Android Oreo Update For Galaxy J7 (2016) Delayed Until November, 2022

Samsung gets a bad rap for a lethargic update schedule of its Android smartphones and tablets, and not without reason. Most of the flagship devices from the company accept their own sweet fourth dimension to go updates, while mid-rangers and entry-level devices often struggle to get any more the odd Android version update, and that too, after it's already deprecated past a new version from Google.

While the time-tabular array may non get any faster only notwithstanding, the Southward Korean consumer electronics giant is now expected to whorl out two Android updates to its mush-maligned J-series devices in an try, possibly, to ameliorate compete with the likes of Xiaomi, who's supporting its devices with fairly regular (if frustratingly belatedly) updates even years after their launch.

While Android Pie has already been out for weeks at present, Samsung is seemingly working on an Oreo update for its 2-year-former Galaxy J7 (2017), reportedly making it the beginning Milky way J-serial device to receive 2 major version updates. The device was originally shipped with Android half dozen.0 Marshmallow out-of-the-box, and has since been updated to Android 7.0 Nougat.

The original confirmation well-nigh the Galaxy J7 (2016) receiving Android Oreo came via Samsung'south Members app, which recently fabricated the Oreo update schedule official. Curiously, though, while the listing originally said that the device will receive the Oreo update in March 2019, the company is now believed to have pushed back the update schedule to November, 2019, by which fourth dimension, Oreo will exist more than than two years old!

Android Oreo Update For Galaxy J7 (2016) Delayed Until November, 2019 — Image Courtesy: SamMobile

It'southward also worth noting that by November 2019, Google will have already unveiled Android Q in all its glory, while most other manufacturers will have long finished rolling out Android Pie to their respective devices. Given how lackadaisical Samsung has been with updates, SamMobile is even speculating that the company may not even actually get around to updating the device at all.