Nougat edition of Android rolled out – digi.no

Google announced this evening that the company has started to roll out Android 7.0 Nougat to newer Nexus devices and certain devices. In all, this device Nexus 6, Nexus 5X, Nexus 6P, Nexus 9, Nexus Player, Pixel C and General Mobile 4G (Android One).

But although the rollout has started now, does not mean that everyone gets the same time. It is offered in the pools and some mobile operators often contributes to further delays.

The first new smart phone which is equipped with Nougat, is LG V20 model, which will begin shipping by the end of September.

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No surprises

The news of Android 7.0 Nougat has been referred to many times so they should be familiar to most. This includes the ability to run applications side by side, better battery saving functionality, more personalization, smarter operating system update and improve security, to name a few of the highlights.

How fast Android 7.0 will come to other than Nexus devices, depends on several factors. Some vendors are significantly faster than others offering new Android versions of existing models.

Slow rollout to other devices.

Analysis Company Apteligent came in July with a kind of overview, based proportion of web traffic generated by devices with Android 6.0, by various suppliers.

the figures for the US show that the first units were upgraded around the turn of 2015/2016, about three months after Marshmallow was ready on October 5th. Then you have disregarded Nexus devices, which of course was upgraded much earlier.

It was usual Motorola devices first got Marshmallow, followed by devices from LG and HTC. Android 6.0 devices from Sony and Samsung first began to make itself felt in March, ie five months after Marshmallow was released. This despite the fact that also the operating system was beta tested completely open, allowing device vendors should have the opportunity to test the software along and come with updates earlier than before.

It is far from any device that is being upgraded. The most expensive and latest devices get new Android version first, while cheap or older models rarely get upgraded.