Betas are over: Android 7.0 Nougat It is already stable since Google began to distribute the update on Nexus and Pixel C devices. This morning, the new version has reached the Nexus 9 that we had enrolled in the beta program for Android developers, with which, we can give you a first brushstrokes of what will be the successor of Marshmallow, a bet of those of Mountain View for the perfected continuity.
First of all, if you want, you are the owners of one of the Nexus compatible with nougat, you just have to register it in the beta program so that the Android 7.0 OTA it reaches you immediately. We have read on the other hand, in PocketNow that said program will not stop sending new versions from time to time, so maybe it would be good to remove the terminal from said program once you have installed the new version if you want to stay in a stable system. Or at least, letting a few days go by.
First impression: everything goes much faster
It is perhaps a bit the result of circumstances, but I have become accustomed to the Nexus 9 being jerkily. First, I have never gotten the Tegra processors to work for me like the Snapdragon. After a while the lag and on the tablet of Google and HTC this was very obvious. Logically, when installing an Android system in beta, things got much worse. I ended up using the device just to test the news that was coming and much less in my daily use, in which I barely ran a game or cast Netflix to the Chromecast from time to time.
When testing Android Nougat on the device this morning the first thing that surprised me is how well everything is going. The Nexus 9 has regained fluidity early days and I can jump from one task to another, move through menus, and see their transitions to higher speed I'm used to even on the Nexus 6P. I definitely think I'm going to use this tablet a lot more from now on.
Android Nougat looks slightly different
It is certainly not the most important change. In fact, if you have followed the beta program, you will discover little or no news in stable version. The quick settings menu has changed slightly (by the way, yes there is night mode). So have notifications that are now grouped more intelligently, and can be dismissed or flagged to "read later." Some screen of the General settings They have also undergone modifications, for example, the battery section gains a new interface, with larger icons and each and every one of the sections shows some type of previous information.
On the other hand, if we drag from the bottom area, there is no pop-up menu. Although we could see some progress of this development from Google, it seems that that remains for future updates.
Conclusions and expectations for future deliveries
One of the issues that interests me the most in Android 7.0 is the new aggressive Doze profile. For now I have not been able to be aware of the extent to which the energy saving reaches when we are not using the tablet but, presumably, this new configuration is going to achieve great advances, detecting when it is stored or on a table to minimize your activity. It remains to be seen if that does not cause dysfunctions of some kind or side effects.
It is somewhat strange that a new version of the Android system does not arrive with a Nexus device. In fact, the LG V20 It will be the first terminal to be launched with Nougat out of the box. The feeling we have is that this stable version is a simple base, a continuation of the betas with everything working perfectly, but what really hides the treasure of the new one is what will come in the new generation Nexus terminals. Much has been said about Touch 3D native to Android or even the pop-up menu at the bottom; and it gives us the impression that both will arrive before Android O.