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Motorola announced brand new Android hardware on Tuesday, including the sleek and affordable Moto X Pure Edition phablet and the significantly updated budget-friendly Moto G. But there’s also one other thing Motorola plans to do starting with these phones in order to fix the most annoying thing about Android.
That
might change for these new Motorola handsets, which is even more
exciting considering that Motorola is already very quick to release new
Android updates.
In an interview with Engadget,
Motorola’s senior vice president of software Seang Chau revealed that
there’s a reason neither phone is going to be sold by carriers, and this
decision will have a profound effect on Android releases such as the
upcoming Android M update.
“We
decided we were going direct-to-consumer because all the carriers now
are moving toward this T-Mobile/UnCarrier model where they’re not
subsidizing anymore and contracts aren’t there and people can move
between carriers as they see fit depending on who’s got the better
price,” he told the blog.
In
other words, you won’t find a subsidized Moto X Pure or Moto G, as
Motorola isn’t dealing with carriers this year. And by removing the
middleman, Motorola said it’ll be able to control the faith of updates.
“Going
with that retail and distribution model is fantastic for us And the big
impact for software is: I don’t need carrier approvals anymore to push
out updates!” Chau added. “So now I can push out updates and upgrades
like Android M quicker because I don’t need to go through a carrier’s
submission process. I still go through all my quality checks and all
that, but I don’t need a carrier to tell me I can upgrade my phone.”
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