Home » Technology » Mobiles » Sony explains the delay in updating to Android 9 Pie

Sony explains the delay in updating to Android 9 Pie

Sony

In case you’re similar to numerous cell phone users utilizing non-stock versions of Android, you’re most likely twiddling your thumbs sitting tight for your gadget manufacturer to discharge a move up to Android 9 Pie. However, have you asked for what reason you’re holding up so long when your Pixel-and Essential-toting friends as of now have their overhauls? Sony can clarify. In a blog entry promising Pie updates for ongoing Xperia telephones (the XZ Premium, XZ1 family, and XZ2 series) in November, the organization additionally gave an infographic plotting the means between Google’s OS discharge and seeing the new programming on your handset. It’s a streamlined interpretation of what’s occurring, yet it provides a decent outline of what’s included.

It’s not as basic as joining some custom code over Google’s stage. An organization like Sony, which doesn’t simply utilize an off-the-rack Qualcomm approach, needs to first make its own particular hardware abstraction layer to influence the new OS to work with its handsets. Sony additionally organizes its development changes, concentrating first on fundamentals like calls and data before proceeding onward to custom highlights like the camera application and Smart Stamina battery highlights.

There’s obviously heaps of testing. It begins with fundamental checks inside and outside of Sony, however, the organization at that point needs to approve that its updated telephones meet technology norms.

Furthermore, similar to it or not, bearers with customized programming will demand an approval process before their clients can get new OS adaptations.

This won’t come as a stun to a few, and it surely won’t pacify anybody condemning of the cold pace of numerous Android gadget updates. Sony itself takes note of that Xperia XA2-series owners won’t get their Pie overhauls until mid-2019, a while after Google’s variant.

Read: Tesla cars will offer video in future update promised by Elon Musk

Image via XDA Developers