Winners and losers of Android Nougat – Your smartphone does it will be compatible? – ZDNet France

The time when the Nexus 5 and Nexus 7 2013 received the latest versions of Android is officially gone with Android 7.0 Nougat.

During the next few weeks, Android 7.0 will be deployed on Nexus 6, Nexus 5X, 6P Nexus, Nexus 9, Nexus Player Pixel C, and General Mobile 4G (Android One). Nexus 5 manufactured by LG, launched in late 2013 Android 5.0 Lollipop, and the Nexus 7 from Asus (Android 4.3 Jelly Bean) will remain confined for good on Android 6.0 Marshmallow.

Two years betting update for Nexus insured

HTC also announced which of its terminals could be running Nougat, targeting 10 HTC, HTC One and HTC One M9 A9. Additional models will be compatible. The manufacturer says that later this year, once Google has provided Android N to industry.

Sony has also released its list of compatible terminals Nougat. Without communicating update schedule, the manufacturer announced that the Xperia Z3 + / Z4 terminals, Tablet Z4, Z5, Z5 Compact, Z5 Premium, X, XA, XA and X Ultra Performance would be eligible. This is however not the case Z3.

Compatibility or not, this choice is the decision of each manufacturer. For its part, Google ensures updates of Android on Nexus devices for at least two years from the date of the sale on the Google Store. Nexus 5, the end of support so intervened in October 2015 and in July 2015 for the Nexus 7. Nexus 6 and 9 reach the end support next October.

But if the Nexus 5 and 7 no longer benefit from functional changes, they continue however to be eligible for the monthly security patches Google. This support is valid for three years from the first availability, or 18 months after the end of commercialization on the Google Store. The Nexus 5 will receive security patches until at least October.

A maintenance release of Android Nougat in the fall

If Nexus owners 5 and 7 still would like to migrate Nougat, one option is to install a firmware once they available or in the coming months. Another alternative: waiting for the next Nexus, which could be produced by HTC or LG V20 expected early September

The Nexus owners as carrier wishing to migrate earlier on Android Nougat. can register their devices on Android Beta program from Google. Participants already received notifications for updates “over-the-air.”

Monday, August 22, Google also said that the pre-release Nougat program would be maintained after the launch of the public version of the OS. A first maintenance update will be deployed and through this program. Google suggests that from now he could push updates on a quarterly basis for units participating in the Beta.

“We spend Nougat in a new regular maintenance schedule to coming quarters. in fact, we have already started working on the first maintenance release of Nougat, which will bring improvements and polish, and we intend to deliver it this fall as a developer preview release “Google wrote.