Motorola Moto X Play Android 6.0.1 update with new emojis starts rolling out in India


Motorola Moto X Play Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow

Motorola has started rolling out Android 6.0.1 update for the Moto X Play smartphone in India. Motorola rolled out the Android 6.0 (Marshmallow) update for the smartphone earlier this year. In addition to adding support for new emojis, including volleyball, taco, middle finger, champagne bottle, as well as new faces for sickness, thinking, and rolling eyes, this update also brings back camera shutter tone switch that lets you  turn off and on the sound of the camera shutter and also lets you launch the camera by double-pressing the power button.

Motorola Moto X Play Android 6.0.1 changelog

  • Android Security: Includes the updates of Android security patches until 1st March 2016.
  • Unicode 8.0 Emoji: support Every emoji up to the Unicode 8.0 update can now be displayed on your phone. There are over 100 new emojis, plus many updated.
  • Power button to launch camera: You can now launch the camera by double-pressing the power button.
  • Camera shutter tone switch: The camera shutter tone switch is back. Now you can turn off and on the sound of the camera shutter at any time.
  • Stability Improvements Includes changes that fix bugs and improve the stability of your phone.

The Android 6.0.1 (Marshmallow) update v24.61.52 for the Moto X Play is 387.4MB in size and also includes the Android security update for March, 2016. Have you received the update? How is your experience after the update. Let us know in the comments below.

Thanks Gurmat Dhillon for the tip and images!


Author: Srivatsan Sridhar

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