Android: What brands launch faster updates? – Pplware

One of the biggest complaints in the Android universe is the lack of updates or the time it takes to arrive. Blame this point is unique to manufacturers, to whom Google does not require updates.

A study carried out by the company Apteligent has now reveal which brands more quickly update their devices, thus giving the best experience to users.

One of the main reasons for brands to delay the updates of their smartphones is the need to adapt all your applications and your hardware to newer versions of Android. This is the reason why the Nexus smartphones are always the reference and are always up to date.

To present the results now revealed, the Apteligent evaluated the time that the major brands slow to update the Android 5.X to version 6.0, leaving out the, obvious, Nexus smartphones from Google.

what brands launch faster updates

the study of Apteligent reveals that, for updates, manufacturers they can be divided into two categories. Those that took less than three months and it took more than 5 months.

The big winner was Motorola, which updated its equipment in about two months, followed by LG and the HTC, which took about 3 months to release this update.

the brands that took longer are Samsung and Sony, which took more than five months. ZTE was the brand that most drawled, releasing the update later and to a limited group of equipment.

The marks on the Android least fails

In addition to assessing the speed of Android update, the Apteligent also evaluated the brands that Android is more stable and which have fewer failures. To this end, it measured the number of failures of applications running on Android.

The brand that most stood out at this point was Sony, which had only an average of 0.08% failures. Motorola comes in second with 0.09% and in third place is HTC, with 0.1%. ZTE returns to the latest ranking of the list, with 0.28%.

Rank	Manufacturer	# Device Types & gt ; 0.5M loads / day	Average Crash Rate
1	Sony	35	00:08%
2	Motorola	17	0:09 %
3	HTC	17	0.1%
4	Samsung	117	00:11%
4	LG	70	00:11%
5	ZTE	18	12:28%

fragmentation in the Android universe

One last information that can be obtained from this study shows that it is in Russia that they can find larger Android fragmentation levels. This country is followed at the top of the table by Ukraine and the Czech Republic.

Portugal is present in this list, taking ninth place, behind India and ahead of Romania.

After presenting the results of this study, Apteligent recommendations are almost obvious. Users who want to have the fastest updates and the purest Android should opt for a Nexus smartphone.

Only these smartphones have guaranteed to have faster access to new versions of Android without any additional software that often only limited benefits of this operating system.