Android 5.0 Lollipop • Hacker News Board

Re: Android 5.0 Lollipop

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Post by nucleardog » Wed, Oct 15, 2014, 5:08 PM UTC

k-mcgrady wrote: post #3

So the Nexus 4, which is just under 2 years old, won't support Lollipop? Considering the device is from Google and not through a carrier I would expect better. No pricing on the Nexus 6 but I would expect it will cost a lot more than Nexus devices have in the past. And at only 1 inch less than their Nexus 7 tablet it seems ridiculously large. At what point is it a tablet that makes calls and not a phone? Nexus Player…

Regardless of being officially supported (which it is) it's still a popular phone still in use by a lot of developers.

You might have to wait another month for it to hit AOSP and some of the ROM developers to merge it in, but I generally count on a Cyanogenmod release within a month.

Re: Android 5.0 Lollipop

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Post by Touche » Wed, Oct 15, 2014, 5:10 PM UTC

k-mcgrady wrote: post #3

So the Nexus 4, which is just under 2 years old, won't support Lollipop? Considering the device is from Google and not through a carrier I would expect better. No pricing on the Nexus 6 but I would expect it will cost a lot more than Nexus devices have in the past. And at only 1 inch less than their Nexus 7 tablet it seems ridiculously large. At what point is it a tablet that makes calls and not a phone? Nexus Player…

This has happened for every single Nexus device, since the Nexus One. I don't know why people keep talking about the Nexus as somehow having fresh OS upgrades; they do not.

Re: Android 5.0 Lollipop

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Post by thrownaway2424 » Wed, Oct 15, 2014, 5:11 PM UTC

Dylan16807 wrote: post #9

k-mcgrady wrote: post #3

So the Nexus 4, which is just under 2 years old, won't support Lollipop? Considering the device is from Google and not through a carrier I would expect better. No pricing on the Nexus 6 but I would expect it will cost a lot more than Nexus devices have in the past. And at only 1 inch less than their Nexus 7 tablet it seems ridiculously large. At what point is it a tablet that makes calls and not a phone? Nexus Player…

More importantly they were still selling it less than a year ago.

Just over a year ago, actually. It disappeared from the Play Store in September 2013.

Re: Android 5.0 Lollipop

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Post by dotBen » Wed, Oct 15, 2014, 5:12 PM UTC

Wondering if Google will clarify the upgrade path for those of us with Android L side loaded onto our phones.

My guess is it will require a re-flash back to KitKat so that Lollipop can be auto-upgrade over the air. In which case I might as well get that going now...

Re: Android 5.0 Lollipop

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Post by dabeeeenster » Wed, Oct 15, 2014, 5:17 PM UTC

k-mcgrady wrote: post #3

So the Nexus 4, which is just under 2 years old, won't support Lollipop? Considering the device is from Google and not through a carrier I would expect better. No pricing on the Nexus 6 but I would expect it will cost a lot more than Nexus devices have in the past. And at only 1 inch less than their Nexus 7 tablet it seems ridiculously large. At what point is it a tablet that makes calls and not a phone? Nexus Player…

https://plus.google.com/+MatiasDuarte/posts/haoy5nDv6yr

Re: Android 5.0 Lollipop

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Post by higherpurpose » Wed, Oct 15, 2014, 5:17 PM UTC

This is a better link:

https://android.com/versions/lollipop-5-0/

Re: Android 5.0 Lollipop

#47

Post by ToastyMallows » Wed, Oct 15, 2014, 5:18 PM UTC

aroman wrote: post #25

jastanton wrote: post #13

6 hours of battery life for 15 minutes of charging? Wow.

This seems like a misleading claim, based on their "24-hour battery life" claim, which is in fact 24 hours of cellular talk time, with Wi-Fi off . From http://www.google.com/nexus/6/ Testing was conducted by Google using pre-production Nexus 6 devices and software. Talk time tests used default settings with Wi-Fi off and LTE on. Standby time tests used default settings with LTE on and Wi-Fi on. Wi-Fi internet tests h…

I'm tried of companies doing this, they're all guilty of it. At least be honest about.

1 week battery life!*

*In airplane mode, no apps running and the screen was only turned on once a day

Re: Android 5.0 Lollipop

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Post by fakename » Wed, Oct 15, 2014, 5:20 PM UTC

"Improved network selection logic so that your device connects only if there is a verified internet connection on Wi-Fi"

jfc, I can't believe this is just now being fixed. This has to be the most infuriatingly stupid thing about android. I don't have hopes of them adding the ability to intelligently switch from a weak wifi signal to a strong cell signal, but this is a step in the right direction. No more assuming I have no new emails/texts when I'm in an airport because my phone quietly joined a wifi network and is waiting for me to open a browser and log in.

Re: Android 5.0 Lollipop

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Post by izacus » Wed, Oct 15, 2014, 5:21 PM UTC

dotBen wrote: post #44

Wondering if Google will clarify the upgrade path for those of us with Android L side loaded onto our phones. My guess is it will require a re-flash back to KitKat so that Lollipop can be auto-upgrade over the air. In which case I might as well get that going now...

I doubt there will be an OTA, you'll just have to flash the full "clean install" factory image as it becomes available. Probably factory reset the phone as well.

Re: Android 5.0 Lollipop

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Post by wldcordeiro » Wed, Oct 15, 2014, 5:21 PM UTC

spindritf wrote: post #35

Motorola will also update their older phones to Lollipop. Including Moto X and G starting with the 1st gen. http://motorola-blog.blogspot.com/2014/10/its-official-andro...

Most excellent! I just barely got a Moto X (2014) just a couple weeks ago and it's great to hear that it'll be coming my way soon.