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Well-known gaming brand Razer has released an Android phone with killer specs, including world-first 120Hz "Ultramotion" Quad HD screen, 8GB RAM, Dolby Atmos speakers, 4000mAh battery and much more.

A new kids smartwatch, the MT30, and new Alcatel Androids, the A7 and Idol 5S among others, have launched at IFA 2017, and are coming to Australia “in the latter stages of 2017 and early 2018".

Striking deeply into the profit margins of its competitors is Kogan, whose new flagship running Android OS 7.0 is coming in at a pre-order cost of just $199.

 Moto, a Lenovo company, has announced that the Australian rollout of Android Nougat 7.0 is happening.

Samsung has started its Android 7.0 Nougat rollout with the Galaxy S7 and Edge. It plans to also upgrade the GS6/Edge/Edge+, Galaxy Note 5, Galaxy Tab A with S Pen, Galaxy Tab S2, Galaxy A3 and A8.

Google has mandated even more “compliance” by device makers with the release of its updated Android 7.1 Compatibility Definition document that says device implementations must meet the requirements and must pass the Compatibility Test Suite or users will be told it is “uncertified” when accessing the Google Play Store.

Ever since Androids release in 2007 it has suffered horribly from growing fragmentation – different versions on tens of thousands of different devices – and gained an unintended reputation as a security disaster. Android 7.x Nougat is where Google must draw a line in the sand if Android is to thrive.

Although no new phone ships with it yet, early reviews say Android 7 Nougat is not a major update that you need to covet.

A vulnerability in the transmission control protocol used by the Linux kernel, discovered by researchers at the University of California, Riverside, affects most Android phones in use, the security firm Lookout says.

Google has finally named the next version of Android, previously codenamed N, and while the name Nutella has been knocked out, Nougat got in.