Android Oreo has been around for just a few weeks, and we already bear witness to
the OS reaching devices which would likely otherwise never see the update at all.
Before the software's release was halted, Samsung's new mobile
OS reached some devices in Germany, France, Belgium, Norway, Poland, and India, as well as Turkey and the United Arab Emirates.
Not exact matches
Although this is the first major
OS update for the Samsung Galaxy Tab A 10.1 (2016), the product is only 12 months old so hopefully, this won't be the last time a new version of Android will
reach the
device.
1) The
OS (Android ICS for example) know when the battery is fully charged and usually stops charging the
device once the 100 % charge has been
reached and it should for all practical reasons be safe to use the tablet then when still plugged in.
As you already know, the first Galaxy
device released was the S GT I9000 and it came with the old Eclair 2.1 Android and, if I remember correctly, after a few months the 2.2 Froyo update was launched as an official update and since then it
reached the Android 2.3.6 Gingerbread which is currently the latest
OS supported by the phone.
Archos is the first big brand to showcase a tablet running Android Ice Cream Sandwich, although there was a very cheap
device from China that ran the same
OS and
reached the web over the past days.
The BlackBerry
OS 10
device with a QWERTY keyboard will
reach its home country on the main three networks ahead of the US, somewhere that BlackBerry has yet to announce a release date for, with pre-orders starting up for a majority of carriers.
Looks like it would take some time for
devices based on
OS 10 to
reach such low price points and BlackBerry doesn't want to lose out on that price bracket either — which sort of explains this latest announcement.
The watches were universally panned, the
OS update took months to
reach first - generation
devices, and most manufacturers passed on releasing new 2.0 models.
The blog also states that Ambient
OS is able to create applications that extend beyond the
reach of a single
device.
As you already know, the first Galaxy
device released was the S GT I9000 and it came with the old Eclair 2.1 Android and, if I remember correctly, after a few months the 2.2 Froyo update was launched as an official update and since then it
reached the Android 2.3.6 Gingerbread which is currently the latest
OS supported by the phone.
However, these
devices aren't updated directly by Google, but by OEMs, meaning that new Android
OS versions first
reach Nexus
devices, and only later Google Play Edition
devices.
Similarly, it will take Android
O months before
reaching to all supported
devices.
It arrived after the channel was updated to Google Chrome 61, so it would still take time until the feature
reaches Android
O - running
devices, as pointed out by 1redDrop.
If you are familiar with Oxygen
OS, you will know that you have the option to choose between on - screen navigation keys or capacitive keys, and that feature returns with the OnePlus X. However, it is worth mentioning that, given the relatively thin bottom chin of the
device, the capacitive keys do fall quite close to the bottom edge of the front, and it does seem like you have to
reach really far down to get to these buttons.
As mentioned earlier, Android OEMs and carriers have been blamed for the slow rollout of Android 6.0 Marshmallow, something that has seen the
OS reach only 7.5 % of all Android - powered
devices.
Windows 10 Mobile will
reach the existing
devices in December, while new models with the
OS pre-installed will be on the market in November.
Android users frustrated with the slow speed of
OS updates
reaching their
devices may finally get some relief, according to Richard Windsor, an London - based technology analyst.