Android 15: Google delays rollout on Pixel smartphones – probably won’t start before mid-October

In recent months, Google has released numerous pre-release versions of Android15 and sent the operating system through the usual long beta phase. This phase has now been completed and Pixel users are waiting every day for the rollout of the operating system – but nothing is happening for the time being. Because Google has announced that the rollout to the company’s own smartphones will take more than a month.

At the launch of a new Android generation, Google always publishes a roadmap with all planned versions and an approximate schedule – as is the case with Android 15. A look at the Android 15 schedule shows that the release of the operating system had already been introduced in August. Although it was open-ended and without any fixed date, the end of the timeline in August seemed very logical from the outside.

In fact, Google released the last Android 15 beta almost two weeks ago, officially ending the pre-release phase. It would therefore have been theoretically possible to release Android 15 at the same time as the Pixel 9 smartphones went on sale, allowing Neo owners to immediately switch to the new operating system. The launch of the Pixel 9 smartphones with Android 14 is a faux pas that shouldn’t have happened at Google.

But now it has been announced that Android 15 for Pixel smartphones will not be launched until October. August will also end without an update and the long September will not bring a software update either. Informed circles say that Google will release the final Android 15 on Monday, but that only applies to the general version and not the adapted Pixel variant.

This should not happen to Google
After almost seven months of beta phase and an expected almost-on-schedule release in early September, the delayed rollout to Pixel smartphones is incomprehensible. Of course, the argument keeps coming up that the product shouldn’t mature with the customer and should only be released when it’s really ready. But what could be wrong with it after the facts mentioned? The Android team has long since moved on to Android 15 QPR1.

Informed sources say that the deep AI integrations are challenging the Pixel team and necessitate the long time between the two releases. But isn’t that exactly why Google brought the Android and Pixel teams together under one roof at the beginning of the year to encourage collaboration? Why can Pixel users install a QPR1 beta but not a final Android 15, which should correspond pretty closely to Android 15 beta 4.2?

Google is once again not making any friends with this delay and should be careful not to further jeopardize this not entirely unimportant argument for the Pixel smartphones.

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