A new report has surfaced on Monday saying that HTC smartphones will be among the first group of Android mobile devices to receive Google's latest mobile operating system, the Android 6.0 Marshallow. The news comes after HTC USA reportedly revealed via Twitter the list of smartphones that will be installed with Android Marshmallow.
The announcement was made by Jason Mackenzie, President of HTC America. Android Marshallow was both featured in Google's new-generation Nexus smartphones and Pixel C tablet. It can be recalled that the mobile operating system was officially announced on Sept. 29 during the company's media event, a report from iDigital Times said.
According to the report, Android Marshmallow will be rolled out to HTC's latest flagship smartphones, namely: HTC One M9 and HTC One M8, HTC One M9+, One E9+, One E9, One ME, One E8, E8 EYE, Butterfly 3, Desire 826, Desire 820, and 816.
It was, however, stressed that HTC One M9 and HTC One M8 will be able to receive Google's latest OS later this year. Also, the company has yet to announce the official release date of the Android Marshmallow update.
"With Android 6.0 Marshmallow Google's made lots of small changes and improvements over Android 5.1 Lollipop. Everything from the lockscreen, homescreen, notification bar, volume and permission controls, native fingerprint scanner support, Android Pay, better performance or battery life and tons of other small changes or security patches. That said, HTC covers it all with their own HTC Sense UI, which is part of the reason updates take upwards of 90 days, if not longer, to be implemented and rolled into software updates for owners," Gotta Mobile stated.
It should be noted that HTC will likely release the updates first in the United States before it is released to other parts of the world.
