Saturday, 8 November 2014

Android 5.0 Lollipop demoed on a Samsung Galaxy S4

Video shows an early build of the latest version of Android running quite well on Samsung’s yesteryear flagship.*



Nexus devices will be the first to get updated to Android 5.0 Lollipop, but various manufacturers have revealed time frames for when their users can expect their devices to get the coveted new version of Google’s popular OS. Samsung, as always, didn’t give any estimated release dates for the Lollipop update, but as a recent video showed, the Korean manufacturer is certainly working as fast as it can to port Lollipop to at least the Galaxy S5.

Well, it looks like Samsung hasn’t forgotten about the Galaxy S4, its Galaxy S flagship from 2013. The folks over at SamMobile have released a video that shows Lollipop running on the Exynos version of the S4. Like before, we’re treated to an extremely early build*– it*has issues like non-working Wi-Fi, but even at an early stage, seems to run quite fast and smooth.*This is probably a result of the under the hood performance changes in Android 5.0, and hopefully, also a result of Samsung finally coming around to optimizing its software.

Speaking of Samsung’s software, the overall look and feel of the build running on the S4 is pretty much identical to what we saw on the Galaxy S5. It’s basically a mashup of Samsung’s infamous TouchWiz skin and Google’s new Material Design philosophy, and while it’s nowhere near the modernness and beauty of Material Design seen on stock Android, it certainly looks considerably better than the UX on the company’s devices right now, .

Being an early build, the Lollipop firmware for the S4 hasn’t been made available for download, but the video below should certainly get Galaxy S4 owners even more impatient about one of the biggest updates to Android yet.





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Source: SamMobile



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