Samsung Galaxy Note 3 Official Android 5.0 Lollipop Update is Rolling-out [Video]

Samsung has started Rolling-out the Official Android 5.0 Lollipop update OTA (Over-the-air) to the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 (SM-N900). Starting with Russia first, Other countries will get their localized versions of same update starting from next week, region by region.

Looks like the Note 3 is beating the Galaxy Note 4 in the race to get Lollipop. The update brings the modern Material design to the 2013 phablet. Samsung's TouchWiz overlay on the Note 3 was criticized for not being optimized for the large screen, and that is now going to change.

Other improvements, inherent to the new OS version are increased battery life and a general performance boost. The Android 5.0 update is said to carry some of the latest Galaxy Note 4 features over to its older brother, better multi-window support being one example.

Galaxy Note 3 Lollipop Firmware details:

• Model: SM-N900

• Model name: GALAXY Note 3

• Country: Russia

• Version: Android 5.0

• Changelist: 3779962

• Build date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 16:11:27 +0000

• Product Code: SER

• PDA: N900XXUEBOA6

• CSC: N900SEREBOA6

• MODEM: N900XXUEBNL6

Update Hands-on [video]