Elephone are really close to release the Android 7.1.1 Nougat OTA update for the Elephone S7. The Chinese company say you can expect to see it hitting your phones from May 29 to June 7th.
In the meanwhile, Elephone have already made the ROM publicly available on their website, but you shouldn’t try flashing it unless you know what you’re doing as you might end up bricking your phone.
Elephone say they did not find any major bugs, but the ROM is not at its final stage yet, so if you decide to give it a try please report any bugs on their official forum. Also thanks to your feedback Elephone will be able to fix these bugs and finally release the OTA update to everybody else as soon as possible.
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Some new features you’re getting on Android Nougat:
- Circular icons
- App Shortcuts for more convenient using
- Commit Content API, more funny in communicating
- Storage manager to help free up storage space
Here are some images of the ROM running on the phone:
You can find the Elephone S7 Android 7.1.1 ROM here, if you don’t actually own the phone you can purchase one on AliExpress for $179.99 (4GB/64GB).
