Quite a lot of Android telephones have thus far obtained their respective replace to Android 15, however you probably have one thing Android-powered that is not a smartphone or a pill, your mileage could fluctuate. TVs are nonetheless on Android 14, but it surely’s more and more trying like Google would possibly simply skip the Android 15 replace for Google TV and Android TV-powered gadgets.

Google is outwardly onerous at work making ready Android 16 for TV, however within the meantime, it may not launch the most recent model of Android on TVs and streaming gadgets. The schedule for the upcoming Google I/O developer convention was lately revealed, which explicitly mentions preparations for “Android 16 for TV” as a part of the Android TV session. This, coupled with the entire absence of any bulletins concerning an Android TV 15 over the previous few months, suggests Google would possibly bypass model 15 totally for its tv platform, leaping straight from the present Android TV 14 to the brand new Android TV 16.

For years, the discharge cadence for Android TV adopted, for essentially the most half, cellular Android’s launch cadence, delivering a brand new model of Android TV yearly alongside new cellphone and pill variations, or at the least shortly after. This sample first noticed disruption with Android TV 13—that model by no means reached client gadgets, present solely as a developer preview earlier than its codebase was in the end merged into Android TV 14. This time, we did not even have any public developer preview for Android TV 15, and Google hasn’t even publicly acknowledged its existence in any respect. With Google already waiting for announce what’s subsequent as a part of Android TV 16, it is protected to say that Google just isn’t doing Android 15 on your TV, Chromecast, or Streamer in any respect.

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If that is true, it isn’t precisely shocking. A couple of months in the past, Android Authority reported that Google wouldn’t be transferring ahead with Android TV 15 after privately asserting that call with companions. With Google releasing Android 16 sooner than typical this 12 months, killing Android TV 15 may’ve been one of many painful strikes Google needed to make to achieve that purpose. Or Google might need merely determined that Android TV was higher off on a bi-yearly schedule reasonably than on a yearly one. If the latter is correct, we’ll see the following main replace in 2027, with Android TV 18. One factor we want to bear in mind is that whereas yearly updates are cool, folks do not are likely to improve their TV that a lot usually—a TV can keep in a front room for as a lot as 10 years. Hell, I upgraded the TV in my front room after 12 years, and solely as a result of the older one was about to die.

We’ll have to attend and see what Android TV 16 has in retailer, however within the meantime, you will need to hold ready a bit longer.

Supply: Android Authority by way of AFTVnews