Motorola’s Moto G2 has been getting better and better, and ever since the device got updated to Android 5.0 Lollipop, reviewers have been even more positive towards the device. It doesn’t have the best hardware on the market, but it still manages to offer quite a lot to its users, even those who require slightly more power from their phone. It’s not a top-line Android device by any means, but it still manages to hold up nicely against other phones on the market.
And with its 5 inch screen, it offers nice picture quality and plenty of screen real estate for users to take full advantage of Android’s capabilities. Updating the phone to Android 5.0 introduces even more improvements to the overall experience, and makes the phone more stable and reliable as a whole, while its performance gets a nice boost too.
Let’s not forget that Android 5.0 drastically overhauled the operating system’s approach to its interface design, making it look much sleeker and more stylish, bringing it in line with modern trends in UI design. Many users have been praising Google for their hard work on Material Design, as even though it’s not such a unique idea in general, it still managed to do quite a lot for the operating system, and matches its visual style very nicely.
Now, however, we’ve been getting rumors that the device won’t be getting many new updates in the future, and it will likely stop before Android 5.1.1. 5.1 could be the last version that users get officially, as the company is now focusing on other phones and trying to allocate its resources adequately.
So far, Motorola have actually reportedly been quite busy with their work on Android and carrying over the new version of the OS to their own devices, and we’re likely going to see the results of those efforts on their more advanced handsets sometime soon. In the meantime, users of the Moto G2 will likely have to give up on the idea of getting regular OS updates from the official channel.
There’s always the option of using a custom ROM, on the other hand, and this will likely become the only available tool for those who want to keep their Android up to date in the future. The custom ROM community will probably not give up on the device that fast, and we will probably get at least a few images with major OS versions later down the road. Of course, stability and performance might stray away from what the official Android offers, but users will have to take whatever they can get.