The US government has entered an agreement to make use of Google’s mobile operating system, the Android, for future secure phones this week and it has promised that updates will be released within 2 weeks time. This is a significant improvement because every time Google comes up with new updates on the most basic structure of Android, it may take up to six months before new legacy devices are updated to the current speed. The shortest time of the installation of the updates is observed to be several weeks so far. However, the information-security director working at George Mason University, Angelos Stavrou, who is also part of the US project, has said that his team can get this done in just 14 days maximum.
This vast improvement would certainly bewilder most of the Android users, but given that it is the US government itself that has released this unexpected statement, we can expect a hard-working research team behind this plan. There must also be contribution from the manufacturers and the carriers themselves, who are responsible to formulate the new software in the new units one by one once the latest version of the Android operating system is released. Then they have to work with the carriers to blanket all the softwares again with their own unique applications. It is usually this process that needs to take weeks or even months.
The new thing is that the government will only choose specific devices to work with, and they will be handing out the software as well together with the carriers. This process will take a shorter time because the US government can get around the red tapes or bureaucracy that is the main cause of the long delay. Nevertheless, we can expect a significant improvement in the coming weeks for Android devices.
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