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Google Is Rolling Out Android 7.1.1 (engadget.com)
Google is rolling out Android 7.1.1 for Pixel and Nexus smartphones, including the Nexus 6, Nexus 5X, Nexus 6P, Nexus 9, Pixel, Pixel XL, Nexus Player, Pixel C and General Mobile 4G (Android One). You can download it over-the-air when it becomes available "over the next several weeks" or flash it yourself. Engadget details some of the new features found in Android 7.1.1:
As for what you can find from a feature perspective, Google has added support for its "image keyboard" that lets you easily find and send pictures and GIFs without leaving your messaging app of choice. Google says it'll work inside of Hangouts, Allo, and the default Messaging app. Ironically enough, the feature has been available in the Gboard iOS keyboard that Google launched in the spring, but it's good to see it coming to more Android phones now. Android 7.1.1 also includes Google's latest set of more diverse emoji, specifically focused on showing a "wider range of professions" for women. And it also contains the excellent app shortcut feature that originally launched on the Pixel -- if you press and hold on an app's icon, a sub-menu of shortcuts will show up. You'll be able to quickly send a message to a specific contact or navigate to a saved location using these shortcuts, for example. They're very much like the "force touch" shortcuts found on the iPhone, but that doesn't make them any less useful.
Can't wait to upgrade to it in 1.5 years! I'll go mark my calendar now....
Still running a phone with 4.4.
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never feel satisfied with android.
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thanks, but no thanks
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Androids got > 99 problems, but woman's emojiis isnt one of them.
I don't care. My previous phone, a Huawei Mate2, was "stuck on" jellybean 4.3 for over a year before they pushed out (skipping KK) to 5.1 Oh there were betas, cooked roms and what not, but I stuck with 4.3, because my phone worked perfectly. No problems. In fact, I probably would have left it on 4.3, had Huawei not had an easy way to push it back to 4.3, from 5.1. 5.1 was very stable. My new phone (about 3 months ago) a Huawei Mate8, came with 6.0MM. Huawei says 7.0N will come to it around the 1st Qtr of 2017, but, even if they don't, won't matter. It's very stable, and I never have any issues. I use 1500-2000 minutes on the phone per month, tons of web, mp3's, photos, what not and not one issue. All apps run, no FC's. As long as a device is suppose to run as intended, I don't give a flip about what OS is on it.
I bet people will enjoy it when it finally makes its way into the hands of the public in several years' time. Right now, only 0.4% of Android users are on Android 7. For comparison, 1.2% of Android users are still on Android 2.3, released exactly 6 years ago today, and 24% of Android users are still on Android 4.4, released over three years ago.
I look forward to never seeing it released for my phone. AND I HAVE A NEXUS 6P.
Because despite the misleading article saying Google is releasing it for Nexus phones, the carrier still needs to test and release it (unless you want to download and manually install a ROM and completely wipe your phone) - and my carrier still has not released 7.0 for fucks sake. And for the record, I did manually install 7.1 through the Beta program on it - and promptly lost access to LTE on my carrier.
why not go to a better alternitive if they are going that direction.
Android fragmentation. I'm thinking my next phone will be an iPhone.
Either we should have male and female options for every profession emoji, or emojis should lack gender.
I'm still on 6.0.1 on my Google Fi Nexus 6. I've been getting the monthly security updates, but have seen neither hide nor hair of 7.anything for my phone. Keep in mind the Nexus 6 was supposed to get 7.0 in October, and it's now December...
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Waiting for Samsung to provide v7 on its Galaxy S6 edge. :P
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Since Android 4.3 there has not been any real improvements on the OS. All they have done is remove customization features and make the UI dumber and dumber. They have also promptly removed API's that allow 3rd party applications to compete with Google. And of course, each new OS version force installs a bunch of new google's crapware which can not uninstalled. Quite likely there are not too many Google customers who actually want OS upgrades anymore. If only they had a stable version of Android OS, which did not get any of their "improvements", just security and other bug fixes.
So unfortunately, I have no fucks to give.
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Wish they'd fucking fix "OK Google" for fuck's sake.
I expected Samsung to be faster than this at following updates.
Would there be any way to make Google itself update the Android installed on a smartphone without the need of support from the smartphone manufacturer? Maybe put an intermediate layer between the hardware and the operating system to deal with the drivers specific to each model? Or change the Android kernel so that it somehow identifies the available hardware and then downloads or compiles the necessary drivers? Because depending on the manufacturer of the equipment has became clearly wrong since the manufacturer no longer have the slightest interest in updating the installed software after the device leaves the store.
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I have my Nexus 6P on Project Fi. Love it. The billing is simple, much cheaper than what I was paying for T-Mobile, and the coverage is much improved. Oh, and I get all updates first.
Oh this is just great. Just keep adding useless stuff, but then don't do anything of value and remove useful features. Android has been going downhill since Android 4, as it is now Android as an app platform is useless since more and more features have been removed.
Who cares about emojis? 7.1 has major glitches that needed to be addressed.
It's not like the Android "community" is going to use it. You see, cellphones aren't getting better, so we hold on to our phones. Our carriers and cellphone makers won't update our phones. If we update our phones it breaks the warranty.
Cellphones are just supposed to be disposable crap we purchase in infatuation, and throw in the trash when we discover there's no racing stripe on our model.
Cellphone usability sucks. Every tried to get stuff done on a cellphone. It has all the power of the 2000 computer, with all the UI design of a Ouija board.
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Android is a great product. Because of it's openness it's been adopted around the world beating many other mobile OS. Do U like to facebook, use twitter and the Internet? Yes to Android.
I think Android should use a different Programming Language other than Java. Maybe Golang or something else.
Android should also incorporate Desktop Features for multitasking and multiApps. Maybe Remix can be the next Desktop OS in conjunction with support from Android.
"Google Is Rolling Out Android 7.1.1"
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