Huawei Ascend Mate 2 Android 5.0 Lollipop Update to Arrive in the First Half of 2015

After Huawei announced that the KitKat update will not be released for the Ascend Mate 2, many owners feared that their smartphone will be stuck on Jelly Bean forever. The China-based phone maker returns with great news for the Ascend Mate 2 owners: the handset will get updated to Android 5.0 Lollipop.

In other words, the Huawei Ascend Mate 2 will make the jump directly from Android 4.3 Jelly Bean to Android 5.0 Lollipop. As you may know already, Lollipop is the biggest update Android has received so far so the Ascend Mate 2 users will be able to enjoy tons of new features and improvements. Android 5.0 arrives with tweaked notifications bar and quick settings, multi-user support for phones, dynamic status bar, lock screen notifications, better battery stats, battery saver mode, Priority calls, Screen Pinning, Material Design, and lots more.

Huawei also revealed that Ascend Mate 2 Android 5.0 Lollipop update will be pushed to users in the first half of next year. As usual, the roll out will be made gradually, which means that some users might have to wait longer than others. After the Android 5.0 Lollipop update for Huwaei Ascend Mate 2 is issued you will receive a system update message in the notifications bar. Tap on it then follow the on-screen instructions. In case the system update notification failed to appear you would also want to perform a manual check.

I remind you that Huawei Ascend Mate 2 has a pretty decent hardware platform and the announcement that it won’t receive KitKat took many by surprise. The massive terminal was officially introduced to the public in January 2014 and released on the market later the same month.

Ascend Mate 2 boasts about a 6.1-inch IPS + LCD display with HD (720 x 1280) resolution, 241 ppi, and Gorilla Glass protection, while being powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 chipset with four Cortex A7 cores clocked at 1.6 GHz and an Adreno 305 GPU. The device also integrates 2 GB of RAM, 16 GB of internal storage, microSD slot (up to 64 GB supported), and a 4,050 mAh battery. It arrives with a 13 MP primary camera with autofocus LED flash and Full HD video recording, a 5 MP user-facing camera, and all the connectivity features worthy of a modern smartphone including LTE, Wi-Fi b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0 Low Energy, and microUSB 2.0.