Now that Google has formally unveiled, pushed out, and named Android 9 Pie, the one remaining query is when your handset goes to get it – and for HTC homeowners, we now have a bit extra readability on which telephones are in and which telephones are out of the Pie celebration.
Through a tweet from the official HTC account, the corporate has confirmed that the HTC U12 Plus, the HTC U11 Plus, the HTC U11 and the HTC U11 Life are all in line for the software program improve. That is mainly all of the top-end telephones that HTC has launched over the course of this yr and final yr.
What’s much less clear is when precisely the Pie improve will seem – HTC says timeframes are going to be introduced “sooner or later”, so you may nonetheless have to hold tight for now. Let’s hope HTC’s engineers get the software program prepared sooner relatively than later.
Pie within the sky
After all it is a long-running headache for Google that new variations of Android take an age to make it to nearly all of handsets. Android 9 Pie has been pushed out to Pixel telephones and the Important telephone however everybody else remains to be ready.
Samsung greeted the information of Pie’s arrival by saying that 12 of its gadgets are in line to get Android 8 Oreo – Pie’s predecessor – someday within the subsequent six months or so. No rush, Samsung. It is no surprise that Google updates its cell apps and a few core options in Google Play Companies independently of the most important Android updates.
At the very least HTC telephone homeowners now have some form of affirmation about which handsets are due a Pie improve. Within the meantime all eyes are on Google for the final huge Android flagship launches of the yr, anticipated across the begin of October.
- You may anticipate fewer telephones from HTC in 2018 and past
Through Android Police
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