While Sony smartphone owners who do not own the Xperia Z series handsets may be fretting as their devices will not benefit from the much-awaited Android 5.0 Lollipop update, Xperia Z family of phone owners can rejoice as the update is set to make its way any day.
Owners of the Xperia Z3, Xperia Z2 or Xperia Z3 Compact in the U.S. are set to get the Android 5.0 Lollipop update in the coming weeks, but within March this year.
The latest information is courtesy of Sony's R&D team in India, which let the cat out of the bag per justaboutphones.com. The publication has managed to lay its hands on a "software update release schedule" of Sony's India R&D team, which is dated March 8, 2015.
The screenshot of the schedule shows the Xperia Z3, Xperia Z3 Compact and Xperia Z2 listed with the update status of Android 5.0 Lollipop being shown as finalized. The OTA release section shows the software update status as "now uploading." Therefore, we can safely presume that the update is being uploaded to servers with the release imminent.