Android 6.0 Marshmallow is now and it looks like that among the flagship phones to get the new Google mobile operating system is the 2014 Motorola Moto X, a new report said. If true it is likely that the second-gen handset will jump to the new Android of the Moto X 2015.
There are clear indications that Motorola is hard at work to push Android Marshmallow to its line of smartphones soon, G4Games said in a new report. The tech blog site based its claim on published Interoperability Certificates in PDF form that say Android 6 will hit the 2014 Moto X anytime in October.
It is highly likely that the Marshmallow update for the second-gen Moto X will happen before the current Motorola flagship, the Moto X 2015, is bumped to the OS, the report added.
"Specifically, the PDFs reveal that the update is planned for a launch on the XT1092, the XT1093, XT1094, XT1095, XT1096, and XT1097," G4Games said, adding that the device model numbers refer to the Moto X 2014 variants.
The existence of the PDFs essentially confirmed that Marshmallow for the handsets is ready for dispatch.
As Google had already declared that Marshmallow will begin its global rollout on October 5 and with Nexus devices as the first recipients, it is safe to assume that the software will hit last year's Moto X no later than October, the report said.
However, the same documents carried no hints on when exactly the update to Marshmallow is happening for Moto X 2014 owners but it appears quite certain that they take a bite of the new Android sweet ahead of the Moto X 2014 users.
The chance is high too that Motorola smartphones, next to the Nexus devices, will get Android 6.0 Marshmallow in advance or way ahead of other Android flagships. The scenario is unsurprising at all as the Moto X, Moto G and Moto E basically run on vanilla Android.
So with Android 6 likely to bump up the second-gen Moto X real soon, the handset is geared to absorb the Marshmallow headline features - among them the Google Now On Tap and the Doze power management application tool that prolongs battery life.