Android 10 is expected to begin rolling out sometime next month to all Pixel phones. According to Canadian carrier Rogers today, the Android 10 launch date is Tuesday, September 3rd.
For the past several years, Google has released Android versions at the start of the month alongside security patches. Given that the first Monday of September is Labor Day in the United States, Google looks to be targeting the day after.
Now the waiting game begins for the 99.9% of Android users who do not have a Pixel.
I would not read too much into this article, since they can not even spell “Labour” correctly.
I would not read too much into the spelling, considering 9to5 is an American site, and Labor is in fact the correct spelling there.
How is labourious spelled in american english? Laborios?
“Now the waiting game begins for the 99.9% of Android users who do not have a Pixel.”
Why tho? What makes Android 10 so precious?
Thom, I realize that you’re frustrated with Android’s update history. But, I think it’s fair to point out that Android Q/10 is going off way better than previous releases as far as who gets it and how quickly:
https://developer.android.com/preview/devices
Should we not be happy that Project Treble is yielding tangible results that help and favor consumers?
How about some optimism?
My real question is: why the hell did Google allow the carrier to have any influence on updates at all? Say what you want about Apple–and there’s plenty that isn’t good–but they got that bit right, at least. With all Google’s talk about how they want to fix the Android update experience, really! Honest, we do! Why did they let any carriers have influence on their own flagship Pixel line?
Idiots!
I’m not sure they did have much say, if any. I’m sure Google kept them informed, but I have T-Mobile here in the US, and while they do eventually release updates for their better phones (And are quite communicative about progress for each phone), they often take a long time to actually push updates out.
That said, my Pixel 3a got the update today.
They clearly have some influence if the carrier gets to decide when someone’s phone does or does not get an update, even on Google’s own flagships.
Where do you see that the carriers are deciding who gets the update on the Pixel phones? I see no indication of that.
It’s the cell phone network modem chips, no one wants to give up the code to run them. Apple managed to strong-arm their way into updating their own phones, but qualcomm and the like make it impossible to simply update the OS and not need to verify a new driver for their modem chips will be needed for Android phones.