It had to happen, and it did. Vivo has beaten Google to become the first manufacturer to launch a stable version of Android 15 on a smartphone. The lucky one is the X Fold3 Pro, the latest high-end foldable from this Asian company.
For the first time, the stable version of Android hasn’t arrived on a Google smartphone or partner manufacturer. It comes in a Chinese high-end device. The launch of the Google Pixel 9 and 9 Pro with Android 14 was already a warning: Android 15 would arrive late on Google phones, and no one knew what would happen.
Android 15 has been available in Android Open Source Project (AOSP) since Sep. 5, opening a rather unusual door. Any manufacturer could launch the stable version before Google, so eyes were on manufacturers such as Samsung and Xiaomi. Still, Vivo was the first to get ahead of the Pixel smartphones.
Once the code is in AOSP, any manufacturer can release the update, and Vivo was the first company to make Android 15 stable.
The Pixels can currently test Android 15, but only in its beta version. The stable version could arrive in mid-October. One of the few criticisms of the new Pixel 9 is that it has seven years of updates, but Google should have launched it with Android 15.
This is the first time a brand outside of Google’s ROM has released a stable version of Android before its creators. This year, there has been quite a delay between the release of Android 15 on AOSP and the stable ROM for the Pixels.
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