may (or may not) release Android 5.1 soon, but either way the OS needs T

BY GreenBot Staff

Published 17 Dec 2014

Apparently, isn’t done updating llipop. Citing two unnamed but “trusted” sources, AndroidT alleges that will push a major software update in the new year. One of the two sources says the release is targeted for late February.

The report says the Android 5.1 update will come bundled with a RAM management feature, enhanced stability, a fix for sudden app closures (which I’ve personally been experiencing with the Nexus 9 on an almost daily basis).

There’s also a change log associated with this news. The full list of features bundled with the update is rumored to include:

• General improvements in system stability
• Improved RAM management
• Fixes for sudden app closures
• Improved battery management
• Excessive consumption of network devices when used -Fi fixed
• Issues with wireless connections fixed
• oblems with Okay function solved
• Notifications problems solved
• Some sound problems experience by certain devices fixed
• Other improvements changes

The story behind the story: There’s no way to officially confirm whether the February update to llipop is happening or not—at least not right now. That said, the “leaked” change log does add a smidgen of tenability to the rumor, if only because it points to specific issues with llipop that need to be addressed. It’s almost like a wish list of sorts, from Android users to engineers.

so, if does send out a mid-term update to its latest mobile operating system, it may throw off the OEMs. still haven’t seen what Samsung, , HTC will do with llipop, so what if their builds address some of what’s wrong with the latest version from ? ll it give users more incentive to try out a third-party version of Android, or will it further exacerbate the issue of fragmentation in the Android sphere?

Those answers will come with time. For now, we just know that the fixes listed in the presumptive change log look great on paper.