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02 September 2019

This leak confirms the OS formerly known as Android Q may be out tomorrow September the 3rd


Are you ready for Android 10? Well specifically speaking not you Samsung user, or you Sony, LG, or HTC user. Maybe you the Nokia One or Oneplus user in a month or two. Nope, definitely not you Huawei. Okay let’s try this again…are all 50 of you Pixel users around the world Ready. For. Android. 10!!!

A little over a week ago, chats between Google support reps surfaced telling us to expect the official release of Android 10 to Pixels to happen September 3rd. Then around Friday last week, someone slacked off on duty over at Canadian carrier Rogers and inadvertently confirmed the roll out date of Android Q10
For a short while, Rogers' public OS upgrade schedule included the lines you can see screenshot below.


Apparently the carrier was not up to speed on the name change or simply forgot to fill in on the update of Android 10 being the new moniker of the upcoming Android Q. Realizing the mistake of making such information public without Google having announced anything of the sort, Rogers quickly removed all references to Google Pixels from its OS upgrade schedule page, which confirms this was a hasty move to fix a slip-up because it makes no sense for the Pixels not to be on that list at all.

 The date seems plausible enough, given that last year the company released Android 9 Pie on the same day it would've normally outed the monthly security patches. And that day in September of 2019 is the 3rd, as the 2nd is Labor Day in the US. Google outs updates on the first Monday of every month, unless that is a holiday in the States, in which case the release happens the day after. 

After originally spotted on Friday, Rogers removed the Android 10 launch date from its support site. Now, another Canadian carrier Telus also pegs tomorrow for “Android Q + security update” on all eight Pixel phones.




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