Good news for Galaxy Note 3 Neo owners – Android 5.0.1 Lollipop will come to your device. With Android 5.0 already being rolled out by AT&T for Note 3, we are certain that it won’t be long for the Neo to get some love. Samsung France announced on Twitter that the update will come out sometime in the second quarter of 2015, so we should be expecting it to roll out in April, May or June – worst case scenario is July.
In an avalanche of announcements, it seems like Samsung is at its end promoting their flagship phones, and tablets, and now is prioritizing their other, not so popular, not so advanced products – we should be expecting updates to be announced soon for Galaxy S5 Sport, Galaxy S5 Mini and Galaxy Alpha.
The Note 3 Neo is Note’s 3 international celebrity – it didn’t perform that well in the US, but somehow it did great in the UK, France and the rest of Europe. The Neo was introduced last year in February and it’s a smaller, less powerful version of the Note 3. Here are some of its technical capabilities:
- Super AMOLED capacitive touch-screen,
- Display of 5.5 inches, 720 x 1280 pixels
- CPU Quad-core 1.3 GHz Cortex A7 & dual-core 1.7 GHz Cortex A15
- GPU Mali-T624
- 16GB internal memory – with the option to add an microSD card up to 64GB
- 2GB RAM
- Primary Camera – 8 MP, 3264 x 2448 pixels, autofocus, LED flash
- Secondary Camera – 2 MP, 1080p
- Video – 1080p@30fps
- Li-Ion 3100 mAh battery
It’s available in Black, White, Green, Pink and Red.
With Android 5.0.1 rolling out, one should expect tons of issues to be fixed, and other features to be added. Sadly, this isn’t the case. Other owners of flagship phones that already have Android 5.0 have reported memory leaks, connectivity problems and other annoying random bugs that appear with no repro rate – making them hard to fix.
Android 5.1 Lollipop will be rolling out for Samsung’s flagship phones, and it is to be expect that Android 5.0.1 will be the last major update for their non-flagship products. I don’t want to be the bearer of bad news but it’s most likely that Android 5.0.1 will be the last major update for Galaxy Note 3 Neo, Galaxy S5 Sport, Galaxy S5 Mini and Galaxy Alpha.
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