14 DAY TRIAL // It looks like Motorola has lost some precious time by trying to upgrade some of its older smartphones to Android 5.0 Lollipop. While the US-based company was testing the software update, Google released a new version of Android, thus making the previous versions obsolete.
The good news is Motorola's work is not totally worthless, on the contrary. The company has already started to test Android 5.0.2 Lollipop on the original Moto X, Moto E and Moto G with 4G LTE in several regions.
This means that Motorola hasn't yet started the rollout of Android 5.0.2 Lollipop for these smartphones and it never will.
In light of the fact that Google has already come out with Android 5.1 Lollipop and the changes included are pretty interesting, Motorola has decided to bring this version to its older smartphones too.
The new update should contain more new features and improvements
Today, Motorola confirmed that the original Moto X, Moto E and Moto G with 4G LTE would be upgraded directly to Android 5.1 Lollipop operating system.
Here is the company's official statement: “As some of you might know, we've been testing Lollipop 5.0.2 upgrades on Moto X (1st Gen), Moto E (1st Gen) and Moto G with 4G LTE (1st Gen) in several regions.
“In parallel we have started testing Lollipop 5.1 which was recently released by Google. Given the improvements in Lollipop 5.1, we have decided to move all efforts to upgrade these devices directly from KitKat to Lollipop 5.1.”
As you might have already noticed, Motorola did not share any details on the release date for Android 5.1 Lollipop for any of these smartphones, but we expect the company to try and bring it as quickly as possible.
Here is hoping Android 5.1 Lollipop for Moto X (1st Gen), Moto E (1st Gen) and Moto G with 4G LTE (1st Gen) will be rolled out sooner rather than later.