HTC announces Lollipop release for Desire Eye and Desire 816

Just few days ago the HTC Desire Eye started getting Android Lollipop treatment in its homeland - Taiwan. Today HTC UK announced the official rollout of Android 5 Lollipop firmware update for two Desire smartphones - Desire Eye and Desire 816.

The update includes all new Lollipop features and performance improvements, but lacks the latest Sense 7 UI. It bumps the Sense version to Sense 6.5, but the 7.0 launcher will roll out on a later date, probably with Android 5.1.

HTC has been steadily bringing Lollipop to its popular smartphones. You can already find it on HTC One and HTC One M8, it even kicked off on HTC Desire E8 and Butterfly S a few days ago.

According to the previously leaked scheduled we should see HTC One Max, One mini 2 and One mini, among others, updated throughout the next couple of months.

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HTC Desire EYE is getting Android 5.0.2 Lollipop update

HTC has started rolling out the new Android 5.0.2 Lollipop update for its selfie smartphone - Desire EYE. To our surprise, the Taiwanese company has started seeding this Lollipop update first in its home country - Taiwan.

The new Lollipop system update bears 2.19.709.1 build version and weighs 1008.9MB heavy. The update brings all great features of the Lollipop version but surprisingly doesn’t bump the Sense UI to Sense 7 version. Instead, the update has Sense 6.55 on board.

LlabTooFer, a ROM developer, estimated that the Sense 7.0 UI will arrive with Android 5.1 update and will be made available for several existing models.

We look forward to the improvements especially in the camera section. Do let us know if you find something new and check our Desire EYE review to figure out the difference.

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