Android 7 Nougat will arrive next month but no Nougat for Nexus 5

Naqeeb Ul Rehman
August 1, 2016
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The wait is now over for the official release of delightful, crusty Android 7.0 Nougat and Google is going to release this in the month of August. As Google released “Final developer preview of Nougat” in start of July so its confirmed now that Google is going to launch Nougat in August.

But a sad news for the users of Nexus 5 (released in early 2013) will not receive Nougat. As per the reports of “Google’s Nexus support pages”, the Nexus 5 lost its guaranteed android update rights after October 2015.

For now, Nougat will be supported on following google hardware, Nexus 6, Nexus 9, Nexus 5X, Nexus 6P, Nexus Player and Pixel C. These all devices will be the first to receive Nougat updates.

Nougat 7 will be an amazing operating system for Android smartphones and will capture the attention of users soon with its sweet features.

Reports showing that Nougat 7 will compete Android lollipop which has a market share of 35% as well as Kitkat which has a market share of 30% due to its below interesting features.