Nokia 7 Plus' Android Pie update delayed

Ro, 26 September 2018

HMD Global promised to deliver the final and stable Android 9.0 Pie update to the Nokia 7 Plus this month but we are in the final week of September and there's still no OTA update.

Juho Sarvikas explained the delay in a tweet. It seems that some certification issues needed to be cleared, and the developers are now doing a final round of testing before the stable software comes out.

#Android Pie 🥧for #Nokia 7 plus met with a couple of tricky platform specific certification bugs. We've got them now and are running final round of tests for quality assurance. Apologies for the delay. Like you know from Beta Labs, stability is there #nokiamobile
— Juho Sarvikas (@sarvikas) September 26, 2018

This means that the Pie OTA update could arrive right on schedule or worst case scenario - at the beginning of the next month. It's better to wait a little longer for all the issues to be ironed out than a half-baked release, right?

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Reader comments

sadh
28 Sep 2018
61w

No, current Android One program wont get update directly from Google. At first, yes. But as time goes by, Google changed the policy so the updates still comes from the oem. But, it's just a certificate from Google to guarantee your device getting goo...

Anonymous
27 Sep 2018
IV8

Because this is NOKIA.. Unlike Apple with their hellish iOS9 update full of bugs

Kangal
27 Sep 2018
RN8

Not only fast, the updates were supposed to come direct from Google. Looks like another lie from the "Do No Evil" company, just like they did with the AndroidWear platform. And because of that track-record I can now expect the AndroidOne (formerly kn...