But it turns out that such magic requires dual partitions, which is quite a technical feat to implement on the current generation of smartphones. In the case of the latest Nexus devices, representatives told the crowd at the Android team’s office hours event at I/O that the background update feature won’t be available for current-generation Nexus devices. That means it’s likely that all currently-available Android phones tablets won’t get the feature. ed, it’s technically possible to implement, but according to the Android team it would require hooking up a phone to a computer partitioning drives. Someone with the technical knowledge out there may make this happen, but that’s above the paygrade of most smartphone users. y this matters: This throws some cold water on one of the much-ballyhooed features announced at I/O. On the one h, if you’re the type to keep tabs on the latest versions of Android this won’t be a major deal breaker, but this new updates scheme is an important tool against fragmentation as it would nudge more phones tablets onto the latest Android builds.
