Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Roger Mills Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android Subject: Re: Nexus 7 not going to receive Nougat update. Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2016 09:45:09 +0100 Organization: Association of Revolting Peasants Lines: 28 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net 2CP6HIoDscgT3dbsog2yLA6HeJ/MFvDH7Evz2iC/0pe+EjccGx Cancel-Lock: sha1:5ZwNjRH14E8fCnkb/4pEavyM1EE= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120312 Thunderbird/11.0 In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.mobile.android:33613 On 24/08/2016 08:56, Timreason wrote: > It seems that various devices, including the Nexus 7 (2013) Asus tablet > will not get an upgrade to Nougat. > > I read elsewhere that Google wants to maximise uptake of the new software. > > Contradictory? I think so. If they're so keen, why not offer the upgrade > to Google Nexus devices that are only 3 years old and still one of the > best 7" tablets? > > There seems to be no new 7" tablet from them, so even upgrading by > buying a new device seems to require buying either a 5" tiddler > 'phablet' or an enormous 9" one. I like the 7" tablet as it's small > enough for a jacket pocket, and big enough to enjoy using. > > Any other way of getting Nougat for a Nexus 7? Perhaps Asus might offer it? > > Tim. My Nexus 10 is the same age, and I haven't even been offered Android 6 - so there seems little hope of getting 7. It would really benefit from dual windows, too - much more so than devices with smaller screens. -- Cheers, Roger ____________ Please reply to Newsgroup. Whilst email address is valid, it is seldom checked.