topic Re: About Android O in Android TV

About Android O

zlays84 — Mon, 26 Feb 2018 21:00:13 GMT

Hello is there any plans on updating 2017 Android Bravias to Android Oreo?

This is much better than what we have now...

https://youtu.be/AOijyUAVQTw

Re: About Android O

jumpsuit — Tue, 27 Feb 2018 09:05:57 GMT

Hi @zlays84

I am just going to double check this and will get back to you

Cheers

Re: About Android O

jumpsuit — Tue, 27 Feb 2018 09:11:09 GMT

Hi again

The answer is 'Yes', however when is still unknown

currently.

Cheers

Re: About Android O

zlays84 — Tue, 27 Feb 2018 10:39:56 GMT

Okay cool so this is then conifirmed we are getting Android 8.0 on our TV's!

Great!

Re: About Android O

jumpsuit — Tue, 27 Feb 2018 12:33:46 GMT

Yes

Support lasts a couple of years after a model's release

so the 2017 sets are definately included.

Re: About Android O

Kuschelmonschter — Wed, 28 Feb 2018 12:05:04 GMT

My TV from 2016 is still on Marshmallow. Support is far from good...

Official word is that Sony will put Oreo on 2018 TVs. No word on 2017 and earlier TVs so far.

Re: About Android O

zlays84 — Wed, 28 Feb 2018 12:14:30 GMT

Well that would suck if true but still can we take this confirmation kinda official...the man said YES!

Re: About Android O

jumpsuit — Wed, 28 Feb 2018 13:18:30 GMT

Hiya

Re: About Android O

Kuschelmonschter — Wed, 28 Feb 2018 13:51:10 GMT

You can find the official info here.

Sony confirmed to us at CES that it is currently working on bringing Android version 8.0, also known as Android Oreo, to its TVs. The company also said that it has shortened development time between major updates. That may be true but considering that Android 8 was released in August 2017, consumers should still arm themselves with patience in the future.

Sony confirmed that Oreo will be made available to the 2018 models but the company did not want to go into specifics about timing or the rest of the line-up yet.

Hardly anybody over at Sony knows what the actual plan is. Most of the time you get very contradicting information. Just look at the late Dolby Vision disaster. So I would take the above info by @jumpsuit with a grain of salt...

Re: About Android O

jumpsuit — Wed, 28 Feb 2018 14:36:47 GMT

@Kuschelmonschter

Can I just clarify that you are calling me a liar?

Re: About Android O

Kuschelmonschter — Wed, 28 Feb 2018 14:38:56 GMT

That‘s just so far from what I wrote...

Re: About Android O

Itom86 — Fri, 02 Mar 2018 12:15:40 GMT

As far as i know, the 2018 models still run with the same SoC, as the late 2016 models. Is it possible, that they will release the update for all models at the same time? They did the same with the 7.0 (Nougat)

Re: About Android O

Kuschelmonschter — Fri, 02 Mar 2018 12:42:04 GMT

Might be the exact same firmware image for all those TVs, yes. I haven't yet seen a firmware image for 2018 TVs though.