Lollipop on AT&T

[jor-el]

Will I ever get the upgrade to my att branded moto x? It has been months. Switched from verizon to att because of the slow updates to software and now this.

 

[Rukbat]

You switched from a company that's slow with updates to the company that's slowest in updates. Will they release Lollipop? Most likely. When? Maybe before the summer, maybe not. (Remember, the latest Lollipop release, 5.0.2, is a bug fix - that probably still has lots of bugs. I don't know why anyone would want to risk his phone to alpha test something for Google for free. Wait until there's a fairly stable version, then start complaining. Until then, update to the Material Design version of all your apps - that's about all you're going to get over 4.4.4.)

Don't judge updates by Google's announced release date. Once Google releases it, the manufacturers have to modify it to work on their phones - that takes months. (Android is written to run on the current Nexus phone.) Once a manufacturer releases their version of the current Android to the carrier, the carrier makes its modifications. That can take months. A difference of 6 months between the Google release and your carrier's release isn't slow, it's normal.

(The reason Apple can release updates so quickly is that they're writing, at most, 3 versions - North American GSM, world GSM and CDMA. They don't announce the "release date" until it's been written, alpha tested, beta tested and ready for release. It's like "forecasting" who's going to win the 1948 presidential election. All the many months you hear rumors of an impending iOS release, it's actually being worked on, tested, debugged, etc. There's no delay between "it's done" and "it's released" except for the one Apple inserts to make you think they work so fast - you'd never believe that they wrote it overnight, so they can't announce that they're going to be working on one on Monday and release it on Tuesday. But it takes just as long for Apple to write a new version of iOS as it takes Google to write a new version of Android.)

 

[jor-el]

Interesting. Before I switched (updates weren't the only reason) I'd read that Verizon was the slowest. I also understand bugs but it doesn't seem advantageous for Google to put updates for the same phone on a Google play edition and att, Verizon etc. to be so far behind in the update for their version of the same phone.

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[cgardnervt]

If updates are that important to you then the Pure Edition what you should have bought. I got the PE for a few reasons...

#1 Updates
#2 No longer tied down to a contract.

Plus the carrier should not care about my updates IMO. In any case what made you go with the att branded one?

Otherwise I love att's service! We got 2 lines and 2 unbranded att phones. Moto X 14' and a Moto G LTE. Loving both due to quick updates.

 

[benhaube]

First of all, Lollipop Android 5.0 does not have nearly as many bugs as a previous poster alluded to. Yes, there are some, but for the most part 5.0 is much smoother than 4.4.4.

Second, phone manufactures get code from Google long before the next version of Android is released to AOSP. they have at least a month before Google releases code to AOSP to work with the code. The only reason the update is held up with the ATT version if the Moto X is because ATT hasn't approved it for whatever reason.

 

[jor-el]

Short sidedness was the cause. Kinda. I needed a phone. I wanted the x and the Motorola website had a two week back order at the time. The local att store had a branded version.

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[anon(8328984)]

I would say in a couple of weeks!

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[peteygrizz]

Probably the day after hell freezes over. AT&T absolutely sucks when it comes to software updates. You bought the phone, they don't care what happens after that.

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