Nokia 7.1 Updated to Android 9 Pie Ahead of Possible Indian Release

HMD Global has started seeding Android 9 Pie update to its latest mid-range smartphone, the Nokia 7.1. Although the phone is not yet released in India, we’re expecting it to go official at the company’s December 6 event. Furthermore, the company will be releasing Android 9 Pie to the Nokia 8 and Nokia 8 Sirocco as the final testing is going on currently. Notably, the Nokia 7.1 is the fourth smartphone from HMD Global to receive the Android 9 Pie update, and no other smartphone company (except for Google) has four devices running the latest iteration of Android. It’s indeed a great achievement from the Finnish company because in a very short span it has established a name for itself in the industry. The other Nokia smartphones running Android 9 Pie are Nokia 7 Plus, Nokia 6.1 Plus and the Nokia 6.1.

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Nokia 7.1 Android 9 Pie Update: What’s New?

Like all the Nokia smartphones, the 7.1 is also an Android One handset, meaning it boots clean version of Android. The stockish version of Android is allowing HMD Global to push the software updates faster than any other company. Coming to the Nokia 7.1, HMD is rolling out the update in the promised timeline of November 2018 release. The company also promised to update Nokia 8 and Nokia 8 Sirocco to Android 9 Pie by the end of December.

Talking about the features added by this update, it ships with a new interface, gesture navigation, adaptive battery, adaptive brightness, App Actions, App Slices, Digital Wellbeing and other Android 9 Pie features Google introduced. As noted, the Nokia 7.1 is available in some European markets, but it could land in India as early as the first week of December. The Nokia 7.1 could be the first phone from HMD Global to run Android 9 Pie out of the box and also one of the first smartphones in the industry.