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The feature starts rolling out on Android Auto now, reaches cars with Google built in over the coming months, and is switched off by default until drivers connect their apps.
Play services v26.41 also brings call-time app checks to Android 15 and earlier and new Find Hub tag features, and it reaches phones over the next couple of weeks.
The rollout began October 15 and should reach phones within about a week, with a richer "Be Ready" alert to follow in the coming months.
Sony says its own testing found the phone cannot deliver an adequate Android 17 experience. Security updates remain promised for four years.
The Android 17 based update starts with the Find X9 and OnePlus 15 families and runs in batches to early 2027. Oppo has not published an India calendar.
The stable update reached Samsung's 2024 flagships about a month after the Galaxy S26, and has started arriving in India.
The stable build arrives on October 12 after roughly seven weeks of open beta, and brings the redesigned launcher and a Micrographics clock face that the beta left out.
The October 9 bug-fix build also fixes failing HTTPS downloads and returns the Pixel 11 series to the beta, ahead of a stable release expected in December.
The roughly 4.1GB update is reaching US owners in stages. Motorola has not said which regions follow or whether every feature it previewed is in this build.
Every other supported Pixel has had QPR1 since September. The Pixel 11 range got two small fixes in October, and the reasons for the gap are unknown.
The update covers around 25 Pixel models with a small list of fixes for audio, the keyboard and photo orientation, and it closes the five-year support window for the 2021 flagships.
Play Store 53.5 labels AI-generated images in India with specific exceptions, while Play services 26.39 tweaks Find Hub tags and Wallet notifications. Rollout is gradual.
Google's first beta of the next quarterly release focuses on stability, fixing audio, NFC, fingerprint, eSIM and Wi-Fi faults. Stable is expected in early 2027.
The Android 17 update reached unlocked US units first after a Korean rollout in late September, and has since expanded to carrier models. India has no confirmed date for the S25 line.
The base Magic9 keeps the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 to hold its price at 4,999 yuan, while the 6,499-yuan Pro Max gets the new Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6.
Swiping left now shows timestamps for the whole thread, replies move to a right swipe, and a floating long-press menu finally lets users copy part of a message.
Zimperium's zLabs found a banking trojan that abuses Accessibility and Wireless Debugging, lets an AI drive the phone, and reinstalls itself after removal.
The Android 17 update reached the Galaxy S26 series in South Korea on September 16, the US on September 23 and India around September 29, with on-device scam and privacy alerts.
The budget K-series phone launched on September 16 in a single 4GB and 64GB model, with a six-year battery durability claim, a 6.75-inch 120Hz LCD and IP64 rating.
SMR Sep-2026 Release 1 fixes two critical image decoder flaws found by Google Project Zero that a crafted image could trigger without any user action.
