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Google Quietly Unveils Android 5.1 Lollipop

Posted by samzenpus on from the latest-and-greatest dept.

An anonymous reader writes Google today announced that Android One, the company's standard for bringing smartphones to the developing world, is coming to Indonesia later this month. This makes Indonesia the fifth country to roll out Android One, in addition to India, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. Yet the bigger news is that these latest devices are shipping with Android 5.1 Lollipop. Before today, the latest known version of Google's mobile operating system was Android 5.0 Lollipop, which debuted in November 2014.

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  1. Re:Yes meanwhile.. by viperidaenz · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you want prompt OS updates, don't buy a Samsung. They never promised they'd give you later Android versions.

  2. Re:What is with naming software after candy? by Sreerambo · · Score: 5, Informative

    I think more people are starting to use semantic versioning: http://semver.org/

    The gist of it is:
    Given a version number MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH, increment the:

    MAJOR version when you make incompatible API changes,
    MINOR version when you add functionality in a backwards-compatible manner, and
    PATCH version when you make backwards-compatible bug fixes.

    This way the numbers actually mean something in a somewhat consistent way across programs.
    npm packages use this for example.