The Japanese company Sony has just officially confirmed that the Sony Xperia E and its Dual-SIM version will not receive new operating system updates. This has been stated through its official website, where the Sony Xperia E appears with the version of Android 4.1.1 Jelly Bean as the latest update available for this model. In short, this means that Sony Xperia E owners will have to settle for Android 4.1.1 Jelly Bean version of the Android operating system for the rest of the life of their mobile.
The fact that Sony decides to suspend updates to a certain smartphone model is not something new, especially in lower-middle-range mobiles that have already been on the market for more than a year (in the case of the Sony Xperia E, its official presentation occurred at the end of 2012). In fact, if we take a look at the latest news related to Sony updates we will see mobiles such as the Sony Xperia T, TX and V or the Sony Xperia SL, Acro S and Ion they will not receive new operating system updates either.
On the other hand, if we take a look at the Sony Xperia E we will see that we are facing a mobile whose technical specifications could hardly continue to adapt to the operating system updates launched today by large manufacturers. The Sony Xperia E incorporates a screen of 3.5 inches with 480 x 320 pixel resolution, a processor Qualcomm of a single core operating at 1 GHz clock speed, 512 megabytes of memory RAM, 4 gigabytes of internal storage, a main chamber 3.2 megapixels and a battery1,500 mAh. Even if these specifications were capable of fluently moving some recent Android update (see Android 4.3 Jelly Bean, for example), the real reason why Sony has decided to end the updates of this mobile is due to its age.
On the other hand, the Sony Xperia E1 (the immediate successor of this mobile, presented at the beginning of 2014), incorporates slightly improved technical specifications that have made it possible for this terminal to receive the Android 4.4.2 KitKat update (one of the latest versions of the Android operating system). The Sony Xperia E1 incorporates a screen of four inches with a resolution of 800 x 480 pixels, a processor Qualcomm of dual - core running at a clock speed of 1.2 GHz, 512 megabytes of memory RAM, 4 gigabytes of internal storage, a main chamber three - megapixel and a battery of 1,700 mAh.
Owners of a Sony Xperia E can rest assured that the fact that they will not receive more updates should not pose any problem in the operation of their terminal, although they do have to take into account that more and more Google Play applications require At least the version of Android 4.2 Jelly Bean to be installed on a mobile with the Android operating system.
