Google recently updated its
Android market share charts, and Nougat (both 7.0 and 7.1) is sitting pretty at
0.7 percent
of the total active Android installed base. Considering
Nougat launched on August 22, 2016, a less-than-one-percent update
rate is pretty pathetic. We should see that number jump up a bit soon
because after almost five months, Samsung is finally ready to join the
ranks of Nougat-equipped devices. Today Nougat starts shipping out to
the legions of
Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge owners.
The update, which was first spotted by
SamMobile,
seems to be arriving first on unlocked European models of the device.
Samsung doesn't sell an unlocked Galaxy S7 in the US—the phones are sold
exclusively through carriers—so US customers have to wait for
their carriers to get their acts together.
Nougat brings
a ton of new features to Android,
like a split-screen mode, a revamped notification panel,
user-adjustable UI scale, better power saving, new emojis, and many
other changes. Samsung is, of course, going to apply its Touchwiz skin
to the OS, so not every feature is guaranteed to make it.
With the unlocked model getting the update, we
should see US carriers slowly start to announce availability within the
next month. With Android 7.0 finally out the door, Samsung should
probably get to work on porting over the current version of Android:
7.1.1.
Listing image by Ron Amadeo
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