{"id":149784,"date":"2025-09-17T13:13:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T13:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/149784\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T13:13:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T13:13:15","slug":"what-world-is-this-sony-just-beat-a-bunch-of-brands-to-stable-android-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/149784\/","title":{"rendered":"What world is this? Sony just beat a bunch of brands to stable Android 16."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=\"e_3g\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\"  title=\"Sony Xperia 1 VII standing on desk\"  alt=\"Sony Xperia 1 VII standing on desk\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Sony-Xperia-1-VII-standing-on-desk.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Robert Triggs \/ Android Authority<\/p>\n<p>TL;DR<\/p>\n<p>Sony has quietly brought stable Android 16 to its Xperia 1 VII.<br \/>\nThe manufacturer has beaten several other major brands to the punch with this move.<br \/>\nThis also comes months after Sony finally offered a more respectable update policy for its flagship phones.<\/p>\n<p>Sony doesn\u2019t have the best reputation for software updates, as it has long offered terrible <a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/phone-update-policies-1658633\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">update policies<\/a> for its phones. That changed with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/sony-xperia-1-vii-review-3585375\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Xperia 1 VII<\/a> earlier this year, and now there\u2019s more good news. The 2025 flagship has just received the stable Android 16 update.<\/p>\n<p> Don\u2019t want to miss the best from Android Authority?<\/p>\n<p>Redditors <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/SonyXperia\/comments\/1ni9sqk\/1_vii_android_16_is_here\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">reported<\/a> that their Xperia 1 VII phones were indeed getting the stable <a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/android-16-features-3484159\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Android 16<\/a> update. The update is roughly 1.1GB and has version number 71.1.A.2.68. It doesn\u2019t seem like Sony is offering a changelog, though.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"e_3g\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"  title=\"Sony Xperia 1 VII Android 16 2 Mirrormaster85\"  alt=\"Sony Xperia 1 VII Android 16 2 Mirrormaster85\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Sony-Xperia-1-VII-Android-16-2-Mirrormaster85.jpg\"\/><img class=\"e_3g\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"  title=\"Sony Xperia 1 VII Android 16 1 Mirrormaster85\"  alt=\"Sony Xperia 1 VII Android 16 1 Mirrormaster85\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Sony-Xperia-1-VII-Android-16-1-Mirrormaster85.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, this news means Sony has beaten many rival brands to releasing the stable Android 16 update. This includes OPPO, OnePlus, Xiaomi, vivo, and HONOR. In fact, it also comes a couple of days after Samsung pushed out Android 16 to the Galaxy S25 series.<\/p>\n<p>We hope this is a sign of things to come for the Japanese manufacturer and that it doesn\u2019t delay in bringing Android 16 to older flagships and mid-range devices. It also comes after Sony promised that the Xperia 1 VII would receive four major OS upgrades and six years of security patches.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for being part of our community. 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