Google has always impressed us with its range of Android development, whether it was the introduction of Android 4.0 in 2011 through Galaxy Nexus or the release of Android 4.1 Jelly Bean via Nexus 7. This time also Google has embarked on its mission of innovation to introduce Android 5.0 Key Lime Pie.
About Android 5.0 Key Lime Pie
Android 5.0 is the latest version in the series of Android operating systems, which will be introduced later this year. Before its arrival, Android 4.3 Jelly Bean was proclaimed in the month of July this year. However, a benchmark was also noticed via Sony running Android 5.0 in November, 2012 and since then, the operating system has been postponed many times.
Android 5.0 Features
The operating system is expected to be released in late October or early November this year, but still there are many speculations regarding the features.
These are a few expected features of Key Lime Pie:
1. Performance Profiles
Android 5.0 makes managing your phones at night easy, for example, switching on the airplay mode, lessening the brightness, and lowering down the volume in night time. Also, additional features like reading mode for complete reading pleasure and a gaming mode for optimum power delivery are believed to be present. In addition, power strip style widget is present for phone performance to easily access these functions. 
2. Line-Drawing Keyboard Options
This feature is also a very important one allowing you to get your words onto a telephone. The keyboards now will have alternate text entry options integrated in them. This is a swype style of text entry feature, which allows you to get more creative with text.
3. Multiple selection in contacts
In your current Android versions, whenever you want to send a text or an e-mail to multiple people, you have to select one contact and then add others after that. This tedious process is eased in Android 5.0 Key Lime Pie. With the multiple-select feature, you can create a sender’s list by scrolling through the contacts in the list.
4. An app for video chat
Google has not included any sort of video chat app in its releases of Android versions. This has been a drawback on Google’s part because they have provided a front-facing camera in Nexus 7 without an app for video chatting. You have to install external apps such as, Skype for these purposes. Now, the problem is fixed through a pre-installed app for live video chatting.
5. No prompt for updates
Very often, we don’t like to see prompts for updating apps, the reason being, we are happy to use the current version of a specific app. There are always manual updating options available in Android for updating apps, so why to get intruded by a prompt over and over. Key Lime Pie has a ‘Never Update’ option for doing away with these prompts.
Below is an example of beta Times app, which gives us a free access for a year, so we definitely might want to stick with it and not update it.
6. Cross Device SMS sync
If you readily change your SIM, there are chances that you might lose your text messages at some point. Android 5.0 comes with a solution of saving the messages in phone rather than SIM and then you can back it up to the SIM or the SD card.
Android 5.0 Release Date
The release date of Key Lime Pie is expected to be October 2013 and the operating system is reported to get accessible by many devices such as, Google Nexus 5, LG Nexus 4, ASUS Nexus 7, Nexus 7 2, and Nexus 10 2. HTC J and HTC T6 can also be in this list.
Bottom Line
The specifications and features can really prove gigantic and beneficial from Android 5.0, so we must keep ourselves alert to get more updates about the operating system.