[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo Q&A, Help & Troublesh] ChazzMatt:
I agree with the Nexus 9 frustration. I bought one for my wife -- with keyboard. She doesn't care it doesn't have 5.1, but knowing what Nexus is supposed to represent and how much money I paid for it, it does bother me. (We also own a gen1 Nexus 7, and previously owned two gen3 Nexus phones and two gen5 Nexus phones. Still have one of the Nexus 5.)

The Nexus 9 tablet was in development for a LONG time even before being released. Was originally going to be released July 2014 with KitKat 4.4.4, to replace the gen2 Nexus 7 but Google delayed it to November to launch with Lollipop.

So, the Nexus 9 LAUNCHED with Lollipop 5.0 as the native OS, and now it can't be easily upgraded to Lollipop 5.1? What the heck, Google? It's one thing if the inexpensive gen1 Nexus 7 can't be upgraded (but it can), but your MOST RECENT, MOST EXPENSIVE TABLET has uprade issues? What crap did HTC sell you? What did you do with all the money we paid you?

I'm sure you know there are a lot more similarities in the Motorola Quark phones to the Motorola Nexus 6 (same almost everything), than other OLDER Motorola phones which already have 5.1 -- like the Moto G GPE and the gen2 Moto X . Nexus 6 and Quark phones have the same Snapdragon 805 chipset! Verizon even sells the Motorola Nexus 6, and

it came with 5.1 when launched on Verizon.

Maybe the Motorola Quark team should ask the Motorola Nexus 6 team how to put 5.1 on this device? :)

But common sense says they know, that there's a holdup somewhere else...

In Brazil, Motorola has even started rolling out

5.1 for the gen1 Moto X

. You know the one that had the problematic chipset? :rolleyes: Here's the

5.1 changelog for the gen1 Moto X

..

Well, historically, Verizon is the last for Android OS upgrades. There was even a chart earlier in the thread I posted, plus articles for various phone models that received Verizon updates AFTER everyone else. So, there's one way to "prove". It's like someone who has cheated on their spouse and been caught before, promised they would never do it again. Now suddenly they don't come home one night... Yeah, there may be some other explanation for their disappearance -- car accident? been arrested? But what are the odds it's the same thing yet again. :rolleyes: (I have a friend with lots of drama in their life.)

Due to Verizon's past behavior, they are always going to be the suspect in late OS upgrades.

As for how Motorola failed to market their Quark phones, they deserve condemnation. They should have released this phone in every market. Motorola made a phone which is as good as or better than the Nexus 6 and Galaxy Note 4, iPhone 6 -- and did nothing to promote it. They released this device to one major carrier in the U.S., secretly released it to smaller regional carriers, released it to Latin America and finally after several months to India. They should have dropped it from airplanes all over the world.

Verizon NEVER had any exclusivity over the device, only the name. There's even a U.S. Moto Maxx XT1250 being sold by regional CDMA/LTE carriers with the same FCC ID as the XT1254 Droid Turbo -- which proves it's the SAME device, with the same bands and everything. So, Motorola should have run with this phone, and promoted it like Samsung and LG did with their 2015 flagship phones. Samsung heavily promotes BOTH their Galaxy S and Note models each year. Motorola should have done this with the late 2014 Quark phone.