Android Nougat 7.1 and the list of devices that will receive the new OS

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Here are some features of Android 7.1. Find out if your smartphone is among those that can use Google's latest OS.
New Android devices came out this year, followed by a new Operating System. Google released the Android Nougat 7.1, a promising OS for new and upgrading devices, and a lot of techies and consumers want to know what it offers.

LG V20 became the first OEM to come out of the box with a Nougat OS. And a couple of weeks ago, Google released the much-awaited Pixel smartphones that already have an updated 7.1 Nougat. If you were among the thousands to purchas the phone, you might have noticed some changes and features of the OS.

The first thing you might have noticed is the circular app icons compared with the square-like icons of Marshmallow.

App Shortcuts
This is the most obvious user-facing feature of Android 7.1. As of the moment, first-party Google apps are the only ones to support them. The shortcuts are accessible from both the launcher and app drawer. They can be dragged out as individual homescreen icons for much quicker access but they cannot be reordered.

Image keyboard
It appears that this is limited to the Messenger app. The Google keyboard cannot place GIF images on other apps, including Gmail. But if you downloaded the developer preview on Nexus 6P and 5X or Pixel C, you can try to bring it up by going to messenger app. Then bring up keyboard and then tap on the smiley icon and you should see the new GIF option. As per Android Authority, Google silently added the GIF support just on developers preview.

Night Light
This feature eliminates the blue light emitted by a smartphone's display at night to lessen any possible damage to the retina. And studies show that exposure to blue light before bedtime actually suppresses melatonin,  delaying REM (Rapid Eye Movement) sleep significantly.

(More feature updates to come on the new Android N)

Below is a list of Android Devices that will get the latest Android OS.

Motorola
Earlier, Motorola announced that the Moto G4 and G4 plus are now rolling out the update, making the company the first to do so.

List of other Motorola devices that will get the new update
Moto G (4th Gen), G plus (4th Gen), G Play (4th Gen)
Moto X Pure Edition, X play, X style, X force
Droid Turbo 2
Droid Maxx
Moto Z, Z Droid, Z Force Droid, Z Play, Z Play Droid

Nexus
The Nexus line belongs to the first series of phones that received the update from Google as it was first released in August. The Techtimes reports, however, that Nexus 6P and 5X users started to face problems after upgrading their OS. Aside from these two phones, below is a list of devices with the option to upgrade as well.

Nexus 6
Pixel C
Nexus 9
Nexus Player
General Mobile 4G

LG
Last August, consumers in South Korea got to test the beta of the latest OS on LG G5, but for limited users. This led to some techies speculating that the LG G5 might get the update first. However, that was not the case.

List of LG devices that will get the update: No specific date of release

LG V20 (Will get the update 7.1)
LG G5
LG G4 (expected to get the update but not confirmed)
LG V10
LG G3  (expected to get the update but not confirmed)

Samsung
Samsung hasn't been known to roll out updates early, but we hope this year, the company will release the new OS to these devices before 2016 ends.

Galaxy S7 and S7 edge
Galaxy Note 5
Galaxy S6, S6 edge, S6 edge+

Sony
List of Sony devices that will get the Nougat. Date of release is not yet known.
Xperia Z5
Xperia Z5 Compact
Xperia Z5 Permium
Xperia Z4 Tablet
Xperia Z3+
Xperia X
Xperia XA
Xperia XA Ultra
Xperia X performance

HTC (No specific date of release)
HTC 10
HTC 10 Lifestyle
One A9
One M9

Asus (No specific date of release)
Zenfone 3, 3 Deluxe, 3 Ultra
Zenfone 2

OnePlus (No specific date of release)
OnePlus 4 (yet to be released)
OnePlus3
OnePlus 2

Xiaomi (No specific date of release)
As of the moment, only one device is expected to get the latest OS, although not confirmed.
Xiaomi Mi5
We might see more devices included, such as the Redmi Note 3, Mi4s, Mi4C, Redmi 2 Prime, Redmi 3/3S/3A, Mi Max, Mi Note/Pro, Mi Pad 2 and Mi4i soon.

Huawei
Huawei has not yet announced any devices that will get the new OS. But what we expect is that the Mate 8 could receive it.