Is the nexus 10 get Android L update?

[crxssi]

I bought the Xoom at Staples. For some reason I tend to remember it being 599. Did a few searches and found it had a price drop in July 2011 from 599 to 499. So that explains the difference. I got my xoom the first month it was released.

Ug, you were right.... I just checked my logs, I paid $589 for the Xoom from Costco on 03-27-2011. Terribly expensive.

 

[mavrrick]

I think we have digressed a bit from the original question though. I guess the point is there is a bit of presidency either way. The Android L preview is a good sign though.

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[Devlyn16]

I seem to recall during the Google I/O when they were discussing screen casting for the Chrome Cast they mentioned it would be Beta tested on the Nexus 7 2013 and Nexus 10. I take that as confirmation L will be released to the N10 because why would they bother testing it on the N10 if they were abandoning it?

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[Closingracer]

Yeah, but 64 bit for phones and tablets and TV's is still a major "yawn". Very little to gain, overall, and certainly not much need for more than 4GB of address space anytime soon. Of course it will come, anyway.



Yeah, but someone that bought it halfway might have only had it a year and many who bought it did not do so as developers (I certainly am not). I still think keeping it updated for at least 3 years from release and 1 year from discontinuance is reasonable for something so expensive (and with such originally high-end specs). But, it is not up to me

Note I just want to say I am no Apple Fanboy and while I like Apple products I prefer Android. Apple A7 CPU with it's 64 bit is pretty amazing as terms as usage goes on the Ipad air which I owned for around 4-6 months. I bought it simple because Apple has more dedicated Tablet apps + Better built tablets in general with its metal build. I found even though the Ipad Air only has 1GB of Ram and a 1.4 GHZ Dual Core 64 bit CPU it runs very fluid and even as a Samsung fan and love my Tab s the Apple Ipad Air is probably my favorite as terms as an overall Tablet goes without looking at Software and other features like Aspect ratio. The IPad Air is very fluid and has very little lag what so ever and even without +4GB of Ram 64 bit does help in areas of performance and battery life.


I think even if Android phones only come with 2-4 GB of RAM where 32 cpus can still be used I think 64 bit CPU's in Android would help with performance and Battery life in those devices.

 

[crxssi]

I think even if Android phones only come with 2-4 GB of RAM where 32 cpus can still be used I think 64 bit CPU's in Android would help with performance and Battery life in those devices

Adding a 64 bit instruction set and bus doesn't help real-world performance on typical devices more than maybe about 5%, overall (it is mostly marketing hype). And it should do almost much nothing for battery life. The main advantage is the larger address space for directly accessing more than 4GB of RAM. In devices with a fixed 4 or less, that isn't any advantage.

But since desktop machines are now pretty much all 64 bit, everything will move that direction, necessary or not... if nothing else, it keeps things consistent from an engineering and OS standpoint. Besides, the lines are blurring the devices together... so you will see Android Linux running on desktops/laptops and/or tablet/phone chips being used in desktops/laptops.

 

[mavrrick]

I would just point out that there is minimal computational advantage, but there is one under the correct situation.

A 64 bit CPU could benefit Android if the computational work was complicated enough. The problem is in most cases for a system to have work that complicated many other items will need to be updated like memory size and bus bandwidths to feed the data fast enough.
The most common boost from 64 bit is the increased addressable space and scientific computing.

The problem is the computational work almost all apps do is minor and repetitive. That is true for a desktop, phone, or tablet. That is why very little benefit is seen over 32 bit CPU ' other then increased ram. Now you do video editing or scientific computing like seti@home a huge advantage can be seen. The issue there for mobile is the trend is to offload that computing to the cloud so that work isn't on the portable device.

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