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Is Droid Turbo getting Lollipop?
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My original point has always been, why would Verizon pick on Motorola and not ANY other manufacturer they've already released Lollipop to? It simply doesn't make any sense. I think people are so focused on looking for someone to blame and Verizon is such an easy target. Because Motorola can't possibly have anything to do with it?
IDK, the saga continues. LOL
S5 tap'n
IDK, the saga continues. LOL
S5 tap'n
I hear you and I appreciate the opinion, however I don't believe that was Motorola's decision. Remember, this isn't JUST a Motorola device. In fact it's more a Verizon device in many ways than a Motorola device. It's a Droid. The Droid name is a registered trademark of Lucasfilm, Ltd. and licensed to Verizon. Since Verizon pays the licensing fees they own the Droid line of phones. They then likely contract Motorola (or in the past other manufacturers), to either make phones of a certain style, or decide which of the phones already in development will fit the moniker, and then specify features and software implementation to their own demands. In effect, Motorola is acting as a custom manufacturer for Verizon and Verizon calls the shots.
Verizon is anxious to move as much of its cellular data/voice communications over to LTE/VOLTE as possible, with the continuing efforts to advance the network towards LTE5 (5G). They are expected to continue providing CDMA 1X & EV-DO as well as 2G/3G service through 2021, yet this will be mainly to provide ongoing support for connected devices (think cars, shipping containers, industrial equipment and even vending machines and jukeboxes, all of which will need a network to link to), and not primarily for smartphone communications.
So Verizon would have mandated the removal of the dual antenna configuration on this new line of phones to reduce its impact on their networks and eliminate the need to run two connections at once to support simultaneous voice and data out (SVDO). By reducing the number of channels that a phone needs from two to one fit the same functionality they cut costs by potentially hundreds of millions of dollars per month in operational expense. Total operating revenues in second-quarter 2014 alone were $31.5 billion, with 104.6 million retail connections. Take that number of connections and let's be conservative and say half are not phones, and then that half again are not smartphones. So upwards of 25 million phones or more, until the introduction of VOLTE, using two network paths at once to communicate SVDO, and that spells a great expense.
Again, this is not Motorola's fault IMHO, although one could argue that Motorola may not be placing as great an emphasis on upgrading the Verizon branded phones as they are their own (think Nexus 6, Moto X, etc.), simply because the Droid line of phones is a small slice (comparably), of the total cellular phone business they do, most of which is not custom branded and custom manufactured. And lastly, because this Droid Turbo is the first Droid phone to not have the dual antenna/dual radio capability of earlier phones, it becomes the problem offspring for Motorola where Verizon is it's legal mother and guardian and therefore sets the ground rules, even though Motorola is it's biological father.
And to answer (again, my opinion), your question about why just Motorola? Well perhaps because Motorola may have been the least averse to making the latest lines of Droid phones, as opposed to HTC or Samsung or someone else. Samsung likely didn't want to do it because they are pushing brand recognition and their own line of phones (successfully) hard to compete head to head with the iPhone. HTC is struggling to maintain its brand, LG is pushing hard to carve a slice out of the pie, and the rest are more likely to get marketshare and build brands more effectively by maintaining zero dilution.
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hammerhead13
Gold Member
I think KK hurt Android with disabling Writing to the SD Card without Root. This is a big problem with phones with Little Memory and hurt my 16GB Note 2. That is why I didn't want to jump to KK from JB but when i had it replaced by BestBuy it came back with KK. I was so mad. Never saw Root again on that device.
hammerhead13
Gold Member
So now Verizon is Pushing the Droid Turbo in 3 New Metallic Colors. One would think that you would not want more Angry Customers then they already have. I think the Biggest issue is that you Have Android M around the Corner and we still haven't seen LL.
Good freaking lord . You all are acting like such drama queens . Even the Mods . Please gang your phone works just fine on KK. You all know Moto and Verizon are working on LP. And we will probably get it within the next couple to few weeks ." The phone forgotten " Talk about being melodramatic . Everyone is entitled to there opinion but if you sit back and read all this and actually use logic all of these Will the turbo get 5.X ever threads across all the different forums gets very laughable and annoying. Ok carry on back to the daily dose of 5.x drama. 
Sajo
Diamond Member
As far as angry customers goes....I will say this. The average cell phone user has no idea what OS their phone is on or which one is next. People at work ask me "what does this message mean" and I say "oh...your phone is prompting you to install android 5.x Lollipop" and they have no idea what that means or what to do next. Those if us that visit these forums often probably know about OS versions. But most phone owners have no idea what version if Android they have and don't care about the next one.
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And that's what these forums are for...to give people a place to complain..or boast..and express their frustrations...and I've got news for you...many people have issues with how their device works..mine is one of the ones that works well...but there are others that have drops.. Be it data or voice..Good freaking lord . You all are acting like such drama queens . Even the Mods . Please gang your phone works just fine on KK. You all know Moto and Verizon are working on LP. And we will probably get it within the next couple to few weeks ." The phone forgotten " Talk about being melodramatic . Everyone is entitled to there opinion but if you sit back and read all this and actually use logic all of these Will the turbo get 5.X ever threads across all the different forums gets very laughable and annoying. Ok carry on back to the daily dose of 5.x drama.
Others are having bigger issues like short battery life for whatever reason.. Even after doing fdr's ..there are people with constant force close issues... The list goes on and on...
But...whether your device works like a champ...or if it's sucking eggs....that's why we're here...
DESERPENTOR
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hammerhead13
Gold Member
Seriously, a Simulator! That is a joke. Who wants to see what 5.1 would be like on a simulator? Certainly not me.