{Latest} What’s New in Android 5.1 OS – Top 10 things which has changed!

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While Lollipop 5.0 was an impressive piece of design when it comes to Android, on the other side Android 5.0 also bought in many numerous number of bugs. Here comes the Android 5.1 which comes with the many new enhancements along with the bug fixes. So let’s check out the 10 most impactful things which comes in this update. While as of now this update will be soon pushed to the Nexus devices to start off with very soon, this update will also be extended to the android wear devices as well.

Addition of Silent Mode,

System stability improvements,

Improved RAM Management,

Fixes Sudden App Crashes,

Improved Battery Management,

Fixes related to wireless connections fixed,

Problems related to notifications are fixed,

Sound problems for certain devices are fixed,

Issues related to “Okay Google”

Issues related to WiFi

There are some devices available in the market which are costing around $100 and has got an impressive stats. The performance reports of luag seem to be corroborated by a rather impressive AnTuTu score of 18,398. The device which we are talking of is Mito A10 Impact which comes with the specs like 4.5″ 480p display with 1GB of RAM and a Cortex A7 Quad Core processor by Mediatek, clocked at 1.3GHz. On this device, the OS is Android 5.1 and the performance of the OS was no less than impressive.

There will be no major UI improvements when it comes to the design in Android 5.1 and will soon be pushed to the devices of Nexus to start off with. Overall benchmark reports are giving a strong indication that this update will also be pushed to the lower budget devices as well sooner than later. There’s no report of a fix for the memory leak yet, but given that this information was gathered and based on less than a single day worth of use, this is understandable. The kernel version of 5.1 which was being tested by various leads are;

Kernel version:

3.10.57+ android-build@vpbs1.mtv.corp.google.com

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While the uptake of Android 5.0 was very slow, Google will be looking forward to speed up the adoption of Android 5.1 faster as many devices which are on Lollipop 5.0 are facing issues of huge instability. It’s been also mentioned that Android One devices will be getting the 5.1 OS straight off the box which promises to offer 2x better performance.

Do let us know your thoughts on Android 5.1 if any in the comments section below.