Android 7.0 Nougat: all the new features

posted by Daniel P. / Aug 23, 2016, 8:17 AM

Android 7.0 Nougat: all the new features

Google took us by surprise with a sudden announcement of the next Android version back in March, and fast forward five months, the Android 7.0 Nougat release is already available to install on your Nexus device.

While it might not spook the mobile industry to the core, it is certainly intriguing that the new 7.0 version, codenamed Nougat, is hitting Nexus handsets while the phones running Android 6.0 Marshmallow are still barely in the double digits of market share. If one of Google's aims was to show the value of the Nexus brand of phones, that's certainly been achieved too, as those are the only handsets that you can toy around on with two Android versions almost nobody has yet.

Are there any other new features except the ones that were present in the developer preview? Well, check out most of the final new features in Android 7.0 Nougat that are fit to print in the slideshow below.

Android 7.0 Nougat - all the new features

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68 Comments

1. vincelongman

Posts: 5653; Member since: Feb 10, 2013

Pleasantly surprised by the inclusion of Display calibration and Screen zoom Since those are features basically only enthusiasts

posted on Mar 10, 2016, 4:23 AM 39

17. zeeBomb

Posts: 2318; Member since: Aug 14, 2014

Android N slowly becoming a refined CyanogenMod. Awesome.

posted on Mar 10, 2016, 8:26 AM 28

24. vincelongman

True Google is removing reasons for me to root, install xposed or flash custom ROMs

posted on Mar 11, 2016, 12:22 AM 12

68. kabel

Posts: 146; Member since: Nov 06, 2011

There is no "Calibrate Display" option on my 6P. Is PhoneArena doing copy and paste from previous articles?!?!

posted on Aug 23, 2016, 3:54 PM 0

69. kabel

There is no night mode as well. Toooooooo lazy to check PA?

posted on Aug 23, 2016, 3:58 PM 0

2. swarai

Posts: 84; Member since: Aug 07, 2014

Lol, because I have been using a custom rom I feel like a lot of these features are old.

posted on Mar 10, 2016, 4:25 AM 7

5. Nathan_ingx

Posts: 4769; Member since: Mar 07, 2012

I'm sure they are. But all these baked into one version without the need to install a custom ROM is better.

posted on Mar 10, 2016, 4:49 AM 34

10. abdoualgeria

Posts: 928; Member since: Jul 27, 2015

The good thing about ripping is native support, native support means lesser bloatware.

posted on Mar 10, 2016, 5:36 AM 4

39. epdm2be

Posts: 818; Member since: Apr 20, 2012

as they're even implemented by a lot of manufacturors in their own launchers etc... I'm only interested in screen "12. The Nightman cometh", there's a use dark theme option. I want THAT to work. Because I find this white infused FUgly. Then there's the bigger powerdrain of white on AMOled screens. Besides if they'd used more black or a darker UI then they wouldn't need "a night mode" in the first place. Sometimes those idiots create more problems with on thing and then patch and keep on patching instead of just doing it right from the start!