when do you think the Nexus 5 will stop receiving Google updates?

[soccerballtux]

I'm just wondering. IMO the hardware is more than capable...for now...but with Facebook and everybody packaging all their UTF-32 support into every single binary and the runtime bloat...I'm starting to wonder if they'll pull the plug before finishing out android 6-point-whatever

 

[lothar]

Nexus 5 will get Android M for sure given it already has a "Developer" Preview for it.
That means the Nexus 5 will be guaranteed all Android M updates(M.02, M.1, M.1.1 and whatever future incarnations on the Android "M" line) until this time next year.

In fact, given what Lord Matías Duarte did with the 1st gen Nexus 7, I wouldn't be surprised if the Nexus 5 gets Android "N".
The 1st gen Nexus 7 technically was not supposed to get Lollipop, but Lord Matías Duarte signed an executive order to make it get one.

 

[soccerballtux]

wait, I thought M was for mobile or something? IE completely disregardable

edit: oh right, K, L, M, N...

 

[soccerballtux]

Nexus 5 will get Android M for sure given it already has a "Developer" Preview for it.
That means the Nexus 5 will be guaranteed all Android M updates(M.02, M.1, M.1.1 and whatever future incarnations on the Android "M" line) until this time next year.

In fact, given what Lord Matías Duarte did with the 1st gen Nexus 7, I wouldn't be surprised if the Nexus 5 gets Android "N".
The 1st gen Nexus 7 technically was not supposed to get Lollipop, but Lord Matías Duarte signed an executive order to make it get one.

is he a nice guy? why he did this? good for co image I guess, just seems abnormal.

 

[RossMAN]

My Nexus 5 has served me well but I'm selling it ASAP in anticipation of the newer Nexus 5, hopefully the rumors are true.

I guess we'll find out sometime in October.

 

[lothar]

is he a nice guy? why he did this? good for co image I guess, just seems abnormal.

I have no doubt that Google allowing the 1st Gen Nexus 7 to get Lollipop was due to company image.

Google's "official" stance is that they only guarantee updates for 18 months for all Nexus hardware, which "officially" should have ended January 2014 for the 1st gen Nexus 7.

 

[lothar]

My Nexus 5 has served me well but I'm selling it ASAP in anticipation of the newer Nexus 5, hopefully the rumors are true.

I guess we'll find out sometime in October.

Rumor has it that the new Nexus 5 will have SnapDragon 808, the same CPU in LG G4...Meh.
I was hoping for SnapDragon 820.

http://www.androidpolice.com/2015/0...ler-and-a-5-7-inch-huawei-code-name-bullhead/

 

[soccerballtux]

My Nexus 5 has served me well but I'm selling it ASAP in anticipation of the newer Nexus 5, hopefully the rumors are true.

I guess we'll find out sometime in October.

why? aside from storage read/write and I guess battery I don't think it needs an update.

doubly so if you're running a kernel with Same-Page mapping to de-duplicate redundant use of RAM; and ZRAM Frontswap and file allocation table buffering to speed things up

 

[lothar]

why? aside from storage read/write and I guess battery I don't think it needs an update.

doubly so if you're running a kernel with Same-Page mapping to de-duplicate redundant use of RAM; and ZRAM Frontswap and file allocation table buffering to speed things up

Because many people(me included) hate the Nexus 6 because of the "size" issue.