ile many Android phones are still waiting for the first taste of Nougat, is pushing ahead on the latest version of Android for its Nexus xel devices. Or rather, most of them.
Available for users enrolled in the Android Beta ogram, the next release is, according to ’s blog description, “an incremental maintenance release focused on refinements, so it includes a number of bug fixes optimizations, along with a small number of enhancements for carriers users.” That means you probably won’t see any differences in your day-to-day use, unless you were consistently bothered by a particular bug.
However, if you happen to own a Nexus 6 or Nexus 9, you’re out of luck. Not only is the device unable to install the beta, says that the general release of 7.1.2, which is expected to l in a couple of months, will be available for the xel, xel X Nexus 5X, Nexus 6 Nexus ayer, xel C devices. Notably excluded from that list are 2014’s Nexus 6 Nexus 9, 2014 devices released by Motorola HTC, respectively, that were on board with the previous Nougat updates. ile doesn’t specifically say they will be excluded from future releases, it would appear that they have reached the end of the line for updates.
The 7.1.2 public beta is available through the Android Beta ogram, which you can sign up for at roid.com/beta with a account one of the supported phones. If you’ve already enrolled in the program, your phone will receive the update within the next few days, according to . To check to see if an update is available, you can go to the About tab in Settings tap on System updates.
at this means for my Nexus 6 or 9: ile it may be sooner than expected, it was pretty inevitable that would stop supporting the 2014 Nexus 6 Nexus 9 devices sometime this year. en announced its updated security efforts for Nexus devices ahead of Marshmallow’s release in 2015, it vowed they would “continue to receive major updates for at least two years.” More importantly, it will continue to deliver security patches “for the longer of three years from initial availability or 18 months from last sale of the device via the Store.” So you don’t need to toss them in the recycle bin just yet.
