Last Wednesday, Google launched its new beta testing program to Android N publishing the factory images of the version for several of its terminals, and also starting the possibility of receiving all the previews of the series through OTA updates. When it came to taking a look at the list of compatible models, however, many were a little disappointed: two great classics like the Nexus 7 2013 and Nexus 5 this course could no longer be supported.
After a year 2012, in which Google launched its first tablet (N7, manufactured by Asus) and a high-end smartphone (N4, manufactured by LG) at ridiculous prices at that time and in which stock problems weighed down the impact of both products on the market, 2013 was a crowning year. The new one Nexus 7 and Nexus 5 they are, with total security, the models most loved by the firm's fans. With them, the search engine company reached a level of repercussion in terms of hardware at the level of few, something that in part remains even after giving a turn to its product philosophy in 2014.
Two devices with real validity ...
As we say, the fact that the Nexus 7 and 5 were not included between the terminals in which Android N can already be installed, caused a small general disappointment in many media, aware of the importance of both teams. Personally, I know some fellow writers of specialized webs who remain faithful to their Nexus 5 and despite trying other much later high-end equipment, they maintain that there is not a big difference with them, since this device marked a qualitative leap in which we continue to be installed.
Would they be able to measure up?
The good news about it is that, according to the boys of Android Authority, there is evidence that Google is testing Android N on both the Nexus 7 from 2013 and the Nexus 5. The tests may be aimed only at measuring the performance of the system on somewhat older hardware, however there are precedents that invite optimism. The Nexus 4, for example, was not among the models in which it could be tested Lollipop and finally if you updated to that version.
The point is that the Nexus 4 with official Google updates lost a lot of performance, as I related in this post, despite the fact that successive versions of Android try to release ballast to work on models as old as possible. We are sure that the Nexus 5 with a Snadragon 800 and 2GB of RAM could easily move what is proposed. The Nexus 7 in 2013, on the other hand, did not have the most advanced SoC of the moment (it had an SD S4 Pro) and could suffer something more.
Be that as it may, we will always have the trump card of CyanogenMod.