After over six months, Google has finally released new usage share statistics for the different versions of its Android operating system. Android 9.0 Pie is now on 10.4% of all Google Play devices.
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Lenovo is releasing a software update for the Moto Z3 today, bringing the latest version of Android, 9.0 Pie, and support for the 5G Moto Mod. It has security patches through January 1.
Today, Huawei announced that EMUI 9.0, its skin of Android 9.0 Pie, is ready to roll out globally to the Mate 10, Mate 10 Pro, P20, P20 Pro, Honor Play, Honor View 10, and Honor 10.
Google has published its latest Android platform usage stats that show Android 8.x Nougat now on almost a quarter of active devices and Pie 9.0 still scrounging for 0.1% usage to get on the charts.
Not only will Google's shiny new Pixel 3 handsets come with Android Pie's gesture navigation support turned on by default, there will be no way to disable it to use the older button-only interface.
Sony is known to update most of its flagship devices to the latest versions of Android for quite some time, and the company has now shared a list of devices that will receive Android Pie.
Following last week's release of Android 9 Pie, Google is now announcing what's new in the Go edition of the operating system, which is found on low-end smartphones such as the Nokia 1.
Although it will take quite some time, Motorola has announced that it will be bringing Android 9.0 Pie to a handful of its current handsets. The update will arrive sometime in the fall.
While Google's Android 9.0 Pie update brought many improvements and features to the OS, it also managed to break the phone's fast charging capabilities when connected to third-party chargers.
HTC has announced that several of its more recent handsets will be receiving the Android 9.0 Pie update. While this is good news, the firm did not go into detail about when these updates would arrive.
HMD Global has announced the availability of the latest generation of its budget Nokia smartphones, the Nokia 2.1, 3.1 and 5.1 in India and the devices would be going on sale starting from August 12.
HMD Global has started rolling out one last beta build of Android Pie to its Nokia 7 Plus before the official release, keeping up with its positive track record for timely Android updates.
Google today announced that the next version of Android will be Android 9 Pie. It's available to download for eligible Google Pixel devices right now, with other devices coming later.
