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Nougat is finally here for your Nexus

Google's newest version of Android OS 7.0, also known as Nougat, arrives in its first official form today.

Nougat, which many people have been playing with in a public beta since May, adds a number of new features to Android. Multi-window multitasking, extra battery-saving modes, baked-in support for Google's upcoming VR platform called Daydream and a bunch of new emoji are part of the changes. You can find out the details via our in-depth rundown.

There is, as always, a catch: The vast majority of Android users won't get Nougat on their device for weeks, if not months.
It's being pushed to Nexus devices first. The Nexus 6, Nexus 5X, Nexus 6P, Nexus 9, Nexus Player, Pixel C and General Mobile 4G (Android One) will get pushed over-the-air updates in "the coming weeks." Any device enrolled in Google's Android Beta program will be automatically upgraded to the final version as well.

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Improving The Nexus 6P?

To date, 2016 has been one of the best years in recent memory for Android. Samsung and LG have both come to the space with truly awesome flagships in the form of the LG G5 and the Samsung Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 EDGE. Imaging. Processing power. Design. Features. Specs. Hardware — everything looks, performs and feels as if it is right out on the bleeding edge once again. I am convinced this is why Apple’s iPhone sale are flatlining. The iPhone 6s range just looks remedial next to modern Android handsets.

Last year’s Nexus phone — the Nexus 6P — was easily one of the best releases of the year and an excellent entry for Huawei in the mobile history books. Everything was on point with that handset, from the way it looked, right down to overall performance and processing power. Hell, it even had a decent camera. And that was unheard of in the Nexus space until 2015.

This year’s range, then, have quite an act to follow; beating the Nexus 6P is not going to be easy. But what the Nexus 2016 phones do have going from them is pretty compelling. Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 820 is awesomely powerful and provides huge improvements to connectivity, imaging and overall performance. This is why cameras like the one of the G5 are possible.

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Nexus Sailfish's specs

Despite being fairly close to launch there still aren't all that many leaks surrounding the new Nexus handsets, but most of what we have heard is in agreement, including a new benchmark for the smaller Nexus Sailfish.

According to an AnTuTu listing spotted by TimesNews, the Nexus Sailfish has a Snapdragon 820 processor, an Adreno 530 GPU and 4GB of RAM.

That RAM amount has popped up already in a previous benchmark, while a Snapdragon 820 chip has been suggested by both a benchmark and a leaked build.prop file, so with this benchmark now added into the mix those core specs are looking likely.

That would put it in line with most other 2016 flagships, like the LG G5, HTC 10 and US versions of the Samsung Galaxy S7 and Samsung Galaxy Note 7.

The AnTuTu listing reveals a few other things too, including the presence of Android Nougat, which we're fully expecting, 32GB of built in storage and a 1080 x 1920 screen.

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Google Nexus not made by HTC?

Rumors indicate that Chinese device maker Huawei could end up assembling the Google Nexus 2016 flagship phone and the chief reason is, Taiwan's HTC has decided to back out of the coveted project. A new report claims that in skipping the next Nexus, HTC is actually protecting its flagship HTC 10.
A news article published by the Daily Sun claimed that sales trajectory of the HTC 10 is heading north and to keep that trend, the struggling device maker is likely to pass up on the Nexus 2016 project. Recent reports said that Google has inked a deal with HTC for the latter to produce two Pure Android handsets this year - a mid-range variant and a premium edition that will largely replicate the Nexus 2015 release last year.
However, the project would not push through after all with HTC belatedly realizing that a Nexus smartphone that mirror the design, build, specs and features of its current flagship "would cannibalize the sales of the HTC 10." The report added that given a choice between the HTC 10 and a Nexus counterpart that runs on stock Android, buyers might skip the original in favor of the Google-sanctioned device.
Naturally, HTC dreads such a scenario and would want to prevent it from happening so the best decision is to allow others to pick up on the Nexus project from Google.
Google and Huawei, HTC including, have yet to comment on the matter but speculations are rife that the sequel to last year's Pure Android device will touchdown at around the same time that Android N is ready to rock and roll with uncompressed Google Photo storage as among the exclusive features for Nexus device.

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