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The state of Android updates Android 4.4, KitKatwas released on October 31, 2013, or at least, coque iphone channel that’s what you can say aboutone device: theNexus 5. For the rest of the ecosystem, thedate you got KitKat if you got KitKat varied wildly depending on your device, OEM, and carrier. Further ReadingThe checkered, slow history of Android handset coque iphone coque galaxy s6 edge silicone rose 7 e updates For every Android update, Google’srelease of code to OEMs starts an industry wide race to get the new coque iphone 6 drapeau france enhancementsoutto customers. All of these charts measure KitKat’s update lag time in months. For our start date, we’re pickingOctober 31, 2013, the day KitKat was released on the Nexus 5. sac pokemon For our finish time for each device, we’re going with the US release of an update via either OTA or downloadable system image. OTAs are done on a staggered release schedule, so it’s hard to tellexactlywhen they start and finish we just went with the earliest news of an update. The device manufacturers Update times from OEMs on unlocked devices. Here there are nocarriers to get in the way. The above chart shows the definition of “flagship” we’ll be using for most of coque disney galaxy j3 2016 this article. iphone 11 case We picked the newest high profiledevices that didn’t ship with KitKat from each major OEM. That subset ends up being devices that largely launched in 2013. We single out flagships because those are the most exciting phones and the most relevant examples of a company’s update policy it’s good to see how well an OEM can do when it is trying its hardest to update something quickly. coussin pokemon (Don’t worry, we’ll coque iphone 4 bts tackleolder devices and non flagships later on.) The winner for update times is, of course, the Nexus line. Stock software and a head start from being Google gotKitKat out the door injust 14 days. As for everyone else, how quickly theyupdateseems to dependon how complicated theirskin is and how much theytake advantage of the update mechanisms Google has created. Motorola A beacon of light in the darkness In the coque iphone 5c charlie puth wide world of non Nexus devices,the then Google owned Motorola did great, too, coming in at an almost Nexus like time of 19 days. coque iphone Like the Nexus program, Motorola washelped out coque iphone 5s t by a close to stock software loadout and a focus on a small number of devices. Motorolakeeps most of its changes to bundled apps, and it tries to stay away from modifying the Android framework. When it comes time to update to a new version of Android, this means much less porting is needed. coque iphone 4sdragon ball z Google coque iphone 6 supreme chat works very hard to not break app compatibility, so most of Motorola’s work gets done for it. Further ReadingGreater than the sum of its specs: Google Moto X reviewed The usual justification for skinning Android is “differentiation,” and Motorola even manages to do that better than its competitors. The Moto X’s always on voice recognition and Active Display are some of the most usefuldifferentiators in the industry, andthe excellent Motorola Spotlight Player adds a bit of exclusive fun to the equation, too. coque samsung Motorolatakes full advantage of the Play Store,allowing for out of cycle updates forMotorola’s bundled apps. The company even mirrors Google’sPlay Servicesstrategy by offloading core libraries and services to the Play Store. There’sMotorola Contextual Services, which handles detection for the automatic do coque integrale galaxy a70 not disturb, driving, and home modes, and Motorola Modality Services, which helps out accelerometer driven apps. Motorola coque iphone se japon is a shining example of “doing it right” coque iphone 6 fre when it comes to skinning Android; every other OEM should be taking notes. Will Motorola be coque galaxy j3 2016 chasse able to continue itsstellar track record of updates in the future,or will Lenovo ruin a good thing HTC Transparency that should be applauded HTC did surprisingly well getting KitKat to the unlocked One M7 in abouta month. coque iphone iphone 11 pro hoesje The company has committed to supporting its North American flagships coque iphone 6 epaisse with updates for two years, promising to shipAndroid L toall variants of the One M7 and M8 within 90 days of its release. coque huawei (HTC promised the same of KitKat and later apologized when itdidn’t quite make the 90 day cut,but still, we coque iphone 5s antichoc amazon appreciate the coque iphone asus zenfone 2 effort.) HTC has a tighter focus on products lately, relaxing from its frantic pace ofover two dozen models in 2011 to just a handful of productsthis year. coque huawei The company has also worked to make its Android skin, HTC Sense, more modular, offloading many apps to the Play Store the same way Google and Motorola do. The company even coque iphone 6s coloré has a Google Play Services style app called “HTC Service Pack,” which allows it to update parts of Sense without having to push out an OTA. Samsung A monolithic skin that takesa while to update Samsung easily sells the most Android devices, making its update speed the most important for coque iphone 5s rose apple the health of the overall OS ecosystem. It’s a shame then that the company does very little to speed up the update process. iphone 6 6s hoesje Samsung uses a heavy monolithic skin with none of the update coque galaxy s8 bumper friendly architecture that isemployed by itscompetitors. TouchWiz extensively modifies the Android framework to make things likesplit screen apps, pen input, and floating windows possible. It skins every area of the OS and maintains a plethora of apps that duplicate Google functionality while providing seemingly little benefit to the user. coque iphone The worst part is that all of this is delivered to the user in a giant brick. Samsung doesn’t take advantage of the Play Store to update coque iphone 5 panda roux apps and services outside of an OTA, because everything is coque iphone se noel so integrated with the core OS. Samsung also has the widest lineup of all the Android OEMs. Itsstrategy seems to be to flood the market with as many different modelsas possible GSM Arena’s phone database listsphones(not includingtablets) released by Samsung in 2013. It’s pretty much impossible to updatethat many devices in a timely manner. coque huawei It should come as no surprise that the Note 3 took twice as long as the HTC One to get KitKat, and the Galaxy S4 wasalmost four times slower than HTC’s effort. coque huawei That’s not even countingSamsung’s 26 other lower profile Android phones or its piles and piles of tablets. t shirts pokemon LG A minimal effort LG came in dead last with a whopping 4.6 month wait for KitKat on the unlocked G2. coque iphone You would think the maker of the last two Nexus phones would have picked up a thing or two from Google, but like Samsung, LG has an old school monolithic skin and takes its sweet time updating it. goed samsung hoesje For the chart above,we picked unlocked phones so we coque galaxy a3 2017 liquide would havea baseline that was unaffectedby carrierred tape. bijoux personnalise Interestingly, the unlocked G2 wasn’t the first G2 to coque iphone 5c mini in the box get KitKat. That honor goes to the AT G2, which took3.8 months.