Sony to begin Android Nougat rollout in October starting with the Xperia XZ and X Performance

Sony is no longer a popular Android smartphone choice due to its high price points and declining sales. Nonetheless the company is still managing to launch new smartphones every year and recently it announced the new Xperia X Compact and Xperia XZ . If you are a loyal Sony smartphone customer, you will be happy to know that the company will begin rolling out the latest Android 7.0 Nougat update for its devices very soon. According to a leaked slide of a presentation, we now have info about the devices as well as the timeframe of the rollout.  The slide reveals that the Xperia X Performance and the newly launched Xperia XZ will be the first ones to receive the update somewhere around October. The next in line will be the Xperia X and X Compact which are marked to get the update in November. In December, the Xperia Z5 series, the Xperia Z3+, and the Z4 tablet will get the new update. Lastly, the Xperia XA and XA Ultra will receive the update in early 2017. The new Android 7.0 update comes with improved, informative and richer notifications, multi-window support, better battery management through Doze, new quick setting toggles, a range new emoticons, new animations, a data saver mode, more informative settings and a bunch of tweaks and fixes.