he cross with the implementation of IP addresses.

Featured Android 4.3 jelly bean on Google i/o?

Artem says his claims in this way:

"Google does not Android version number before the weeks prior to their presentation. Talking about weeks or a few months. But Google version assigning a number for the testing internally. They are called usually something like JellyBeanMR1 and then get a version number, as soon as their introduction in the vicinity. "said Artem Russakovskii to his statements to the next version of the system to explain.

Android 4.3 jelly bean leake

If there is no doubt that a new version of the operating system on the Google i/o will be presented, doubt exists more than ever to the version number. A presentation of Android 4.3 jelly bean would be surprising, and there is speculation a few weeks after the official presentation. Keep Google version 5.0 for the introduction of new products end of nexus? After doubts about the products, which next month is to be presented, it is the next version of the system itself is not yet fixed.

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