Don’t Ditch Your Galaxy S7, Give It an (Android 8.0) Oreo

Android: It’s been reasonably of over two years for the reason that birth of Samsung’s Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge. May ought to you’re restful keeping on to yours, you’re doubtlessly itching to toughen to a new map—especially since Samsung restful hasn’t updated either S7 smartphone to Android eight.zero Oreo. Don’t toss your older map preferrred but, though; your cookie could be here sooner than you deem.

A in model update on Samsung’s Korean web site (by SamMobile) confirms that the corporate is “doing its best” to salvage Android eight.zero on the Galaxy S7 by mid-May presumably also honest. This follows a identical impart from Samsung Turkey that the Oreo update would come on May presumably also honest 18. Most promising of all, the Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge had been both lately certified by the Wi-Fi Alliance working Android eight.zero firmware.

Android’s Oreo updatae adds a bunch of notable parts, together being able to snooze or pin notifications and more establish watch over over the form of push indicators you receive. Samsung has furthermore integrated a new keyboard with constructed-in GIF search and the newest emoji, as well to the ability to veil albums in the default Gallery app as share of its Oreo update for more moderen devices.

Clearly, it’s seemingly that Android eight.zero for the Galaxy S7 could salvage delayed again, nonetheless a mid-May presumably also honest update is calling extraordinarily doubtless preferrred now. With success, it’ll breathe reasonably of extra life into your legacy smartphone.