Android 14 has been within the beta part for a lot of months now, and Google initially made us imagine that the ultimate, secure launch would come out sooner or later in August, identical to it did final 12 months with Android 13. Not so, nonetheless, as some extra betas have been added to the discharge cycle, at which level just about everybody within the tech world assumed the secure model could be coming in September.
Nicely, about that. Yesterday was Labor Day within the US, and meaning a Google software program replace needs to be popping out right now (these are typically going out on the primary Monday of every month except that is a US vacation, like yesterday, through which case they get delayed to the following day). Nevertheless it will not be Android 14. Rumor now has it that Google has delayed the secure launch to October, on the final minute.
Listening to now that the supply code launch of Android 14 has been delayed to subsequent month.
This resolution appears to have been made very late, as even OEMs have been anticipating that the discharge could be right now.
OEMs at the moment are being instructed that vulnerabilities detailed within the Android 14… pic.twitter.com/I137j0F0x5
— Mishaal Rahman (@MishaalRahman) September 5, 2023
As you’ll be able to see, it’s now allegedly scheduled to return out on October 4, which by the way is the date of Google’s subsequent massive {hardware} announcement, when it is anticipated to totally unveil the Pixel 8, Pixel 8 Professional, and Pixel Watch 2. That may create a reasonably unprecedented scenario – new Google releases are often launched not less than a month, if not two, forward of the brand new {hardware}.
It is solely unclear why this delay occurred, however issues have not been going nicely within the Android 14 world for a number of weeks now – we suspected one thing was off when Google rapidly launched a not-before-anticipated fifth beta. Now it seems to be like regardless of the underlying drawback is, it hasn’t been totally addressed (or mounted) but.
Apparently, even Google’s cellphone making companions thought the discharge would come right now, therefore why a few of them – pondering of OnePlus right here – even introduced their very own Android 14 secure releases coming later this month. We aren’t certain what’s going to occur to that promise now.
After all, that is all a rumor, and Google nonetheless has time to show it fallacious by releasing Android 14 earlier than October 4. Let’s examine what occurs.
