But Google favors a staggered rollout for its updates so it can find and squash early bugs, and it may be several days before your phone or tablet actually offers to download and install the update for you. This means that users no longer need to restart their phones every time they receive an update on their Nexus devices.
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Android 7.0 is an important upgrade to Google’s mobile OS with multi-window support mode for most apps, redesigned notifications, and many essential performance optimizations.
Surprisingly though, the new Android Nougat OS announcement does not come with any new hardware as Google has traditionally done in recent years.
Let’s start with this Reddit post, in which an app developer – who has chosen to remain anonymous, for whatever reason – notes that 115 of their users are already on Android 7.1. And Android device makers. As for when Android 7.1 is expected? And it’s still to be seen if Android 7.1 is going to bring many features at all to the Nexus devices that are now receiving Android 7.0 over-the-air.
So maintenance releases in the Nougat era are partly about codifying Android’s smaller updates, and partly about giving developers more of a chance to prepare for these changes before they land.
Google released the final version of Android 7.0 Nougat yesterday after months of public beta testing, and people with supported Nexus phones and tablets should all be able to download it soon. As for when the latest crop of smartphones is set to get Nougat, the bad news is that info is scarce for the time being.
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Unfortunately, Nexus 5 and Nexus 7 will not get the update. Still, we will continue to update this article as we learn more. So, if you have a Samsung smartphone, odds are good that you’ll still be running an older Android version when you ring in the new year.
