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Android Lollipop is a major facelift since Android 4.0 ice-cream sandwich. It’s been years since Android staying on 4.x version with Android 4.0-4.0.4 Ice Cream Sandwich(2011), Android 4.1-4.3.1 Jelly bean (2012) and finally 4.4-4.4.4 Kit Kat(2013). October 2011 Ice Cream Sandwich was released; the milestone Google made to the success of the most popular mobile platform Android. Until Ice cream sandwich Android was just another mobile platform in the mobile market dominated by Nokia’s Closed Source Operating System, Symbian .  Even if Google tried to more features to Android platform with Gingerbread at 2010, the system was couldn’t utilize the precious hardware and had a lagging interface. But unlike Symbian OS, Android was growing very rapidly with tons of new feature with each updates.  Android Ice cream Sandwich could bring more visual appeal and better performance than its predecessor but the platform was not as smooth to work on. Thus Google star...

Everyone is so excited to get Android 5.0 in their devices but will it happen? Android Lollipop comes with a vast IU change (material design), performance bump up and low power consumption which an Android user can’t miss. Still only some of the manufactures have official announced about the Android L update, many are mute. [UPDATE] Android Lollipop is now in AOSP (Android Open Source Project). Developers can download the code and start working on it. As of now, the devices that will get update without much further delay are: Nexus After the elegant announced of Nexus 6 and Nexus 9 , Google also confirmed that all nexus device back from nexus 4 will be getting Android 5.0 update very soon. Expected date for OTA release is on 3 rd of November 2014. Nexus 4,5,7(Wi-Fi & LTE) and Nexus 10 are confirmed with the Android 5.0 update. [UPDATE]  Google released Android Lollipop 5.0 for  Nexus 5,  Nexus 7 (201...

As Motorola smart phones trends since last few years, they push update for their smart phones much faster than any other manufactures. As per the recent Motorola blog post , Motorola has confirmed that Android L (Android 5.0) will be arriving to Moto X (1 st and 2 nd gen), Moto G (1 st and 2 nd gen) and   Moto G with 4G LTE . As Motorola’s device have almost stock android, it may not take much long for them to optimize Android L to their devices.  And also the same blog reveals that all the Motorola smart phones launched in 2013 and later will get the new update.    Moto E along with Droid Ultra, Droid Maxx and Droid Mini will receive the Android L update. But the phone maker didn't reveal when the updates will be given. The new Android L update will bring: Material design UI Improved performance Updated lock screen and notification Battery saver Document-centric multitasking and faster multitasking ...