Lollipop (unofficially) comes to the Note Edge. Photo: Samsung

Who knows when Samsung will finally release its Lollipop updates for the Galaxy Note 4 and Galaxy Note Edge. But if you own the latter and you’ve had enough of waiting, you can now take matter into your own hands.

A pre-release Android 5.0.1 Lollipop build — made by Samsung with its own TouchWiz user interface — is now available for manual flashing on select Galaxy Note Edge variants.

Samsung’s Lollipop software expands its reach to Verizon. Photo: Samsung

If you’re a Galaxy S5 user on Verizon, your long-awaited Android 5.0 Lollipop update is incoming. The carrier today confirmed its immediate rollout, which brings new features and significant improvements to performance and battery life.

Apps like S Health could be optional with the Galaxy S6. Photo: Killian Bell/Cult of Android

Samsung knows its users hate TouchWiz, and it’s finally going to do something about it with the Galaxy S6.

Not only will the company’s next-generation user interface be streamlined for performance, but many of its own apps — which are baked in as standard with current devices — are going to become optional downloads you don’t have to install if you don’t want to.

CyanogenMod. Photo: Killian Bell/Cult of Android

CyanogenMod, one of the biggest and best custom ROMs, now officially supports Samsung Galaxy Note 4 handsets connected to Sprint and T-Mobile. The latest builds will let you ditch TouchWiz for a purer, Lollipop-based Android experience.

The Galaxy S6 could be the world’s first smartphone with 4GB of RAM. Photo: Killian Bell/Cult of Android

Samsung is looking to deliver a more fluid software experience with the Galaxy S6 having finally listened to our complaints about TouchWiz. One of the ways in which it will do that is with a more streamlined operating system, but sources say the South Korean company is also going to max out the handset’s specifications as well just to be sure.