Android 5 release date, news and rumours
Android 5 is going to be exciting, there’s no doubt about that. Google saves the change to a new number for the big things, with both Honeycomb and Ice Cream Sandwich making big alterations to the way we use our Android phones.
We thought it would have been Key Lime Pie that showed off the next level, but on 31 October 2013, Google officially revealed its next minor update,Android 4.4 KitKat, which now clears the road for Android 5.
Android 5.0 release date
Until Android 4.4 was announced we had expected the Android 5.0 release date to be some time in October 2013. We instead saw Android 4.4 KitKatlaunch on 31 October, so now we’re expecting to see Android 5.0 shown off in mid-2014, quite possibly at Google IO, Google’s annual two-day developer conference in San Francisco.
That’s a year on from when we had originally expected to see Android 5.0, which was at Google IO 2013, which took place from May 15 to May 17 2013. Given that Google announced Android 4.1 Jelly Bean at 2012′s IO conference, we’re now desperate for the next iteration of the code.
Sundar Pichai, Google’s new head of Android told Wired that 2013′s IO was “not a time when we have much in the way of launches of new products or a new operating system”,” which makes us wonder when the new software will be coming.
Our take: Android updates are still coming too slowly for our liking, as while each 0.1-numbered upgrade is good, it’s not enough to make us want the native experience.
We’re expecting Google to make Android 5 rather special indeed, which means it can only wait a maximum of 6-7 months after KitKat was announced to show it off – so mid-2014 has to happen, in our opinion.
Android 5.0 features
Android Geeks reported that Google Babble would debut on Android 5.0. Babble was the code name for Google’s cross-platform service and app with the aim of unifying its various chat services which include Talk, Hangout, Voice, Messenger, Chat for Google Drive and Chat on Google+.
A screenshot that we were sent from a Google employee on 8 Aprilconfirmed that not only was this unified chat service on the way, but that it was called Google Babel not Babble. On 10 May, we discovered that Babel would launch as Google Hangouts, and on 15 May we saw it come to life for devices running Android 2.3 and up. So much for it debuting on Android 5...
#wait'n_4_maa_pie :/ ;)
Android 5 is going to be exciting, there’s no doubt about that. Google saves the change to a new number for the big things, with both Honeycomb and Ice Cream Sandwich making big alterations to the way we use our Android phones.
We thought it would have been Key Lime Pie that showed off the next level, but on 31 October 2013, Google officially revealed its next minor update,Android 4.4 KitKat, which now clears the road for Android 5.
Android 5.0 release date
Until Android 4.4 was announced we had expected the Android 5.0 release date to be some time in October 2013. We instead saw Android 4.4 KitKatlaunch on 31 October, so now we’re expecting to see Android 5.0 shown off in mid-2014, quite possibly at Google IO, Google’s annual two-day developer conference in San Francisco.
That’s a year on from when we had originally expected to see Android 5.0, which was at Google IO 2013, which took place from May 15 to May 17 2013. Given that Google announced Android 4.1 Jelly Bean at 2012′s IO conference, we’re now desperate for the next iteration of the code.
Sundar Pichai, Google’s new head of Android told Wired that 2013′s IO was “not a time when we have much in the way of launches of new products or a new operating system”,” which makes us wonder when the new software will be coming.
Our take: Android updates are still coming too slowly for our liking, as while each 0.1-numbered upgrade is good, it’s not enough to make us want the native experience.
We’re expecting Google to make Android 5 rather special indeed, which means it can only wait a maximum of 6-7 months after KitKat was announced to show it off – so mid-2014 has to happen, in our opinion.
Android 5.0 features
Android Geeks reported that Google Babble would debut on Android 5.0. Babble was the code name for Google’s cross-platform service and app with the aim of unifying its various chat services which include Talk, Hangout, Voice, Messenger, Chat for Google Drive and Chat on Google+.
A screenshot that we were sent from a Google employee on 8 Aprilconfirmed that not only was this unified chat service on the way, but that it was called Google Babel not Babble. On 10 May, we discovered that Babel would launch as Google Hangouts, and on 15 May we saw it come to life for devices running Android 2.3 and up. So much for it debuting on Android 5...
#wait'n_4_maa_pie :/ ;)
