Samsung never had a very good track of pushing updates to mid-range and budget segment phones and to further dent that, the company might have delayed the Oreo update roadmap. Samsung’s new roadmap from the member’s app says the update for many of the devices is expected to come out in early 2019. Continue reading “Samsung’s new roadmap hints at delay in Oreo update for mid-range Galaxy phones till 2019”
Google rolled out the Android P Beta 3 (DP4) update to Pixel series smartphones yesterday. Now Essential Phone is getting another update to Android P Beta with latest Google Code Drop, improvements to Android Auto, and July security patch. Essential rolled out Android P beta last month along with bug fixes & June security patch. Continue reading “Essential Phone Android P latest build with July security patch, improvements to Android Auto starts rolling out”
Samsung rolled out the Android Oreo update to Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge back in May and immediately after the roll out, it has halted the update citing various bugs and it resumed it again after few days . It took its sweet amount of time to roll out the update to other markets and now the company is pushing out the update in India finally. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge Android 8.0 Oreo update starts rolling out in India”
Samsung recently canceled the Galaxy S8 and S8+ Android 8.0 Oreo update merely a week after the update was released citing the unexpected reboot issue. Now it looks like the update has finally resumed in Germany and just a matter of few days before it widely becomes available in the markets where the update had previously been released. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy S8 Android Oreo update resumes with February security patch and bug fixes”
While Huawei is busying pushing Oreo update to its Huawei branded phones and flagships, the company is yet to start rolling out Oreo for Honor phones. The company recently clarified that Honor 8 won’t be getting the Oreo update because of software limitations. Continue reading “Honor 8 to get EMUI 8.0 features ported, more devices to get EMUI 8.0 update confirmed”
Huawei has announced Android 8.0 Oreo beta program for P10 and P10 Plus as the company’s Romania Facebook page has put out post seeking testers for the Oreo update. The company has already rolled out the update for Mate 9 Pro, P10 and P10 Plus in China and now its turn for the international variants. Continue reading “Huawei P10 and P10 Plus Android Oreo beta update starts rolling out”
Pete Lau, the founder and CEO of OnePlus had confirmed that the OnePlus 3T along with 3 would get the latest Android Oreo update. The company has kept its promise and the consumers of the these smartphones are now getting the newest software patch. Mind you, it’s an open beta with some known issues. Continue reading “OnePlus 3 and 3T get the much awaited Android 8.0 Oreo update in open beta”
Google is out with Android distribution numbers for the month of October. Android Oreo that was released little over a month ago, has entered the charts this month and is now present on 0.2% of all the devices. Google started rolling out Android 8.0 Nougat to Nexus and Pixel devices in late August.
Continue reading “Android Oreo is now on 0.2% of devices, Nougat adoption hits 17.8%”
In an attempt to avoid the recent and infamous reboot loops in Android devices, the company has implemented a feature called ‘Rescue Party’ in Android 8.0. Continue reading “Android Oreo’s Rescue Party feature might save devices from bootlooping”
As promised, the search engine giant Google yesterday announced the name of its next Android iteration dubbed as Android Oreo, coinciding with the Solar Eclipse. Google unveiled Android Oreo with a minute long video showcasing its features including stronger, safer, speedier abilities. Continue reading “How to install Android Oreo on Google Pixel, Nexus phones”
After a lot of speculations and rumors, Google yesterday finally announced the name of the Android’s next iteration as “Oreo”. The successor of Android Nougat got some pretty cool features in its sleeves featuring different looks to under-the-hood improvements. Continue reading “Top 5 Android Oreo features you should know”
