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Chocolate Factory exudes Nougat as Android 7 begins rollout

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Chocolate Factory excludes Nougat from 2 year old smartphones

It is a big deception of 'Do no Evil' Google advising people to 'avoid fragmentation buy their Nexus smartphones' and then fragment their 2 year old models for either fragment or landfill !

I agree with earlier posts "Not buying it. Nexus 5 has a quad core 2.2GHz processor and 2GB RAM. Even if...."

"Google says Nougat has 250 improvements" : Perhaps a few of those improvements, like dual windows, may cause a noticeable slowdown, but dual windows not useful on smaller models. But a vast majority of those improvement, security, longer battery life, easier user interface, WILL benefit 2 year old models. A Tachradar review only a year ago said "Part of the reason that the interface is so accessible is the speed. The Nexus 5 is a top performer. It has a 2.3GHz Snapdragon 800 with an Adreno 330 GPU and 2GB of RAM." That phone was designed to compete with others able to run demanding games, yet many have no interest in games, just a reliable phone with software kept uptodate with latest security and basic improvements. In case some complained the new features taking most demand of the hardware were wanting, it should not be beyond the wit of Google to tailor newer Android OTA downloads to cut any features causing noticeable performance hits to 2 year old phones, maybe naming the reduced feature version V6.x.

As reviews noted, Nexus 5 and 7 were not cheap models. Excluding customers of 2 year old models from the majority of the 250 improvements IS EVIL.

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