Bad news for users of the Nexus range which comes to us in the form of rumors. According to Andreas Proschofsky , a user who has attended the presentation of Google I / O 2015 in person, the Nexus 4 and Nexus 7 (2012) are not candidates to receive the Android M update. This was confirmed by a senior official from the American company Google, Dave Burke, who allegedly made a statement with this information after the event.
But, before we get our hands on our heads, it is important that we bear in mind that this information originates from the Google+ account of Andreas Proschofsky ( + AndreasProschofsky ), and no US media has yet published official information about it. The publication of this user is accompanied by a photograph in which we can see Dave Burke in what appears to be a closed-door meeting, and supposedly it would be there where this news would have been released.
But the rumor does not end there, since from the German website giga.de they even go so far as to assure that the Nexus 10 could also run out of official Android M update. In these three cases we are talking about devices that have been updated to Lollipop (all three are in the Android version 5.1.1 Lollipop), while the previous version of Android M has only been distributed in the Nexus 5, Nexus 6 and Nexus 9.
And what would be the reason why Google could decide to abandon the updates of the Nexus 4, Nexus 7 (2012) and Nexus 10 ? Posts to speculate, the antigí¼edad of these terminals is the most reasonable grounds to justify the lack of Android M. We are talking about some devices that were presented in 2012, and they did so with a version of the Android operating system that today is very far away: Android 4.2 Jelly Bean (even, in the case of the Nexus 7 (2012), it was Android 4.1). Since then they have not missed a beat with updates, reaching what is now the latest version of Lollipop.
As far as technical specifications are concerned, if we take the Nexus 4 as an example we will see that we are talking about a smartphone - manufactured by LG - whose performance is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor (APQ8064 model) with four cores that reaches a speed of clock 1.5GHz accompanied by a graphics processor Adreno 320, 2 gigabytes of RAM, 8 / 16 gigabytes of memory (without expansion) and a battery with 2100 mAh capacity. In the case of the Nexus 7 (2012) andNexus 10 we are talking about Nvidia Tegra 3 (quad-core, 1.2 GHz) and Exynos 5250 (two-core, 1.7 GHz) processors, respectively.
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