Android 5.0 Will Launch This Fall With Five Nexus Devices: Report - knightwhock1985

When Android 5.0 "Gelatin Noggin" launches this fall, it wish come out initiative happening several new mobile devices sold-out by Google itself as part of the "Link" line of credit.

That's according to a Tuesday news report in the Rampart Street Journal, which reports that Google is shifting its Android strategy so that it will not but give select mobile-gimmick makers early access to new releases, but will also sell the resulting devices unlocked directly to consumers.

As many as five manufacturers May get on exempt approach to new releases of the mobile operating system, in fact, with an eye toward creating a "portfolio" of Nexus lead devices including some smartphones and tablets, the WSJ according, citing "a person acquainted with the matter."

Google aims to trade those gadgets online and contract-liberal now to consumers in the U.S., EC, and Asia, but retailers May be involved as healthy, the report suggests. U.S. Thanksgiving is reportedly the target see for the launch.

Au revoir, Fragmentation

While Android has clearly done enormously recovered, inconsistency and atomisation are among the chief complaints about the Linux-based mobile operating system. This young strategy could see that more Android phones are running the latest variation of the OS; it could also help oneself other manufacturers create their own bespoken builds more cursorily.

Much a strategy would also restore a significant degree of control back to Google, which has long been at the clemency of wireless carriers for pushing updates to consumers, as well A for decisions as to which apps can be included on the devices they pack. Verizon Wireless, for example, doesn't allow the Google Wallet app on Samsung's Galaxy Nexus device.

To boot, the raw tactic could minimize device-makers' concerns over Google's pending Motorola Mobility acquisition, since IT won't be just Motorola acquiring embryotic access to new releases.

Not Without Risks

Bypassing wireless carriers, naturally, has the potential to enrage the carriers themselves.

Then, too, there's the proven difficulty of selling handsets online to consumers, who make indicated in the past that they prefer to be able to touch them and try them out before buying.

Still, the stir could be an glamorous nonpareil, removing as it would any disfavor Android might grimace in its current competition with Orchard apple tree, which has always been at the opposite last of the spectrum when it comes to controlling its ecosystem.

A more unified front could too facilitate in Google's ongoing sanctioned battles o'er Android.

Your Move, Tizen

I spoke shortly with Google spokesman Christopher Katsaros this morn for confirmation, but he declined to comment on the story.

Meanwhile, I can't help but wonder what effect every this may stimulate on the other transferrable players, including most notably Linux-based (and Samsung-backed) Tizen along with Mozilla's possess Boot to Gecko. If zip else, it seems to Maine information technology might encourage them to step up their own efforts.

It looks as though contender in the floating market just became tighter.