The update to Android 5.1 Lollipop will also land in the catalog of smartphones of the Taiwanese firm HTC. After knowing that the HTC One (2013) will not be updated to this new version of Lollipop, this time HTC itself has confirmed through social networks that the HTC One M8 will be updated to Android 5.1 Lollipop (along with the interface of Sense 7) during the next August.
The confirmation of this date has been produced in the official account of HTC on Twitter (in its English version, @HTC_UK ), where a response to a user asking for the date on which the next update will begin to be distributed has been published operating system of the HTC One M8 (referring to some kind of problem with a Cisco application). HTC replies to this user stating that “ the HTC One M8 will receive an update with the version of Android 5.1 Lollipop and Sense 7 in April 2015 ". Of course, the wait will not be exactly short, especially considering that the distribution of this update will likely vary by country.
The update to Android 5.1 Lollipop of the HTC One M8 will not only bring with it the new features of this new version of Lollipop (corrections of errors related to performance, new Protection Mode of the device (related to the blocking of stolen terminals) and some minor tweaks to the interface), but will also incorporate the Sense 7 version of the Sense UI interface. This version is precisely the same as the one that the HTC One M9 incorporates from the factory, and its design is strongly influenced by the Material Design line.that characterizes the Lollipop update.
As of today, the HTC One M8 has already started receiving the Android 5.0 Lollipop update in some European countries. The distribution of this update is being gradual, and not in all countries it is still possible to update the One M8 to this version (which, by the way, comes in an update that occupies more than 700 MegaBytes). Owners of this mobile who have not yet received any Lollipop update can get an idea of the visual novelties they will find by taking a look at the video that was leaked of this update at the time.
What does the predecessor of the M8 One, the HTC One M7 of 2013 ? It turns out that it 's been over two years since it was introduced this mobile (February of the 2013), and a senior HTC confirmed that this was precisely why the HTC One (2013) will not be updated with any new version Android operating system.
